Rachel Fulton Brown
Department of History
The University of Chicago
MA Theses Advised
1995
· Lisa Hydo, “The Queste del Saint Graal: A Fusion of Pagan and Christian Traditions.” Department of History.
1996
· Anthony Perron,“From Lord to Pastor: Archiepiscopal Change in Denmark, 1178-1224.” Department of History.
· Garry Nokes, “Clerical Oaths and Papal Administrative Authority in the Crusade Tax Collection of 1274.” Department of History.
1998
· Kimberly E. Setze, “Human Agency and Christian Identity in Medieval Exempla Narratives.” Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences.
· Jessie Sherwood, “The Convert and Conversion: The Autobiography of Hermannus quondam Iudaeus.” Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences.
2000
· Genviève Morrill, “Brides of Christ: Virgins and their Vocations. Dialogues on Identity Construction in Two Twelfth-Century Cloisters.” Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences.
2001
· Gretchen Elda Martin (Jones), “Feudalism and Clientship: English-Welsh Political Relations 1150-1200.” Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences.
2002
· John Jacob Diehl, “Monk as God: A Study of Cistercian Anagogy.” Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences.
· Alice Eckstein, “‘And since love never comes to an end, you will not forget me for ever’: Death and Mourning in Cistercian Writing.” Department of History.
· Julian Hendrix, “‘Suscipe domini’: Prayer for the Dead and Intercessory Prayer in Carolingian Monasteries.” Department of History.
· Caryn Elizabeth Hiltz, “The Siege of Malta: Military Myth or Reality.” Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences.
2006
· Caitjan Gainty, “Contextualizing Violence in the Chronicles of the First Crusade: Denial, Accusation, Rationalization…and Acceptance?” Department of History.
· Michael Tomczyk, “Charismatic Liturgical and Devotional Bodies of the Ottonian Empire.” Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences.
· Sarah Marie Kaliski-Roll, “Sir Edmund Beckett’s ‘False Front’: Restoration and Memory at St. Albans Cathedral.” Master of Arts Program in the Humanities.
2007
· Christopher Fletcher, “Holy Urgency: The Epistolary Theology of Gerhoh of Reichersberg.” Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences.
· Roey Moran, "Gerbert of Aurillac and Medieval Literary Magic: A Study into the Links between Magic and the Pursuit of Knowledge.” Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences.
2008
· Erin Elizabeth Chiasson, “Exegesis and mise-en-page: Reading the Eadwine Psalter.” Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences.
· Torsten Edstam, “Ascending to God with the Help of Angels: Liturgical Devotion in the Fourteenth-Century Magical Text the Liber iuratus Honorii.” Department of History.
· Uri Shachar, “Conversion of the Holy Land and the Crusading Soul in William of Tyre’s History of the Deeds Done Beyond the Sea.” Department of History.
2010
· Monika Collins [Crusader sermons]. Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences.
· Allison Drtina [Life of St. Bridget]. Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences.
· Caitlin Koford, “Love and the Catechumen: An Analysis of Augustine’s De Catechizandis Rudibus Liber Unus.” Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences.
· David Friedman [The “ritual murder” of William of Norwich]. Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences.
2012
· Rebecca Harwick, “Language, Knowledge, and Incarnation in Eriugena’s Biblical Exegesis.” Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences.
2015
· Felix Szabo, "Earthly Agents, Heavenly Ministers: Some Issues and Implications of Byzantine All-Eunuch Monasteries." Department of History.
2017
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