Publications
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The Museum as Experience
(2023)
Museums have long been viewed as exclusive, excluding, and as antiseptic to intimacy. In the past few decades, however, humanized experiences—cultivated by curators, educators, artists, activists, and marketers alike—have ...
The Economics of the Manuscript and Rare Book Trade, ca. 1890–1939
(2024)
The market for rare books has been characterized as unpredictable, and driven by the whims of a small number of rich individuals. Yet behind the headlines announcing new auction records, a range of sources make it possible ...
Using Commonplace Books to Enrich Medieval and Renaissance Courses
(2023)
This book is a collection of essays offering a wide range of approaches to teaching with commonplace books. In the medieval period and beyond, commonplace books promoted a blend of excerpting, memorization, creative writing, ...
Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature
(2024)
How did legal, literary, and scientific discourses intersect to define sexual non-consent in the Middle Ages? How did popular cultural assumptions about sexuality and gender influence actual medieval criminal proceedings? ...
Female Performance and Spectatorship in a Medieval Nunnery
(2024)
Medieval women were active in many performative activities, including plays and ceremonies performed in nunneries. This volume focuses on monastic performances and, in particular, on performances given in the English abbey ...