This dissertation, Alchemical Fraud in the Middle Ages and Its Reception in Twenty-First Century Videogames, examines medieval criticisms of alchemy as they appear in Mid[...]

This dissertation argues that the chivalric code and resulting "ethos" of chivalry creates a physical, religious, and social burden upon the medieval knights tasked with [...]

This dissertation focuses on medieval and early modern literary uses of blood symbolism to describe and represent these marginalized groups: Christ, women, Jews, and disa[...]

The theme of exile in literature is used to describe several states in which an individual is either cast out of voluntarily leaves his or her community. Rather than exil[...]

In early medieval Western Europe, Joseph, the earthly father of Jesus, was identified occupationally not only as a domestic woodworker but also as a blacksmith, the most [...]

In the Middle Ages, women who wanted to live religious lives were expected to stay in confinement, either by participating in anchoritic life or by staying home with the [...]

This paper confronts the traditionally held motif of the violent, lewd giant in medieval literature to explore giants that resist the normative behavior of their nomencla[...]

Through this study, I identify and ascertain contexts found within the medieval church, specifically focusing on the architectural experience of the Abbey of St.-Denis, a[...]

British literature is rich in stories crafted around the problem of incest. Incest has long been seen as a universal, or near-universal, taboo, yet dynasties have been fo[...]

The aim of this thesis is to de-center Christianity from medieval scholarship in a study of canonized northwestern European war narratives from the late antiquity to the [...]