Current CoursesFall 2009 (current)
- History 118B
Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain: Conquest, Colonization, and Coexistence Winter 2010 (tentative)Spring 2010 (tentative)Department FieldsAnnouncementsThere are no announcements |
Medieval Europe
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2000
Office: HSSB 4217 Fall 2009 Hours: Tuesday 10:30 AM -12 PM
Fax: (805) 893-8795
Email: blumenthal@history.ucsb.edu
Research and Teaching Interests- Medieval Europe
- Medieval and Early Modern Spain
- Cross-Cultural Interaction in the Medieval Mediterranean
- Comparative Slavery
Current Projects- 'Comares': Midwives, wetnurses and the construction of maternity in late medieval and early modern Spain
Selected Publications- Enemies and Familiars: Slavery and Mastery in Fifteenth-Century Valencia
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009)
- "La Casa dels Negres: Black African solidarity in late-medieval Valencia”
in Black Africans in Renaissance Europe edited by K.P. Lowe and Thomas Earl (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
- "Demandes de libertat: Demandas de esclavos en el medievo tardío valenciano”
in Debates y Perspectivas (Madrid, 2004)
- "Defending their Masters' Honour: Slaves as Violent Offenders in Fifteenth-Century Valencia"
in A Great Effusion of Blood?: Interpreting Medieval Violence, edited by Mark Meyerson, Oren Falk, and Daniel Thierry (Toronto: University of Toronto, 2004)
- "Sclaves molt fortes, senyors invalts: Sex, lies, and paternity suits in late medieval Spain”
in Women, Texts and Authority in the Early Modern Spanish World edited by Marta Vicente and Luis Corteguera (Aldershot, England: Ashgate Press, 2003)
Undergraduate and Graduate Courses- History 115P: Proseminar in Medieval History
- History 116: The Civilization of the High Middle Ages: 1050 to 1350
- History 117DR: Directed Readings in Medieval History
- History 118A: The Crusades in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
- History 118B: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain: Conquest, Colonization, and Coexistence
- History 215A-B: Seminar in Medieval History
Honors and Professional Activities- Sargent-Faull Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2003-2004)
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend (2003)
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