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Assistant Dean of Faculty for Pre Major Advising
Adjunct Professor of History, affiliated with Classics
Office: 305 Carpenter Hall
603-646-9280
M.C.Gaposchkin@Dartmouth.EDU
Trained as a medieval historian, my research interests focus on late medieval French cultural history. I have just finished a book on Louis IX (Saint Louis) of France, a king who was canonized in 1297. The project explores how sanctity, religious devotion, and crusading (Louis was an inveterate crusader) relate to kingship and rulership around 1300 . My teaching interests, however, include the period of Late Antiquity, particularly the figure of Constantine, because the whole idea of the saint-king began with him, and I teach a first year seminar entitled "Constantine the Great" through the Classics Department. I also teach courses on the Crusades, on kingship, and on on art and ideology in the Middle Ages.
CLASSICAL STUDIES 7 - CONSTANTINE THE GREAT
Book: The Making of Saint Louis (IX) of France: Kingship and Sanctity in the Later Middle Ages. (forthcoming)
2004 "Philip the Fair, the Dominicans, and the Liturgical Office of Louis IX: New Perspectives on Ludovicus Decus Regnantium." Plainsong and Medieval Music, 13/1, 2004, 33-61.
2004 "Portals, Pilgrimage, Processions and Piety: Saints Firmin and Honoré at Amiens" in Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles, ed. Rita Tepikke and Sarah Blick, E. J. Brill: Leiden,
2004, 218-242. 2003 "Boniface VIII, Philip the Fair, and the Sanctity of Louis IX" Journal of Medieval History, 29/1 (2003) 1-26.
2002 "Ludovicus Decus Regnantium. The Liturgical Office for Saint Louis and the Ideological Program of Philip the Fair" Majestas, 10 (2002) 27-90.
2000 "The King of France and the Queen of Heaven: The Iconography of the Porte Rouge at Notre-Dame of Paris" Gesta, 39/1 (2000) 58-72.
