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Walter Simons

SimonsAssociate Professor of History

Office: 407 Carson Hall

Office Phone: (603) 646-2992

Fax: (603) 646-3353

Email: Walter.Simons@Dartmouth.edu

Address:

  • Department of History
    Dartmouth College
    6107 Carson Hall
    Hanover, NH 03755

Courses

  • 3: The History of Europe in Medieval and Early Modern Times
  • 42: Gender and European Society and Antiquity to the Reformation
  • 43: European Intellectual and Cultural History, 400-1300
  • 44: Medieval France, 400-1494

Growing up in Bruges, one of the most beautiful medieval cities in Europe, Walter Simons never had any doubt in his mind that he wanted to be a medievalist. He was trained as a historian in Belgium and at the Center for Medieval Studies in Poitiers, France, before receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Ghent, Bruges' arch-rival from the Middle Ages. A very medieval academic peregrination brought him from his native Flanders to the United States, which he finds not very medieval but all the more fascinating. He teaches Intellectual and Cultural History of the Middle Ages, Medieval France, Gender in European Society from Antiquity to the Reformation, while collaborating in History 3. His research has centered on the social environment of religious movements in the high and late middle ages, with an additional interest in popular culture, art, and-as a sidestep into the 20th century-the First World War. He has just finished a book about lay women and religion in the medieval Low Countries and is now working on a cultural history of weaving in medieval Europe.

Last Updated: 10/15/08