Cecilia Gaposchkin

Title: Assistant Professor of History and Assistant Dean of Faculty for Pre-Major Advising
Office: 210 Carson Hall, 110 Wentworth Hall
Phone: 646-9280, 646-2876
Departmental Web Site: Cecilia Gaposchkin

Medieval and Renaissance Courses Taught

• Hist 3: Europe in Medieval and Early Modern Times
• Hist 6: Crusades and Culture, 1095-1350
• Hist 6: The Transformation of Rome in Late Antiquity
• Hist 7: Medieval Paris
• Hist 43: Intellectual and Cultural History of the Middle Ages
• Coco 12: Crusades and Jihad: The Mediterranean Experience 1095-1350 (with Kevin Reinhart, Religion)
• Coco 9/2: Imaging Power: Ideology, Authority and Representation in Medieval Europe (with Jane Carroll, Art History)
• History 98.4: Medieval Rulership

Areas of Research Interest

Cecilia Gaposchkin works on late medieval French cultural history, and has published on the intersection between politics, kingship, and representation. She is currently interested in art and culture under the Capetian Kings, as well as the influence of crusading and crusade ideology on culture and kingship in the West.

Major Publications

• The Making of Saint Louis: Kingship, Crusades and Sanctity in the Later Middle Ages (Cornell University Press: 2008, paperback ed.: 2010).
• "The Monastic office for Louis IX of France: Lauda Celestis Regio." Revue Mabillon, v. 20 (n.s. 81), 55-86.
• "The Role of the Crusades in the Sanctification of Louis IX of France." Crusades: Medieval Worlds in Conflict (Ashgate: 2010), forthcoming.
• "Saint Louis et la mémoire liturgique." In Revue d'histoire de l'Église de France. v. 94, no. 233 (2009).
• "Political Ideas in the Liturgical Offices for Saint Louis." In Political Plainchant? Music, Text and Historical Context of Medieval Saints' Offices. Edited by Roman Hankeln. (Ottowa: 2009) 59-80.
• “Louis IX, crusade, and the promise of Joshua in the Holy Land." Journal of Medieval History 34 (2008) 245-274.
• “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.
• “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.
• “Boniface VIII, Philip the Fair, and the Sanctity of Louis IX” Journal of Medieval History, 29/1 (2003) 1-26.*
• “Ludovicus Decus Regnantium. The Liturgical Office for Saint Louis and the Ideological Program of Philip the Fair” Majestas, 10 (2002) 27-90.
• “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.