Walter Simons
Title: Professor
Office: 407 Carson
Phone: 643-2992
Departmental Web Site: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~history/faculty/simons.html
Medieval and Renaissance Courses Taught
- History 3: Europe in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times (with David Lagomarsino)
- History 7: Eco’s Echoes: The Middle Ages in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose and Baudolino (First-Year Seminar)
- History 42: Gender and European Society from Classical Antiquity to the Reformation
- History 43: European Intellectual and Cultural History, 400-1300
- History 44: Medieval France
- History 96: Topics in Medieval History (Senior Seminar, subject varies)
Areas of Research Interest
- Religious Orders and Movements
- Mendicant Orders; Beguines and Beghards
- Mysticism, Urban History, France & Low Countries
- Historiography
Important and/or Recent and/or Major Publications
- The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. IV: Christianity in Western Europe, c. 1100-c.1500. Co-edited with Miri Rubin. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2009
- Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001 (Paperback edition 2003)
- The Productivity of Urban Space in Northern Europe. Co-edited with Peter Arnade and Martha Howell. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 32,4 (Spring 2002), p. 515-704
