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Christopher MacEvitt

christopher macevitt

Associate Professor

Christopher MacEvitt specializes in the history of medieval Christian communities, particularly around the Mediterranean. After studying Classics and Medieval Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut (B.A. 1995), he did his graduate work at Princeton University in the department of History (Ph.D. 2002). His courses explore both the ancient and medieval history of Christian communities, with particular interests in gender and identity.  He has recently published his first book, which examines the idea and practice of tolerance in the twelfth-century crusader principalities in Syria and Palestine, and is currently studying competing images of Jerusalem in the fourteenth-century Mediterranean, as well as Franciscans who died as martyrs in Islamic lands.

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Courses and Programs

2012 Summer
  • Non-Teaching Term

2012 Fall

  • Non-Teaching Term

2013 Winter

  • 15 (10) The Christian Tradition
  • 85 (10A) Senior Colloquium: Performing Religion (co-teaching with Reiko Ohnuma)

2013 Spring

  • 30 (11) Sacred Cities: Rome
  • 31 (2A) Sex, Celibacy, and the Problem of Purity: Asceticism and the Human Body in Late Antiquity (Identical to WGST 43.2 and CLST 11)

     

Last Updated: 8/7/12