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Professor Carol Symes

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor of History

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Areas of Specialization

Medieval Europe, especially France and England; cultural history; history of information media and communication technologies; history of theatre

Publications

Books

  • A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007.

Book Contributions

  • "The Tragedy of the Middle Ages." Beyond the Fifth Century: Interactions with Greek Tragedy from the Fourth Century B.C.E to the Middle Ages. Ed. Ingo Gildenhard and Martin Revermann. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010. forthcoming.
  • "Out in the Open, in Arras: Sightlines, Soundscapes, and the Shaping of a Medieval Public Sphere." Cities, Texts, and Social Networks, 400-1500: Experiences and Perceptions of Medieval Urban Space. Ed. Caroline J. Goodson, Anne E. Lester, and Carol Symes. Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2010. forthcoming.
  • "The Confraternity of Jongleurs and the Cult of the Virgin: Vernacular Devotion and Documentation in Medieval Arras." The Church and Vernacular Literature in Medieval France. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2009. 176-197.
  • "Manuscript Matrix, Modern Canon ." Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature: Middle English. Ed. Paul Strohm. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 7-22.
  • "The Lordship of Jongleurs ." The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950-1350. Ed. Adam J. Kosto, Alan Cooper, and Robert F. Berkhofer. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2005. 231-246.
  • "A Few Odd Visits: Unusual Settings of the Visitatio sepulchri." Music and Medieval Manuscripts: Paleography and Performance. Essays in Honour of Andrew Hughes. Ed. John Haines and Randall Rosenfeld. Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2004. 300-322.
  • "The Boy and the Blind Man: A Medieval Play Script and Its Editors." The Book Unbound: New Directions in Editing and Reading Medieval Books and Texts. Ed. Stephen B. Partridge and Siân Echard. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. 105-143.
  • "Theatre." Arts and Humanities through the Eras (Volume V): Medieval Europe (814-1450) . Ed. Kristin M. Figg and John B. Friedman. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2004. 377-416.

Edited Books

  • Symes, Carol, Caroline J. Goodson, and Anne E. Lester. Cities, Texts, and Social Networks, 400-1500: Experiences and Perceptions of Medieval Urban Space. Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2010.

Journal Articles

  • "The History of Medieval Theatre / Theatre of Medieval History: Dramatic Documents and the Performance of the Past." History Compass (2009): 1-17.
  • "The Performance and Preservation of Medieval Latin Comedy ." European Medieval Drama 7 (2003): 29-50.
  • "The Appearance of Early Vernacular Plays: Forms, Functions, and the Future of Medieval Theater ." Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 77 (2002): 778-831.