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Laurie Shepard
associate professor of italian
Education and Academic Degrees:
Boston College, Ph.D. Comparative Medieval Romance Literature and Philology, 1985. Wesleyan University, B.A., English, 1975.
Fields of Research:
The Language of Renaissance Comedy in Italy; Children and the Family in Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature
Recent Publications:
"Marking Time: The Lives of the Young in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany." in Secular / Sacred, 11th-16th Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006, 74-80.
"Siena 1531: Genesis of a European Heroine." Quaderni d'italianistica. 25.2 (2004): 3-19.
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Courting Power: Persuasion and Politics in the Early Thirteenth Century. New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1999. |
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Bruckner, Matilda, Shepard, Laurie, and White, Sarah. Songs of the Women Troubadours. New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1995 (paperback 2000). |
Recent Papers:
“Children in the Middle Ages” Five College Medieval Studies Seminar; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; October 26, 2006.
"Gender Markers in Childhood Sacraments" Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (sponsor), Renaissance Society of America; San Francisco; March 23-25, 2006.
"Laughing in the Face of Tragedy" American Association of Italian Studies; Chapel Hill; April 14-17, 2005.
"Dante's Commentators & the Ecclesiological Vision: Paradiso XI" Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University; Kalamazoo; May 2004.
"Na Carenza al bel cors avinenz: A Textual Interloper." 32nd International Congress Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1997.
Recent Courses:
The Decameron; A Guide to Living Well; Dante's Divine Comedy; The Worlds of Tasso; The Comparative Development of the Romance Languages
Course Calendar:
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