Graduate Student Profile
Dahlke, Courtney B.A. Stanford University
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Supervisor: A. Murray
Thesis Topic: "Deploying the Distant Past at the Monastery of Saint-Denis”
Courtney Dahlke is interested in Late Antiquity, and its depiction in both contemporary texts and those of the high Middle Ages and beyond. Her dissertation research focuses on the monastery of Saint-Denis, and its deployment of the distant past in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. She is also interested in premodern sex and gender, and historiography, both premodern and modern. She has recently presented papers entitled "Re-gendering Female Violence: The Feminine Context of Female Aggression in the Histories of Gregory of Tours", and "Past and Present in Medieval Historiography: The Cases of Les Grandes Chroniques de France and Estoria de Espanna".