Bøker av Constance Brittain Bouchard

You finished your dissertation. You successfully defended and are now a PhD. You probably know more about your dissertation topic and care less than anyone else on the planet. And yet they now expect you to turn it into a book?In this short work an eminent historian guides you through the process, from deciding whether your dissertation really should be a book at all, to revising, working with a press, and finally opening that box with your newly printed books inside.Written in a lively and accessible manner, this will help guide the beginning scholar to shape a manuscript into a successful academic book.

"A wonderful introduction to those new to the subject as well as a welcome contribution to the debate on the nature of the medieval nobility."-Medieval Review

Rewriting Saints and Ancestors examines the ways medieval French writers re-remembered and rewrote the lives of saints and dynastic ancestors, reconceptualizing the past in order to make sense of the present.

With full annotation of people and places and English-language summaries, these cartularies make a valuable contribution to our understanding of this significant episcopal centre's history.

The twelfth century was characterized by intense spirituality as well as rapid economic development. Drawing on unprecedented research, Constance Brittain Bouchard demonstrates that the Cistercian monks of Burgundy were exemplary in both spheres...

In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued with a Christian culture in which a penniless preacher was also the King of Kings and the last were expected to be first...