History

Philip Grace - D-1-236 MAK, (616) 331-2851, gracep@gvsu.edu

Visiting Assistant Professor of History

Fields: Medieval Studies, Early Modern World

Degrees: B.A. in History, Wheaton College, 2002
                    M.A. in Medieval History, Western Michigan University, 2005
                    Ph.D. in Medieval History, University of Minnesota, 2010

Courses Taught:
HST 101 (World Civilizations)
HST 203 (World History to 1500)
HST 377 (History of Warfare)

Teaching and Research Interests:
Medieval Intellectual and Cultural History
Gender, Family and Social History
Material Culture and the History of Everyday Life
Early Modern World History

Scholarly Work:

"Providers and Educators: The Theory and Practice of Fatherhood in Late Medieval Basel, 1475-1529," Doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2010. 

"Family and Familiars: The Concentric Household in Late Medieval Penitential Narratives."  Journal of Medieval History 35.2 (June 2009): 189-203.

"Aspects of Fatherhood in Thirteenth-Century Encyclopedias."  Journal of Family History 31.3 (July 2006): 211-236.

"Making Masters Moral: The Exchange of Social Discipline in Late Medieval Basel."  38th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association at the University of Southern Mississippi; October 18-20, 2012. 

"Harnessing the Hausvater: Fatherhood and the Reformation in Basel." 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan; May 12-15, 2011. 

"Food and Clothing as Sites of Fatherly Instruction: Evidence from Pedagogical Treatises in Fifteenth-Century Basel." 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan; May 7-10, 2009.

"Father as Educator and Educator as Father: Contested Roles in the Amerbach Correspondence." The Long Fifteeth Century: International Graduate Student Colloquium at the University of Minnesota; April 7-11, 2008.

"Father as Advisor in Georg Wickram's 'Der Verlorene Sohn.'" 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan; May 4-7, 2006.

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