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Overview
Background
Beth Spacey is a Lecturer in Medieval History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry. Beth is a historian specialising in the religious cultures of Europe and the broader Mediterranean region. Her expertise lies in the history of the crusades and the Latin East, and she has broader research interests in medieval ideas about the supernatural, violence, gender, landscapes, and colonialism. She has published on the medieval Latin Christian historiography of the crusades, especially on ideas of the miraculous and masculinities, and is currently conducting research into attitudes towards nature and God's Creation in crusade texts. Her first book, The Miraculous and the Writing of Crusade Narrative, was published in March 2020 by Boydell and Brewer and was released in paperback in 2023.
Availability
- Dr Beth Spacey is:
- Available for supervision
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Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Birmingham
- Masters (Coursework), University of Birmingham
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Birmingham
Research interests
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Medieval History
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Crusades and the Latin East
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Medieval Religious Cultures
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Medieval Intellectual History
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Gender in Medieval Europe
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Miracles and the Supernatural
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Cultural History of Environment
Works
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2015
Journal Article
The celestial knight: evoking the first crusade in Odo of Deuil’s De Profectione Ludovici VII in Orientem and in the anonymous Historia de Expeditione Friderici Imperatoris
Spacey, Beth C. (2015). The celestial knight: evoking the first crusade in Odo of Deuil’s De Profectione Ludovici VII in Orientem and in the anonymous Historia de Expeditione Friderici Imperatoris. Essays in Medieval Studies, 31 (1), 65-82. doi: 10.1353/ems.2015.0004
Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Dancing with Demons: On the origins of the witches' sabbath in the western Alps (1428-1442)
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Philip Almond, Honorary Professor Marguerite Johnson
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Doctor Philosophy
Using the Unusual, Normalising the Non-Mundane: Didactic Uses of Wonder in the medieval Latin West, c. 1000 ¿ 1300
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Philip Almond, Associate Professor Adam Bowles
Media
Enquiries
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- Crusades
- Europe in the Middle Ages
- Medieval History
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