Lauren Mancia

Instructor
History

Location: 1123B Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x2810
Fax: 718.951.4504
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By looking at how historical people approached their religion, we can gain access to how they understood themselves and their world. Lauren Mancia looks at what medieval Europeans left behind -- art, writings, artifacts, institutions, etc. -- in order to understand how they experienced the divine. When she puts the events of medieval history side by side with developments in medieval understandings of God, she can see how the cataclysms of the wider medieval world reverberated on the more personal, human level. In her research, Mancia spends most of her time studying the devotional culture of medieval monasteries in the 11th and 12th centuries. Some of the courses she teaches stem from her research interests (e.g., courses on medieval Christianity or on the history of emotions), but she also teaches courses on wider subjects of medieval and early modern history. She is also a lecturer at The Cloisters, the branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art dedicated to the study of medieval art.

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