department of History
Roinn Na Staire

Kimberly LoPrete

Contact Details

• E-mail: kim.lopretenuigalway.ie
• Office: Room 407, History Department
• Extension: 3547
• Telephone: 353 91 493547

Undergraduate Teaching

[ Course_Descriptions]

Kim currently teaches the following courses ( not available 2009-10)

• HI248 Medieval Europe, c.1250-1500 (2nd-yr lecture module)
• HI412 War, Love & Religion in Medieval Society, c.1080-1140 (2nd-yr Colloquium)
• HI345 Women in Medieval Society (Final-yr lecture module)
• HI437 The First Crusade (Final-yr Seminar)

She occasionally teaches

• HI262 Medieval Europe, c.1050-1250
• HI338 The Long Twelfth Century in Europe

and lectures on

• Medieval Childhoods to CS115, BA Connect: Children’s Studies
• Europe, c. 1300–1450: Creative Responses to Catastrophe to Evening Arts, 1BA History

POSTGRADUATE TEACHING & SUPERVISION

(not available 2009-10)

Kim regularly contributes seminars to the MA in History on later medieval travel in the Mongol realms and resources for the study of Medieval Europe.

For the MA in Medieval Studies Kim contributes seminars on diplomatic, numismatics, sigillography, religion & ritual to Sources & Resources modules and teaches the First Crusade & Women in Medieval Society as ’Aspects of Medieval History’.

Subject to demand, she offers a year-long seminar, ’Lordship & Society in France, c.1000–1200’, devoted to understanding socio-political relations in eleventh-twelfth century France now that historians have banished 'feudalism' (but not things feudal) from their conceptual repertoires. Students read and discuss historiographical classics before turning to debates about the ’feudal transformation’ and studies incorporating anthropological approaches to violence & social cohesion in stateless societies. Semester 2 is devoted to primary sources such as letters & charters, the conventum between Hugh the Chiliarch & his lord, and Galbert of Bruges' extensive account of the murder of count Charles the Good of Flanders.

At Galway, Kim has directed M.Litt. & MA theses on topics such as ’Reform, Liberty and the First Crusade’; ’Thietmar of Merseburg and the Church in Ottonian Germany’; ’Ritual Processes in Galbert of Bruges’ Murder of Count Charles the Good’.

Students she has supervised have won scholarships for PhD research at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Southern California.

She offers postgraduate readings & research modules and thesis supervision in the areas listed above at research interests

Kim also oversees the annual Sieg & Dunlop Travel Grant to attend the International Congress of Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

For teaching, Kim covers the social, political & religio-cultural history of medieval Europe, though her current research focus is on the 11th-12th centuries, particularly in France.

Other areas of special expertise include

• women in medieval society, most notably, aristocratic women, women visionaries, & medical views of women;
• gender & lordship;
• aristocratic society & ’the feudal transformation’; 
• the first crusade & the history of crusading;
• ecclesiastical reform & new religious movements;
• medieval historical writing & uses of the past in the middle ages;
• charters & chronicles, with special emphasis on diplomatic & the rhetorics of narrative;
• Europeans’ encounters with non-Europeans & travels in Asia;
• manuscript studies, including Latin palaeography, codicology, & textual transmission.

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