Present and Past Professors and Alum Collaborate on Books

This spring, Emilie Amt, Hildegarde Pilgram professor of history at Hood, published two books. The first is a collection of translated medieval texts entitled The Crusades: A Reader, Second Edition. The sourcebook explores the Crusades from medieval perspectives. It includes original European and Middle Eastern documents written by Muslims, Jews and Christians, and covers multiple facets of the period. Emilie’s co-editor, S.J. Allen, taught at Hood in the early 21st century and directed the M.A. in Humanities program for a year. She now teaches at England’s Open University.

The second publication, The Latin Cartulary of Godstow Abbey, is a compilation of more than 900 documents and records from that convent, written mostly in Latin. The book is the result of 10 years of research conducted by Emilie and provides insights into medieval nuns’ lives. Working extensively with the Latin texts, Scott Mauer (M.A. ’14) helped index the book while he was a Humanities graduate student at Hood.