All master’s theses completed through the Graduate College of Western Michigan University since 2012 have been entered into ScholarWorks. Some may be embargoed or restricted by the authors and may be only available from on-campus computers. Print copies from earlier years are available through interlibrary loan. We have a few digital copies of earlier years. If you have any questions, please contact wmu-scholarworks@wmich.edu.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Female Criminal Agency in Early Fourteenth-Century Norfolk, Anna K. Davis
Vengeance as Piety: The Heroic and Elegiac Devil of Genesis B, Alisa Heskin
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Constructing and Experiencing the Medieval Waddenland, Hugh R. Milner
Boethian Variations: Musical Thought in Sir Orfeo, Troilus and Criseyde, and Robert Henryson’s Orpheus and Eurydice, Joshua T. Parks
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Reconsidering ‘Soul and Body II’: Who is Culpable for Their Combined Fate?, Sarah Jaran
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Architectural Representation and the Dragon’s Lair in Beowulf, Margaret Heeschen
“Clamor Validus” vs. “Fragilitas Sexus Feminei”: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim on the Agency of Women, Caroline Jansen
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Royal Advice and Religious Authority in Smaragdus of St. Mihiel's Via regia:An Analysis and Critical Edition, Roland Black
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Rhetoric of Revolt in Thirteenth-Century Castile and England, Jillian M. Bjerke
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Hearts of Ovid's Heroines in Trojumanna Saga, Luke J. Chambers
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
"His Head Rolled Forth Onto the Floor:" Women, the Abject, and the Male Gaze in Old English Poetry, Jaime Michelle Myers
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Idealized Manhood in English Household Romances and Abjected Masculinity in their Audiences: c. 1450-1500, Joy Ambler
"Hostel" Romance: A Homecoming for Medieval Horror, Juliette A. Arico
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Leofgar's Mustaches: Militarism, Virility, and Contemporary Criticism in Eleventh-Century England, Mary Elizabeth Blanchard
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The Altercatio Ecclesiae et Synagogae as a Late Antique Anti-Jewish Polemic, Michael J. Brinks
Ferrarius Catalanus and His Role in the Scholastic Innovations and Intellectual Rivalries of the Thirteenth Century, Louis D. Shwartz
Riccoldo da Monte Croce's Ad Nationes Orientales: A Study of a Fourteenth-Century Dominican Missionary Manual, Lydia Marie Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
The Punishment Fits the Crime: Ownership, Gift-Giving, and Theft in Anglo-Saxon England, Jill Diane Hamilton
Making Marginal Progress: Medieval Christendom's First Attempt to Study Islam, Anthony Minnema
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Between the Lion and Red Dragon: The Marcher Lordship of Aberga Venny C. 1320 through the Lens of Monastic Disobedience, Matthew McConnel
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
"Opene Þefore Þe I3e of Þin Intellecte": Holy Tears in The Book of Margerykempe AND The Orcherd of Syon, James Ryan Gregory
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
‘ÞÆT Is Yrre': The Construction and Use of Anger in Anglo-Saxon Literature, Hilary E. Fox
The Diario of Polissena Pioppi: Nuns and Faction in Sixteenth-Century Modena, Amanda G. Madden
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Spells, Talismans and the Stars: Varieties of Interpersonal Magic in Ghayat al-hakim, Elisabeth Carnell
The Impact of the Norman Conquest on Christ Church Cathedral Priory and Worcester Cathedral Priory: A Survey Based on Library Holdings, Toruko Ishihara
The Social Roles of the Early Irish Monastery of Kildare and Its Paruchia within the Kingdom of Leinster, Bridgette K. Slavin
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
The Strange Races on the Hereford Mappa Mundi: An Investigation of Sources, John H. Chandler
“The Kingis Quair”: A Critical Edition, Michael D. Livingston
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Social and Political Violence in the Medieval Rhineland, Matthew Bryan Gillis
Alphonsus Bonihominis' Conversionary Letter from Rabbi Samuel to Rabbi Isaac, Melodie F. Harris
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
The Significance of Shape-Shifting and Transformation in Medieval Welsh and Icelandic Literature: The Ingenuity of Medieval Writers, Samanatha J. Cairo
As Different as Night and Day: Palamon and Arcite Reconsidered, William Hamilton
The PS Boniface Sermons: Law for the Christian Populace, Amy Michelle Stout
Eadmer of Canterbury's Breviloquium Vitae Sancti Wilfridi, Joshua A. Westgard
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Delectatio et Utilitas in Hrotsvit of Gandersheim's Resuscitatio Drusianae et Calimachi, Mary Maxine Browne
Visual Images of Late Anglo-Saxon Kings and Kingship, Kevin L. Glick
The Patronage of Saint Pirmin: A Study of the Relationship of the Monks of Hornbach and their Founder, John A. Scofield
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Clerical Concubinage and Sexual Relationships in the Visitation Records of the Fourteenth-Century Diocese of Barcelona, Colleen Marie Bos
Prostitutes and Prostitution in Late Medieval Barcelona, Jana L. Byars
Women's Autonomy in Late Anglo-Saxon England Based on the Place-Name Evidence, Norman B. Frost
Magical Results of Eating and Drinking in Medieval Narrative, Deborah A. Oosterhouse
The Old English Prose Homily on the Phoenix, Patricia Relf Relf Hanavan
Making an English Bestiary: An Examination of the Tradition and a Modern Experience of the Technical Aspects of Production, Pamela S. Rups
Into the Abyss of Love: Beguine Spirituality in the Minnemystiek of Hadewijch of Antwerp, Nina Steed
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Gerard Segarelli and the Order of Apostles at Parma and Bologna: Mendicant Rivalry and Heresy in Thirteenth-Century Lombardy, Brian R. Carniello
The Commercialization of the Medieval Ideal: The Spanish Forger and Handbooks of Illumination, Amy E. Dawson
The Serpent, The Salmon, and The Tête Coupée: Pagan Celtic Religious Iconography in the Book of Kells, Michael C. Johnson
Two Anonymous Pre-Tenth Century Nativity Sermons, Michael Thomas Martin
Some Aspects of the Evolution of the Medieval Tournament Up to the Reign of Maximilian I: An Introduction, Kathryn L. Woodruff
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
The Commentary on Book Five of Boethius' "Consolation of Philosophy" By Pseudo-Thomas Aquinas and Josse Bade, Janet Suzanne Evenson
Anti-Jewish Polemics in Carolingian Gaul: The Campaigns of Agobard and Amulo Against the Jews of Lyons, David Harrison Horton
Gratian's Decretum: Gratian's Position On Contraception and Abortion as Presented in 32.27-10 and Its Influences in Peter Lombard's Sentences, Margaret T. Mudroch
The Politics of Arthurian Legend in the Plantagenet Empire: A Study of Literary and Historical Sources from the Time of Henry II to Edward I, Laura J. Radiker
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Consanguinitas Et Ius Sanguinis: Kinship Calculation and Medieval Marriage, Sandra Masters
Robert of Turlande and La Chaise-Dieu: A Re-evaluation, Maureen M. O'Brien
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Expositeo Attonis Episcopivercellensis in Epistolam Sancti Pauli Ad Romanos: Introduction and Partial Text, Steven R. Cartwright
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Purity of Purpose: The Aesthetics of Bernard of Clairvaux Based on His Monastic Anthropology, Daniel Marcel La Corte
King Bela before the Mongol Invasion (1214-1241), Pongracz Sennyey
The Original Rule of the Knights Templar: A Translation with Introduction, Robert T. Wojtowicz
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
The Last World Emperor and the Angelic Pope: Eschatological Figures as Representative of the Medieval Struggle of “Sacerdotium" and “Imperium”, Christopher Joseph Beiting
"The Pistill of Swete Susan": Translation and Commentary, Yvonne Daulton Carmicheal
Robert Grosseteste's De Ubero Arbitrio, Andrew L. Pearson
Three Women Saints in the Thirteenth Century: Mentalities and Roles, Ulrike Strasser
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
A Study of the Preservation of the Classical Tradition in the Education, Language, and Literature of the Byzantine Empire, Germaine Manuel
An Edition of Newberry MS 31 (RY 8), Spiritual Texts, Ross Roberts
The Myth of Tereus and the Nightingale Motif in Classical and Medieval Literature and in the Works of Chauce, Betty Vanderwielen
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
The Nature of the British Fairies of Medieval and Folk Literature an Annotated Bibliography 1900-1983, Constance Reik
The Wiedergeburt in the Religion of the Zoarites, Elizabeth Siber White
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Ralph III and the House of Tosny, Joseph P. Huffman
Manual Labor: The Twelfth-Century Cistercian Ideal, Dennis R. Overman
Chretien de Troyes' Erec et Enide and Cistercian Spirituality, Patricia Ann Quattrin
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
The Albigensian Heresy and the Gnostic Tradition, John Stine Penman
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Tristan und Isolde: Gottfried's Paradigm for Emancipation, Elvira Borgstadt
The Monastic Libraries of the Diocese of Winchester during the Late Anglo-Saxon and Norman Periods, Steven F. Vincent
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
St. Osmund of Salisbury, Michael A. Benton
The Second and Third Crusades: Their Justification and Goals as Seen by the Clergy, Hugh Clifton Griffith
A Study of the Portrayal of Saints Peter and Paul in French Gothic Art, Claire Kriebel
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Olavus Petri's Polemic against Monasticism: A Translation with Critical Notes, Margaret Mary King
Reason and Revelation in Early Christian Thought the Synthetic Use of the Term Logos in Justin the Martyr and Greek Apologetic Literature, Rick M. Rogers
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Rapture in the Spirituality of St. Thomas Aquinas, Diane L. Harwood