Anna Taylor

Associate Professor of History

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BACKGROUND

Professor Taylor's new work looks at the history of premodern animals from a zoocentric perspective. Her current book project, "Where Are the Wild Things?" explores the histories of various species from interdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on biology, ethology, and archaeology.  Her first book, Epic Lives and Monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800-1050, published by Cambridge University Press in 2013, is the first book to focus on Latin epic verse saints’ lives in their medieval historical contexts.

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin (2006)

SPECIALIZATIONS

  • History of medieval Europe
  • Animals in the Middle Ages and Ancient World
  • Hagiography
  • History of the book
  • Monsters in the Middle Ages

PUBLICATIONS

  • Epic Lives and Monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800-1050. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 
  • “Books, Bones, and Bodies: Hilduin of Saint-Denis and the Relics of Saint Dionysius.” The Ends of the Body: Identity and Community in Medieval Culture, ed. Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Jill Ross. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. pp. 25-60. 
  • “Lives and Afterlives: Medieval Historians and Hagiography.” Religion Compass 7.1 (2013): 1-14. 
  • “Just like a Mother Bee: Reading and Writing Vitae Metricae around the Year 1000.” Viator 36 (2005): 119- 148.

Research Areas

Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern,
European