Department News - 2005

Elizabeth Makowski and James McWilliams are the latest members of the History faculty to publish new books.




Professor Makowski continues her study of medieval religious women in "A Pernicious Sort of Woman": Quasi-Religious Women and Canon Lawyers in the later Middle Ages. Published by the Catholic University Press of America (2005). The book is a look at how medieval law tried to accommodate the organization of women's informal religious communities. A full description of the work is available at http://cuapress.cua.edu/BOOKS/viewbook.cfm?Book=MAPS.



Assistant Professor James McWilliams's first book is A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America (Columbia University Press, 2005). In this work, Prof. McWilliams traces how new foods and new attitudes toward food changed Europeans into North Americans. A full description is available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023112/0231129920.HTM



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