Dissertation

My dissertation, “Portable Altars, Devotion, and Memory in German Lands, 1050-1190 CE,” examines the patronage and production of portable altars in what is now north-central Germany.

Browse my database of surviving medieval portable altars here.

Other Research Projects and Interests

• Medieval Mass outdoors and without churches
• Tents and moveable sacred space
• Devotional objects in texts
• Movement of materials (gemstones, ivory, etc.) for devotional object creation
• Medieval mineral and metal mining
• Medieval blacksmithing
• Relics of the Holy Nails
• Medieval significance of porphyry (stone)