Dr. Lucy Barnhouse

Asst. Prof.

Department of History

Arkansas State University

P.O. Box 1690

US

72467 State University, AR

lbarnhouse@astate.edu

Research and projects

Current position(s)

Assistant Professor of History

Current project(s)

Beyond Cadfael: Medieval Medicine in Popular Culture. Proposal invited by the Science in Popular Culture series, Palgrave Macmillan.

Former position(s)

Visiting Assistant Professor of History (Wartburg College)
Visiting Assistant Professor of History (College of Wooster)

Publications

Monographs (and dissertation)

Houses of God, Places for the Sick: Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland.

“The Elusive Medieval Hospital: Mainz and the Middle Rhine Region.” (Ph.Diss.)

Articles

“‘A Certain Poor Woman’: Vulnerability and Visibility among Hospital Donors and Tenants.” Medieval People: Social Bonds, Kinship and Networks, vol. 36 (forthcoming 2022)
“Hospitals, Healthscaping, and Hateful Words: Public Health in the Late Medieval Rhineland.” In: Pre-Modern Environment and Disease, edited by Lori Jones. Revised chapter submitted May 2020. Proofs submitted September 2021. Forthcoming, Routledge.
“Good People, Poor Sick: The Social Identities of Lepers in the Late Medieval Rhineland.” In: Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages: from England to the Mediterranean, edited by Elma Brenner & François-Olivier Touati, 183-207. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.
“Disordered Women? The Hospital Sisters of Mainz and Their Late Medieval Identities.” Medieval Feminist Forum 55:2 (2020), 60-97.

Edited volumes

“Examining for Leprosy in the Fifteenth Century.” In: Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe, edited by Cameron Hunt McNabb, 76-93. Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2020.