Louisa Burnham, Associate Professor of History

Louisa Burnham

Topic: Unusual Choices: A Lone and Lonely Heretic in Fourteenth-Century France.

 

Biography: 

Louisa A. Burnham has been a medievalist since the cradle.   Though she was improbably born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, grew up in Massachusetts and was educated at Harvard (A.B., 1987) and Northwestern (Ph.D., 2000), her spiritual home is in a medieval monastery in France, Italy or Catalunya.  Her research is concerned with Franciscans and heretics (and sometimes Franciscan heretics) in late medieval southern Europe, and she is now working on a monograph on an unusual heretic from early fourteenth-century Languedoc.  She teaches survey courses in medieval history as well as specialized courses in topics as diverse as Medieval Cities, Saints and Sinners in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, the Mediterranaean World, Medieval Science, Technology and Magic, and the Black Death. She has received grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the NEH, and the Mellon Foundation.