Melissa Vise
Associate Professor
Office Hours: W, 10:00AM-12:00PM
Education
Ph.D., Medieval and Early Modern History, Northwestern University, 2015
M.T.S., History of Christianity, University of Notre Dame, 2008
B.A., Philosophy and Religion, Boston University, 2006
Publications
Books
Forthcoming: The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy, 1250-1450. University of Pennsylvania Press, The Middle Ages Series. January 2025.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“The Matter of Personae in Medieval Italy” American Journal of Legal History Volume 63, Issue 2, 2023: 131-48.
“Compositio: Horizons of Truth in The Decameron, the Notarial Register, and Civic Peace Pacts” Viator 52, Issue 2, 2021: 227-259.
--honorable mention from the Society for Italian Historical Studies 2023
“The Women and the Inquisitor: Peace-making in Bologna, 1299” Speculum 93, no. 2. (April, 2018): 357-386.
“To the Podestà or the Inquisitor? Adjudicating Blasphemy in Medieval Bologna, 1250-1450” in Justice and Violence: Bologna 1250-1700. ed. Sarah Blanshei (Lexington Press, 2018)