About
Frances Courtney Kneupper is visiting assistant professor of European History at the University of Mississippi. She received her PhD from Northwestern in 2011. Her research interests include religious and cultural history of the Late Middle Ages, with a special focus on heresy, prophecy, and religious dissent. Her current project is titled Crafting Religious and National Identity: The Use of Prophecy in Late Medieval Germany. In 2008, she received a Fulbright Grant for her research in German manuscript libraries. Her minor field is Medieval Islam.
Her current project is titled “Future Things are Hidden from Mankind and ought not to be known”: Contesting Knowledge of the Future in the Late Medieval German Empire.
Publications
Articles:
- The Wirsberger Brothers: Contesting Spiritual Authority Through Prophecy, in Peoples of the Apocalypse/Völker der Endzeit, eds. Wolfram Brandes, Felicitas Schmieder, et al., De Gruyter, Berlin (in press, Fall 2014).
- Heretical Rhetoric in the Sermon of the Crypto-Flagellant Conrad Schmid, in Rhetorik in Mittelalter und Renaissance Konzepte – Praxis – Diversität, Georg Strack & Julia Knödler (eds), Munich, Herbert-Utz Verlag, 2011, pp. 255-265.
- Reconsidering a Heresy Trial in Metz: Beguins and Others, «Franciscana, Bollettino della Società internazionale di studi francescani», Vol. VIII, 2006, pp. 187-227.
In progress:
- The Empire at the End of Time: Identity and Reform in Late Medieval German Prophecy, under review at Penn State University Press.
- Joint editor, Johannes de Rupescissa’s Sexdequiloquium, treatise (in progress, expected completion 2014).
