CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor of Classics
Department of the Classics
University of Illinois
4080 Foreign Languages Building MC-174
707 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801-3676 USA
| Office Telephone: | (217) 333-1009 |
| Office Fax: | (217) 244-8430 (Must be marked "attention: Danuta Shanzer") |
| Active email: | shanzer@uiuc.edu |
| Relevant Webpage: | https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/shanzer/www/ |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.classics.uiuc.edu/shanzer/ |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Origin of the Early Medieval Ordeal by Fire, Bede, Gregory of Tours, Burgundian Marriage and Kinship, Desiderius of Cahors, Avitus of Vienne, Augustine, and more
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
Letters and Selected Prose of Avitus of Vienne (co-authored with Ian Wood, University of Leeds) A translation with extensive textual and historical commentary in the series "Translated Text for Historians (vol. 38)" 450 pp. ISBN 0-85323-588-0
Culture and Society in Later Roman Gaul: Revisiting the Sources (Ashgate 2001), co-edited with R.W. Mathisen
"Avulsa a latere meo:" Augustine's Spare Rib - Augustine Confessions 6.15.25 JRS 92 (2002) 157-176
"So many Saints-so Little Time: the Libri Miraculorum of Gregory of Tours," forthcoming in JMLat. (text of the O'Donnell Lecture)
"Laughter and Humour in the Early Medieval Latin West," in G. Halsall, ed. Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Cambridge 2002) 25-47
"Augustine's Disciplines: Silent diutius Musae Varronis?" in K. Pollmann & M. Vessey, eds. Augustine and the Disciplines (Oxford) forthcoming.
"Epilogue" for Vergil in the Fourth Century, ed. R. Rees (Duckworth) forthcoming.
"Latin Literature, Christianity, and Obscenity in the later Roman West," in Medieval Obscenities, ed. N. MacDonald (York) forthcoming. "Intentions and Audiences: History, Hagiography, Martyrdom, and Confession in Victor of Vita's Historia Persecutionis," in Vandals, Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique Africa, ed. A. Merrills (Ashgate forthcoming)
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
I teach Medieval and Vulgar Latin, and work on Merovingian Latin, a time of transition and plitting off off the Romance vernaculars.
History of the Medieval Book:
I work with manuscripts and teach palaeography and tetxual criticism.
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
Other Possible Themess:
Hagiography
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, I am interested in exchange of PhD students Students in Later Roman and early Medieval Literature, Philology, and Social History.
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
Please see my URL above.
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