Kristen Neuschel
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Office Location: | 233 Carr Building |
| Office Phone: | (919) 684-2437 |
| Email Address: | kneusche@duke.edu |
Education
- PhD Brown University, 1982
- MA Brown University, 1975
- BA Denison University, 1973
Research Interests
Dr. Neuschel concentrates on late medieval and early modern France and Europe. Her current research focuses on war and culture in northern Europe between 1400 and 1600. She teaches courses in the history of war, of gender relations and surveys of the history of medieval and early modern Europe.
Teaching (Spring 2010):
- HISTORY 49S.01, LIVING THROUGH GREAT WAR
Synopsis
Recent Publications
Books
- Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment Fourth Edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2004). with Thomas F.X. Noble et al.
- "Graphic History: What Readers Knew and Were Told in the Quarante Tableaux of Perrissin and Tortorel." French Historical Studies 28 (2005).
- with Lawrence M. Bryant. "French Representation of War and Ceremony, 1548-1570: From Images of Events to a National History." (2003). A co-authored study of a series of published engravings concerning the French Religious Wars; sometimes called the "Bayeux tapestry of the sixteenth century," these engravings constitute an invaluable documentary and symbolic record of political and military practices as well as of notions of legitimacy and nationhood for the time
- "The Invention of Modern War." (2003). A social, cultural and political history of war in early modern France and England which integrates perspectives from feminist theory, military and political history and cultural studies