The following Medieval Academy members have recently been awarded Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities:
Dyan Elliott, Northwestern University, “The Medieval Church and the Exhumation of Christians” (research and writing leading to a book on how medieval Christians treated the dead to signify posthumous reward or punishment).
Lisa Bitel, University of Southern California, “Unseen: The Religious Supernatural in the Earliest Middle Ages” (research and writing leading to a book on religious conversion to Christianity in early medieval Britain and Ireland).
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