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Kathryne E. Beebe

Title: Associate Professor

Department: History

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • PhD, University of Oxford, 2007
    Major: Modern History
    Specialization: Medieval History
    Dissertation: Felix Fabri and his Audiences: the pilgrimage writings of a Dominican preacher in late-medieval Germany
  • MSt, University of Oxford, 2002
    Major: History
    Specialization: Medieval History
    Dissertation: Margery Kempe as Pilgrim: sacred spaces and pilgrimages in a mystic’s 'Imitatio Christi'.
  • BA, Carleton College, 2000
    Major: English Literature
    Specialization: English Literature

Current Scheduled Teaching

HIST 6950.703Doctoral DissertationSpring 2025
HIST 4221.401Early Modern Europe and the WorldSpring 3W1 2025
HIST 6950.702Doctoral DissertationFall 2024
HIST 6900.706Special ProblemsFall 2024

Previous Scheduled Teaching

HIST 4221.032Early Modern Europe and the WorldSummer 5W2 2024 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6900.710Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2024
HIST 6950.703Doctoral DissertationSpring 2024
HIST 4224.001History of the BookSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6940.725Individual ResearchSpring 2024
HIST 4219.031Late Medieval Europe, 1095 to 1400Spring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.702Doctoral DissertationFall 2023
HIST 6950.721Doctoral DissertationFall 2023
HIST 4218.001Early Medieval Europe, ca. 312 1095Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6940.702Individual ResearchFall 2023
HIST 4222.001Medieval TravelersFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4221.032Early Modern Europe and the WorldSummer 5W2 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5900.801Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2023
HIST 6950.703Doctoral DissertationSpring 2023
HIST 4221.831Early Modern Europe and the WorldSpring 3W1 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6940.725Individual ResearchSpring 2023
HIST 5950.721Master's ThesisSpring 2023
HIST 5900.704Special ProblemsSpring 8W2 2023
HIST 5040.003Studies in Modern European HistorySpring 2023 SPOT
HIST 6950.702Doctoral DissertationFall 2022
HIST 4218.001Early Medieval Europe, ca. 312 1095Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6940.702Individual ResearchFall 2022
HIST 5950.701Master's ThesisFall 2022
HIST 6900.706Special ProblemsFall 2022
HIST 5040.001Studies in Modern European HistoryFall 2022 SPOT
HIST 4221.031Early Modern Europe and the WorldSummer 5W2 2022 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5950.701Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2022
HIST 5900.801Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2022
HIST 6950.703Doctoral DissertationSpring 2022
HIST 4224.002History of the BookSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4219.031Late Medieval Europe, 1095 to 1400Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5950.708Master's ThesisSpring 2022
HIST 6950.702Doctoral DissertationFall 2021
HIST 4218.031Early Medieval Europe, ca. 312 1095Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6940.001Individual ResearchFall 2021
HIST 5950.701Master's ThesisFall 2021
HIST 5900.702Special ProblemsFall 2021
HIST 6900.706Special ProblemsFall 2021
HIST 5040.001Studies in Modern European HistoryFall 2021 SPOT
HIST 4221.031Early Modern Europe and the WorldSummer 5W1 2021 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4221.777Early Modern Europe and the WorldSummer 5W1 2021 SPOT
HIST 5950.701Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2021
HIST 5040.001Studies in Modern European HistorySummer 5W1 2021 SPOT
HIST 4219.001Late Medieval Europe, 1095 to 1400Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5950.708Master's ThesisSpring 2021
HIST 5040.002Studies in Modern European HistorySpring 2021 SPOT
HIST 4262.831Topics in European HistorySpring 3W1 2021 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4260.003Topics in HistorySpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4218.001Early Medieval Europe, ca. 312 1095Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5080.001Seminar in Modern European HistoryFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5950.701Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2020
HIST 4260.031Topics in HistorySummer 5W1 2020 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4260.777Topics in HistorySummer 5W1 2020 SPOT
HIST 4951.005Honors College Capstone ThesisSpring 2020
HIST 5950.708Master's ThesisSpring 2020
HIST 4218.001Early Medieval Europe, ca. 312 1095Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5950.701Master's ThesisFall 2019
HIST 4260.001Topics in HistoryFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5900.701Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2019
HIST 5900.715Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2019
HIST 4260.031Topics in HistorySummer 5W1 2019 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4219.001Late Medieval Europe, 1095 to 1400Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5040.002Studies in Modern European HistorySpring 2019 SPOT
HIST 4218.001Early Medieval Europe, ca. 312 1095Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4260.003Topics in HistoryFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Beebe, K.E., Davis, A. (2017). Space, Place and Gendered Identities: Feminist History and the Spatial Turn (paperback edition). (1) 158. London, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. https://www.routledge.com/Space-Place-and-Gendered-Identities-Feminist-History-and-the-Spatial/Beebe-Davis/p/book/9781138830493
  • Beebe, K.E., Davis, A. (2015). Space, Place and Gendered Identities: Feminist History and the Spatial Turn. (1) 158. London, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. https://www.routledge.com/Space-Place-and-Gendered-Identities-Feminist-History-and-the-Spatial/Beebe-Davis/p/book/9781138830493
  • Beebe, K.E. (2014). Pilgrim and Preacher: the Audiences and Observant Spirituality of Friar Felix Fabri (1437/8–1502). 288. Oxford, Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/pilgrim-and-preacher-9780198717072?cc=us&lang=en&
  • Book Chapter

  • Beebe, K. (2024). The Eschatology of Pilgrimage Literature and the Gender of the Apocalypse in Late Medieval Europe. Turnhout, Brepols.
  • Beebe, K., Bauer, M., Booth, P., Fischer, S. (2023). Jacob Klingner, Felix Fabri, and the Interpretation of Imagined Pilgrimage. Das Mittelalter. To Jerusalem and Beyond: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Latin Travel Literature, c.1200-1500. 19 (Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte, Band 19) 223-244. Heidelberg, Heidelberg University Publishing.
  • Beebe, K., Leyser, H., Sweetman, R. (2022). “‘There is Great Delight in her Friendship’: A Tribute to Lesley Smith.”. Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Biblical Exegesis: A Festschrift for Lesley Smith. 12-16. Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Publications. https://utpdistribution.com/9780888448347/studies-in-the-sacred-page-encounters-with-medieval-manuscripts-texts-and-exegesis/
  • Beebe, K.E. (2020). “Observant Reform in the Late Middle Ages". The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
  • Beebe, K.E. (2018). “The Nachleben of the Gottesfreunde: Heinrich Seuse and Felix Fabri". Friends of God. Vernacular Literature and Religious Elites in the Rhineland and the Low Countries (1300–1500). 273–289. Rome, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura (Series: Temi i Testi). http://www.storiaeletteratura.it/catalogo/friends-of-god/5112
  • Beebe, K.E. (2018). “Felix Fabri und die Klosterreformen des 15. Jahrhunderts”. Die Welt des Frater Felix Fabri. 75-87. Weißenhorn, Anton H. Konrad Verlag. https://www.konrad-verlag.de/programm/titel/729-die-welt-des-frater-felix-fabri.html
  • Beebe, K.E. (2014). “The Jerusalem of the Mind’s Eye: Imagined Pilgrimage in the Fifteenth Century". Visual Constructs of Jerusalem (Series: Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 18.). 409–420. Turnhout, Brepols. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.6.09070802050003050501000403
  • Book Review

  • Beebe, K. (2014). Pilgrimage and Pogrom: Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria. By Mitchell B. Merback. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press. 2012.. 32 (3) 456–458. Oxford, Oxfordshire, Oxford University Press.
  • Beebe, K. (2012). The Itineraries of William Wey. Edited and Translated by Francis Davey (Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2010).. 25 (1) 12–15. Oxford, Oxfordshire, The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
  • Beebe, K. (2010). Cyrus, Cynthia J. The Scribes for Women’s Convents in Late Medieval Germany. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.. The German Quarterly. 83 (3) 373–374.
  • Beebe, K. (2010). Atlas of Medieval Europe, eds. David Ditchburn, Simon MacLean, and Angus MacKay (London: Routledge, 2007).. CXXV (512) 142–143. Oxford, Oxfordshire, Oxford University Press.
  • Beebe, K. (2004). O. R. Constable, Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).. 1 Oxford, Oxfordshire, Oxford University History Society. https://sites.google.com/site/jouhsinfo/beebe02.pdf?attredirects=0
  • Encyclopedia Article

  • Beebe, K.E. (2009). “Knighting of Pilgrims,” in the Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage. 316-317. Leiden, Brill. https://brill.com/view/title/11562
  • Beebe, K.E. (2009). “Return from Pilgrimage," in Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage. 631-633. Leiden, Brill. https://brill.com/view/title/11562
  • Journal Article

  • Beebe, K.E., Bale, A. (2021). "Introduction: Pilgrimage and Textual Culture: The Production, Exchange, and Reception of Pilgrimage Texts in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe". Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Special edition of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 51 (1) 1-8. Durham, NC, Duke University Press. https://read.dukeupress.edu/jmems
  • Beebe, K.E. (2021). “The Meaning of Imagined Pilgrimage". Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Part of the Special Issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: "Pilgrimage and Textual Culture: The Production, Exchange, and Reception of Pilgrimage Texts in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe.”. 51 (1) 141-159. Durham, NC, Duke University Press. https://read.dukeupress.edu/jmems
  • Beebe, K.E. (2019). “Journey, Geography, and Time in Felix Fabri’s 'Sionpilger'”. Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte. 93 431–448. Stuttgart, J.B. Metzler Verlag. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41245-019-00090-2
  • Beebe, K.E., Davis, A., Gleadle, K. (2012). “Introduction: Space, Place and Gendered Identities: Feminist History and the Spatial Turn". 21 (4) 523-532. London, Taylor & Francis. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rwhr20/21/4
  • Beebe, K.E. (2008). “Reading Mental Pilgrimage in Context: the Imaginary Pilgrims and Real Travels of Felix Fabri’s ‘Die Sionpilger'". 25 39-70. Morgantown, WV, West Virginia University Press. http://muse.jhu.edu/article/261870
  • Beebe, K.E. (2006). “Knights, Cooks, Monks and Tourists: Elite and Popular Experience of the Late-Medieval Jerusalem Pilgrimage". Essays in Medieval Studies. Elite and Popular Religion (Special issue of the journal Studies in Church History 42). 42 99–109. Martlesham, Boydell & Brewer / Cambridge University Press for the Ecclesiastical History Society. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/studies-in-church-history/article/knights-cooks-monks-and-tourists-elite-and-popular-experience-of-the-latemedieval-jerusalem-pilgrimage/A9C463690FA65BCA8DD07F36A54322F7
  • Journal Special Issue

  • Beebe, K.E., Bale, A. (2021). “Pilgrimage and Textual Culture: The Production, Exchange, and Reception of Pilgrimage Texts in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe". Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Special edition of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 51 (1) Durham, NC, Duke University Press. https://read.dukeupress.edu/jmems
  • Beebe, K.E., Davis, A., Gleadle, K. (2012). Women’s History Review. Special Issue: “Space, Place and Gendered Identities: Feminist History and the Spatial Turn.”. Women's History Review. 21 (4) 523-689. London, Taylor & Francis. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rwhr20/21/4
  • Video and Audiovisual Material

  • Beebe, K. (2018). A Virtual Pilgrimage: Felix Fabri's ‘Sionpilger’ and the Unicorn.. Other. London, Birkbeck Leverhulme International Network on Pilgrim Libraries. https://youtu.be/Ci503nExMgk

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Beebe, K., "Combining Digital and Traditional Historical Methods to Understand the Growth of Observant Reform in Late-Medieval Swabia," sponsored by Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst / German Academic Exchange Service, International, $9000 Funded. (2022 - 2022).
  • Beebe, K.E., "Visualizing Observance: Social Networks and the Spread of Reform in Late-Medieval Germany," sponsored by Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst / German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), International, $9000 Funded. (2019 - 2019).
  • Grant - Research

  • Beebe, K.E., "University of North Texas Research Seed Grant: $5,000," sponsored by Division of Research and Innovation, University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2025).
  • Beebe, K.E., "University of North Texas Scholarly and Creativity Award (SCA)," sponsored by College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, UNT Office of Research and Economic Development, University of North Texas, $4000 Funded. (2023 - 2023).
  • Beebe, K., "University of North Texas Global Venture Fund," sponsored by University of North Texas International Affairs, University of North Texas, $3000 Funded. (2022 - 2022).
  • Beebe, K. (Principal), "Mentorship for Pursuing Digital Humanities Opportunities," sponsored by Office of the Provost, University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $1500 Funded. (2021 - 2022).
  • Beebe, K.E. (Supporting), "Digital Arts & Humanities Start-Up Grant," sponsored by University of Texas at Arlington, Other, $10000 Funded. (2016 - 2016).
  • Beebe, K.E., Mixson, J.D. (Co-Principal), "Digital Arts & Humanities Start-Up Grant," sponsored by University of Texas at Arlington, Other, $9070 Funded. (2016 - 2016).
  • Grant - Service

  • Beebe, K. (Co-Principal), Martin, J. (Co-Principal), Torget, A.J. (Co-Principal), Moye, T. (Co-Principal), "Learning from Mentors to Create a Center for Digital Humanities at UNT," sponsored by Office of the Provost, University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2021 - 2022).
  • Beebe, K., "The 2020 MAA/CARA Conference Grant for Regional Associations and Programs," sponsored by Medieval Academy of America and its Committee on Centers and Regional Associations, National, $1000 Funded. ( - 2020).
  • Beebe, K., "The 2020 MAA/CARA Conference Grant for Regional Associations and Programs," sponsored by Medieval Academy of America and its Committee on Centers and Regional Associations, National, Funded. ( - 2020).
  • Grant - Teaching

  • Beebe, K. (Principal), "Inaugural University of North Texas Special Collections Coursework Development Grant," sponsored by UNT Willis Library Special Collections, University of North Texas, $500 Funded. (2019 - 2020).
  • Beebe, K.E. (Principal), "Kent Library Endowment Fund Grant," sponsored by Southeast Missouri State University, Other, $250 Funded. ( - 2012).
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