Christine Caldwell Ames

Assistant Professor of History
Office: 213 Gambrell Hall
(803) 777-2734
amesc@sc.edu

B.A. Brown University (1991)
M.A. Yale University Divinity School (1995)
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame (2002)

Teaches Medieval European history, with a particular interest in the history of religion. Professor Ames teaches surveys of Medieval Europe and of Western Civilization, as well as more specialized courses on the history of the Middle Ages. She has published several articles, including "Does Inquisition Belong to Religious History?", which appeared in The American Historical Review (February 2005).

Current Activities

My book, Righteous Persecution: Inquisition, Dominicans, and Christianity in the Middle Ages, will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2008. My next project will be a religious history of wine in the later Middle Ages.

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