Professor of History
Office phone: (928) 523-8418
Office LA 224
Email: Charles.Connell@nau.edu
Website: jan.ucc.nau.edu/~cwc2/
Research and Teaching Interests
My current research interests include the medievalism of C.S. Lewis and Henry Adams; public opinion in the middle ages; issues of war and peace from the era of the crusades to the present; the idea of the crusades in history and the imagination; 19th and 20th century medievalism in England and America.
Courses Taught
History of England to 1700
The Middle Ages in Western Europe
World Systems East-West 1200-1600
1000 Years of War and Peace
The Crusades
Western Civilization to 1700
History 200
Recent Publications
Books:
Vox Populi, Vox Dei: Public Opinion in the High Middle Ages (book
manuscript in progress)
The Worlds of Medieval Women, Co-Editor and Contributor; West Virginia University Press, 1985.
Literary and Historical Perspectives of the Middle Ages, Co-Editor, Contributor; West Virginia University Press, 1982.
Proceedings, Annual Meeting of National Academic Advising Association, Co-Editor (1982); Managing Editor (1983).
Articles:
"The Middle Ages in the Quest for National Identity: England and France Compared," in Proceedings RMESC, 2004 (June 2005).
Articles on "Cumis." Marco Polo, Almaligh, and William of Rubrick in Encyclopedia of Medieval Trade, Exploration and Discovery, 1998.
Review of Sappho's Immortal Daughters, in Historian, 1998.
"Images of the Mongols Over Time and Space," paper, 34th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies, Hong Kong, August, 1993.
"The Changing Role of Crusade Preaching int he 13th century, From Lyon I to Lyon II," in Festschrift for E.W. McDonnell.
A Review of Penny Cole, The Preaching of the Crusades, in Speculum (1992).
"A Neglected Aspect of the Study of Popular Culture; 'Public Opinion' in the Middle Ages," 1991, in Edward Peters, ed. Folk Life in the Middle Ages