Dr. Nancy L Turner

• Ph.D.  University of Iowa, History
• M.A.  University of Iowa, History
• B.A.  University of Missouri-Columbia, History and German

Specialties:

• Middle Ages
• History of Science
• Jewish/Christian Relations in the Late Middle Ages
• History of the Middle East, Reformation Europe

Courses:

• Medieval Europe
• Renaissance and Reformation Europe
• History of Western Science
• Modern Middle East
• Women in European Civilization
• World Civilization I

Research Interests:

• Christian/Non-Christian Relations in the Late Middle Ages
• Scientific Revolution
• Alchemy in the Sixteenth Century

Publications:

• Latin-to-English translation of The Little Book of the Black Venus, by pseudo-John Dee, online publication in The Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition, March, 2007.
• “Jewish Witness, Forced Conversion, and Island Living: John Duns Scotus on Jews and Judaism,” in Jews and Christians in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, ed. Michael Frassetto, Routledge Publishing (2006).
• “Jews and Judaism in Peter Aureol’s Sentences Commentary,” in Friars and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Steven McMichael, E.J. Brill Publishers (2004).
• “Robert Holcot on the Jews,” in Chaucer and the Jews, ed. Sheila Delany, Routledge Publishing (2002).

Current Projects:

• Confronting the Specter of Unbelief: Christian Theologians on Jews and Judaism, 1250-1550 (book in progress).
• Research on alchemical cosmology and the Scientific Revolution