Kimberly Rivers

Associate Professor and Department Chair (Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1995)

Research Interests: Late-medieval intellectual history; memory and mnemonics in late-medieval preaching and religious devotion.

Courses

• 57-101 Early Civilization
• 57-304 The Early Middle Ages
• 57-305 The Later Middle Ages
• 57-306 The Crusades
• 57-310 Reformation Europe
• 57-372 Medieval Britain to 1485
• 57-412 European History Seminar

European Studies Minor

History majors and minors may have already completed most of the work necessary to get a European Studies Minor. Check out the requirements at http://www.uwosh.edu/europeanstudies/

Publications

• Preaching the Memory of Virtue and Vice: Memory, Images, and Preaching in the Late Middle Ages (Brepols Press, 2010).
• “Writing the Memory of the Virtues and Vices in Johannes Sintram’s (d. 1450) Preaching Aids.” In Medieval Memories: Case Studies, Definitions, Contexts, ed. by Lucie Doležalová (Brill), forthcoming.
• “Another Look at the Career of Pierre Bersuire, O.S.B.,” Revue benedictine 116, no. 1 (2006): 92-100.
  

• “The Dangers of the Imagination: Mental Images in Mnemonic Texts, 1300-1700,” in Image Makers and Image Breakers: Proceedings of a St. Michael’s College Symposium (1-2 March 2002), edited by Jennifer A. Harris, 93-107 (New York, Ottawa, Toronto: Legas, 2003).

• “The Fear of Divine Vengeance: Mnemonic Images as a Guide to Conscience in the Late Middle Ages,” in Fear and Its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, edited by Anne Scott and Cynthia Kosso, 66-91 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002).

• Francesc Eiximenis, "On the Two Kinds of Order that Aid Understanding and Memory," translated by Kimberly A. Rivers, in The Medieval Craft of Memory: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures, ed. by Mary Carruthers and Jan Ziolkowski, 189-204 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

• “Memory and Medieval Preaching: Mnemonic Advice in the Ars praedicandi of Francesc Eiximenis (c..1327-1409),” Viator 30 (1999): 253-84.

• “Memory, Division, and the Organization of Knowledge in the Middle Ages,” in Pre-modern Encyclopaedic Texts, edited by Peter Binkley, 147-158 (Leiden: Brill, 1997).

• “The Magisterium of the Paris Faculty of Theology in the Early Sixteenth Century: The Case of Lefиvre d'Etaples’ Scriptural Translations.” Scintilla 8 (1991): 45-69. 

 Learned Societies

• Medieval Academy of America

• Society for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages

• International Medieval Sermon Studies Society, councilor (http://imsss.net).
  

 Contact Information

• Address: Sage Hall 3628
• Phone: (920) 424-2451
• E-mail: rivers@uwosh.edu