Travel within the Middle Ages – Johnston County Library

Want to be taught extra concerning the Middle Ages and historic touring strategies? Join Johnston County Library at 6:30 PM on Thursday, October ninth, for “Shoes, Horses and Boats: Travel in the Middle Ages,” a category that includes speaker Dr. Rebecca Jacobs-Pollez. Adults ages 18 and up are welcome to attend this occasion.

Say you commit a severe crime. What would your punishment be? In sure medieval cities, a church courtroom might sentence you to take a pilgrimage, to go to a well-known city with a stunningly stunning cathedral. Not the enjoyable trip it could sound like! Come be taught among the attention-grabbing details about medieval journey. Dr. Rebecca Jacobs-Pollez will focus on medieval journey: the explanations, the strategies, and even what occurred to the physique of the king if he died when he was away from the courtroom. How far did vacationers go and the way did they know the place to go? And what position did the Black Death play? Come be taught the solutions to those attention-grabbing questions (together with why pilgrimage was no the enjoyable highway journey that it may appear) and rather more.

Dr. Rebecca Jacobs-Pollez was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and instantly started touring the world. Because her father was a member of the US Air Force, her household moved recurrently, lived in a number of states, in addition to France and Spain. She and her husband nonetheless take pleasure in touring. As a toddler in France, she was awed by the sweetness and grandeur of medieval Gothic structure, which led her to review medieval historical past. Before incomes her Ph.D., Dr. Jacobs-Pollez was an engineer on the Johnson Space Center.

Dr. Jacobs-Pollez (Dr. J-P to her college students) has a BS in Mathematics and an MA in historical past, each from the University of Houston – Clear Lake, and a Ph.D. in European History from the University of Missouri, Columbia. Her Ph.D. advisor was Dr. Lois Huneycutt, whose advisor was Dr. Warren Hollister, which makes Dr. J-P the educational grandchild of one of many best medieval historians. She has printed a number of articles, and her present analysis examines late medieval ladies’s schooling, ladies and literacy, in addition to the speculation and follow of medieval schooling. She teaches quite a lot of historical past programs at Murray State College and has taught a medieval honors course at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. She is a member of the Board of the Southern Oklahoma Library System.

For extra info, you may contact the Johnston County Library at (580) 371-3006 or go to the library at 116 West Main in Tishomingo. The Johnston County Library is a department of the Southern Oklahoma Library System.