Dr. Frances Kneupper is an Associate Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of Mississippi.
Research Interests
Dr. Kneupper's research focuses on heresy, prophecy, gender, and dissent. Her latest project is titled Beware False Prophets: Outsiders, Women, and Reformers in the Battle for Spiritual Authority (1360-1410). This work examines the role of prophecy in the contest for authority and spiritual legitimacy in the late fourteenth century. Her new research explores practices of compassion in the Late Middle Ages.
Biography
Dr. Kneupper was recently a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at Central European University in Budapest as well as a fellow at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities at the University of Erlangen.
Publications
Identity and Reform in Late Medieval German Prophecy
From the publisher:
Even within the sensational genre of eschatological prophecy, the prophecies of the late medieval Empire stand out as strikingly bitter and violent texts. They foresee the savage chastisement of the clergy, the murder of clerics, and the forceful restructuring of the Church. But they also infuse the apocalyptic narrative with explicitly German elements. German speakers are frequently cast as the agents of these stirring events, in which the clergy suffer tribulations and the Church hierarchy is torn down. Thus the central argument of this book is that popular German prophecies encouraged a vision of members of the Empire as the ordained reformers of Christendom at the End of Time.
Courses Taught
- HIST 1200 Intro to European History to 1648
- HIST 3090 The Middle Ages
- HIST 3170 Late Middle Ages and Renaissance
- HIST 3480 Women Who Ruled in European History
Dr. Kneupper is also engaged in the use of digital media in the classroom. She has authored a digital textbook entitled Foundations of European History through 1500. She is also developing an online lecture series that utilizes visual media as a resource for students and other curious people about the Middle Ages.
Education
M.A. History, Northwestern University (2005)
Ph.D. History, Northwestern University (2011)
B.S. History, Rice University (1994)