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David M. Perry

Associate Professor
Director - Catholic Studies Minor

Education
  • Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 2006
  • M.A. University of Minnesota, 1999
  • B.A. Wesleyan University, 1995
Websites for current courses at Dominican (Fall 2011)

Other courses

Public Writing

Teaching Interests:

My classes focus on cultural exchange and production, medieval religion in all its permutations, economic activity, and daily life. I am also an active participant in the Honors program. Students interested in majoring in pre-modern European History or minoring in Medieval and Renaissance Studies should consider taking HIST 275 - Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Europe, which is taught every year, as early as possible in their academic career.

Research Interests:

I specialize in medieval Venetian history. My publications, both in process and published, are grounded in questions about the relationship between this merchant republic and the larger world of intellectual and mercantile exchange in which Venetians took part. I write about the many ways in which Venetians made sense of changing conditions both within their city and the larger world through a constantly evolving process of narrative mythmaking. It is these narratives, both visual and textual, to which I am especially drawn.

Selected Publications

Stolen Relics and Contested Memory: Venice and the Hagiographies of the Fourth Crusade. Monograph. Under Review.  

“Paul the Martyr and Venetian Memories of the Fourth Crusade.” Remembering the Crusades. Eds. Nicholas Paul and Suzanne Yeager. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Pp. 215-233.
 
“1308 and 1177: The Papacy and the Crusades in Medieval Venetian Myth and Memory.” La Papauté et les croisades / The Papacy and the Crusades. Ed. Michel Balard. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, 2011. Pp. 117-130.

“The Translatio Symonensis and the Seven Thieves: A Venetian Fourth Crusade Furta Sacra Narrative and the Looting of Constantinople.” The Fourth Crusade: Event, Aftermath, and Perceptions. Ed. Thomas Madden. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, 2008. Pp. 89-112.

Other Interests

I'm married and have two kids who take up most of my free time. My other interests include acoustic guitar and bass, songwriting (Bluegrass, Irish, Americana), Venetian cuisine, and the Red Sox.