Courtney Barter-Colcord received a BA in History and BA in Philosophy from Plymouth State University in 2017, and a MA in History from the University of Vermont in 2019. Her research primarily focuses on women’s religion in medieval Europe, particularly within the beguine movement and the mendicant orders in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Publications

“Richer of Senones and the peculiar story of Sibylla of Marsal: pseudo-sanctity, mendicants, and the end of the world in the Gesta Senoniensis Ecclesiae,” Journal of Medieval History (forthcoming).

“‘On Sibylla, Beguine of Marsal, and Her Acts’: Interpretations of Sanctity in Richer’s Deeds of the Church of Senones,” Magistra 26, no. 2 (Winter 2020): 18-35.