Florence Eliza Glaze is Associate Professor of History at Coastal, where she joined the faculty in Fall 2003. She served as co-director of the University Honors Program from 2005-2007, before winning the Andrew W. Mellon Rome Prize in Medieval Studies. During her months in Rome, Eliza collected evidence for her study of the origins of medical textuality, pedagogy and practice in Salerno, Italy during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Eliza returns annually to Italy for research and teaching. In Summer 2009 she participated in the 11th Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences, an intensive, collaborative, multi-national seminar hosted by the Max Planck Institut (Berlin), the Wellcome Trust (London), and the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (Naples). The Ischia seminar was originally founded by the great medical historian Mirko Grmek. In October 2009, Eliza delivered two master-lectures in Salerno & Ischia as part of the University of Tennessee Medical Center's "Search for the Healthy City IV". She will present a paper at the 2010 meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (New Haven), and in June 2010, she will lead, with Professor Melissa Urso, a CCU Summer I Study Abroad Program in Rome.

Eliza's research explores the processes by which medical knowledge was transmitted from the ancient Mediterranean into Western Europe via classroom experiences and textual media. She is particularly active in analyzing the Latin manuscripts where Greek and Arabic terminologies, procedures and concepts were glossed or commented upon, and which conveyed learned medical traditions from the ancient Mediterranean, Byzantine and Islamic worlds into 11th and 12th century Europe. Her ultimate interest is two-fold: to recover and identify the transmission and medieval interpretations of specialized material from the Mediterranean world, and to explore the social aspects of medical thought and practice manifest in surviving codices.

Current projects include editing and interpreting the 11th century "Passionarius/ Liber Nosematon/ Book of Diseases" by Gariopontus of Salerno, which survives in dozens of glossed manuscripts. The "Passionarius" will be published by SISMEL, the Society for the Study of Medieval Latin, as part of the Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana in 2011.

Other representative publications appear in Science (Feb. 25, 2005), Textual Healing: Essays in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine (EJ Brill, Fall 2005), Form and Content of Instruction in Anglo-Saxon England (Brepols, Spring 2007), The Journal of Medieval & Early Modern Studies (Fall 2008), and La 'Collectio Salernitana' di Salvatore De Renzi (SISMEL, Spring 2009). She has also contributed entries for the new Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (2009-10), an exhibit catalogue on the manuscripts of Coluccio Salutati for the Biblioteca Laurenziana, Firenze (2009), and The Dictionary of Medical Biography (2006). Eliza is co-editor and contributor to a volume of more than 20 international essays entitled Between Text & Patient: the Medical Enterprise in Medieval & Early Modern Europe, table of contents at http://ww2.coastal.edu/brian/betweentextandpatient.htm. The volume is being published in the Micrologus' Library series (Firenze) in Spring 2010.

Eliza's teaching explores the interstices between intellectual and social history of the Middle Ages, including courses on the History of Western Medicine from Greek Antiquity to the Italian Renaissance; the Byzantine Empire; the Norman Conquests of England, S. Italy & Sicily; the Age of Crusades; Sexuality & Gender in Medieval Europe; the Black Death & Medieval Society; and Medieval Italy: Crossroads to the Mediterranean.