Glaze awarded NHC sabbatical fellowship
Associate Professor Eliza Glaze in the Department of History has been awarded a National Humanities Center sabbatical fellowship for the academic year 2010-2011. She will use the scholarly reassignment time at the National Humanities Center to complete a book on medical history in southern Italy during the 11th and 12th centuries. Glaze's project, titled "Gariopontus and the Salernitans: the 'Passionarius' and Medical Practice in Southern Italy, c. 1000-1200," will include an edition and translation, with scholarly commentary and analysis, of the medical book called Passionarius or Book of Diseases, which originated in Salerno, Italy, early in the 11th century. The text and its significance has never been examined prior to Glaze's studies of it; she has identified and examined more than 68 surviving manuscripts – fewer than 10 of which were known previously – in major libraries and private collections across Europe and the U.S.Glaze's research is part of a collaborative effort to discover and understand the origins and pedagogical processes of medical study and practice at Salerno, which is not well documented. Her book will be published as part of the series "Edizione Nazionale 'La Scuola Medica Salernitana'" by SISMEL, la Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino, based in Florence, Italy.
"It is a tremendous honor to be awarded a position at the National Humanities Center, for which I’m very grateful" says Glaze. “A stint at the NHC will make it possible for me to complete the analysis of vast quantities of archival data I collected from various monastic, municipal and national manuscript collections all across Italy in 2008, and to ready my text for publication by SISMEL." The center is located in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina.
A fellow of the American Academy in Rome, Glaze teaches the History of Western Medicine from Antiquity to the Renaissance, the Norman Conquests, the Age of Crusade and the Byzantine Empire.
