This seminar will examine the changing dynamic of everyday religious practice with a focus on  later medieval England through the material culture and architecture of the parish church. We will explore ordinary people’s experience of religion in the pre-Reformation period. Classes will be discussion based and each student will undertake a major research project on a topic developed in consultation with the instructor.

How can scholars use computational and digital methods to advance their research without sacrificing the interpretive, nuanced, and contextually situated stance of the humanities and humanistic social sciences?  The DH Practicum course challenges students to think of their humanities research materials as data without reducing them to data.