Professor Christopher MacEvitt named ACLS Fellow

Professor Christopher MacEvitt has been awarded a Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. As a Burkhardt Fellow, he will spend the 2015-16 academic year at the American Academy in Rome, working on a book-length study of the fourteenth-century Mediterranean from two competing perspectives of Jerusalem, “Jerusalem Lost: the Holy Land and Islam in Christian Memory.” The first preserved the memory of Jerusalem among the Latin individuals and ecclesiastical institutions that fled from the Holy Land before the Mamluk conquest in 1291. The second perspective was that of western Europeans in the same era who re-imagined the Holy Land through local recreations, such as Nativity scenes and the Holy House of Loreto, and through the Franciscan presence in the Holy Land itself, an image that left little place for the crusader kingdom that had flourished for two centuries.