JOHN H. NEWELL, JR . (Medieval Europe) is a Professor of History who received his Ph.D. in History with a minor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Duke University in 1978. He joined the faculty of the College of Charleston in 1978 and has held the rank of Professor since 1995. He has received Woodrow Wilson, Fulbright, American Philosophical Association, and National Endowment of the Humanities grants. Professor Newell's research has focused primarily on twelfth-century intellectual history, especially on William of Conches and the cathedral school of Chartres, the interaction between the cathedral schools and courtly literature, and the interaction between the cathedral scholars and Gothic architecture. He has published a variety of articles on medieval intellectual history, including ‘Grammaticus et Ethicus’: William of Conches’ Search for Order, in Knowledge and the Sciences in Medieval Philosophy (Helsinki, 1990); “Self and Society in Twelfth-century Schools and Courts,” Medieval Perspectives, 9 (1994): 99-111; and “L’humanisme medieval de l’école de Chartres,” Bulletin de la Société Archéologique d’eure-et loir, 50 (1996): 43-53. He currently serves as Professor of History, Director of the Honors Program, and Director of the Governor's School at the College of Charleston.  Professor Newell teaches courses in the History of Medieval Europe, as well as regularly continuing to teach HONS 120, the first half of Honors Western Civilization. Some of his medieval history courses include HIST 234: Early Middle Ages; HIST 235, High Middle Ages; HIST 337, Witches, Saints and Heretics; and such special topics classes as Twelfth-Century Courts and Cathedrals, In Search of King Arthur and the Holy Grail, and Women and Love in the Middle Ages. 

Courses:
High Middle Ages
Witches, Saints, and Heretics

Contact:
John H. Newell Jr., Dean of Honors College, Director of Governors School,
Professor of History
Email:newellj@cofc.edu
Phone 953-7154
Office: 10 Greenway
Hours: by appt.

History 235.001 High Middle Ages