Participant Info
- First Name
- Sarah
- Last Name
- Luginbill
- Country
- United States
- State
- TX Texas
- scluginbill@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Trinity University
- Website URL
- medievalportablealtars.wordpress.com
- Keywords
- Medieval Europe, reliquaries, portable altars, relics, devotion, materiality, portable Mass kits
- Availability
- 1
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I received my PhD in History from the University of Colorado in Boulder in May 2021. My current research focuses on medieval constructions of space, memory, and identity through material culture. In particular, I question how portable altars demonstrate the entanglement of religion, things, and ideologies between 1000 and 1270 CE. See more at medievalportablealtars.com.
My research interests also include the movement and manipulation of raw materials, such as metals, gemstones, and ivory, as well as the consolidation of identities through the creation of relic-lists.
I received a B.A. in History, with minors in Art History and Medieval & Renaissance Studies, from Trinity University in 2014. I have interned under the tapestry curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, as well as participated in the archaeological excavation of the Binchester Roman Fort near Durham, England.
I am a member of the Medieval Academy of America, the International Center of Medieval Art, and the American Historical Association.
- Recent Publications
- “The Medieval Portable Altar Database.” Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief. November 2020. doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2020.1843915.
- Book Review: Cynthia Hahn, Passion Relics and the Medieval Imagination: Art, Architecture, and Society (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020) for Comitatus (2020), 278-279. doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2020.0024.
- “White Supremacy and Medieval History: A Brief Overview.” Erstwhile (blog), March 2020. https://erstwhileblog.com/2020/03/18/white-supremacy-and-medieval-history-a-brief-overview/.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @salu1292
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- England, France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- Medieval, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Art & Architectural History, Material Culture, Military, Religion, World War I, World War II
