Susan Crane

Biographic Data

ID3681629
NAMESusan Crane
GIVEN NAMESSusan
FAMILY NAMECrane
SIGNATURECRANE S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Arizona
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS45
WORKS AS AUTHOR18
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX3

  • The Ruins Lesson

    Susan A Crane, Susan CraneARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2022

  • Francis of Assisi on Protecting, Obeying, and Worshiping with Animals

    Susan CraneARTICLEExemplaria2021References: 5

    Francis of Assisi is well known for his devotion to all God’s “creatures,” from worms and fish to moon and stars. Francis’s devotion also has some little known dimensions that are unprecedented in his own time but that anticipate central tenets of posthumanist animal theory and ecotheology. In the earliest Franciscan documents, Francis asserted that he obeyed non-human animals as an expression of faith. He worshiped with them, protected their liv…

  • Medieval Animal Studies

    Susan CraneBOOKAfrican American Performance2015Cited by: 1

  • Chivalry and the Pre/Postmodern

    Open AccessSusan CraneARTICLEpostmedieval a journal of…2011References: 2

  • The Special Case of Four Auschwitz Photographs

    Open AccessSusan A Crane, Susan CraneARTICLEPostmodern Culture2008

    The Special Case of Four Auschwitz Photographs Susan A. Crane (bio) Review of: Georges Didi-Huberman, Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz. Translated by Shane B. Lillis. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2008. Paris, 2001: an exhibition that commemorates the Nazi concentration and extermination camps of the Holocaust stirs up a vehement public debate. Georges Didi-Huberman, a critic and unconventional art historian of Jewish descent wh…

  • Choosing Not to Look

    Open AccessSusan A Crane, Susan CraneARTICLEHistory and Theory2008Cited by: 12

    This essay considers, from ethical and historical-critical perspectives, alternatives to unconditional public access to Holocaust atrocity photographs. Photographic images have become the common coin of public awareness and historical information about the Holocaust. For the generations immediately following the genocide, atrocity photos and images of Nazi crimes served as vital testimony. For succeeding generations, however, access to certain "r…

  • Historical Subjectivity

    Susan A Crane, Susan CraneARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2006

  • Becoming Historical

    Susan A Crane, Susan CraneARTICLEThe American Historical Review2005

  • The Performance of Self

    Susan CraneBOOKPerformance of Self2002

    "Crane's consideration of 'court performances' of later fourteenth- and earlier fifteenth-century English and French literature and culture is both polished and erudite, written both deftly and with clarity throughout. A finely crafted and imaginative study."—Paul Strohm, University of Oxford

  • Anglo-Norman Literature

    Susan CraneARTICLESpeculum2002

  • The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature

    Open AccessLesley Johnson, Seth Lerer et al.BOOKThe Cambridge history of medieval…1999

    This was the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: 'After the Norman Conquest'; 'Writing in the British Isles'; 'Institutional Productions'; 'After the Black Death' an…

  • Memory, Distortion, and History in the Museum

    Open AccessSusan A Crane, Susan CraneARTICLEHistory and Theory1997Cited by: 17

    Museums are conventionally viewed as institutions dedicated to the conservation of valued objects and the education of the public. Recently, controversies have arisen regarding the representation of history in museums. National museums in America and Germany considered here, such as the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum, the Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the German Historical Museum, have become sites of contention where national histories and …

  • Romance in Medieval England. Maldwyn Mills , Jennifer Fellows , Carol M. Meale

    Susan CraneARTICLESpeculum1994

  • Reinterpreting Christine de Pisan

    Open AccessSusan CraneARTICLERenaissance Quarterly1994

    Earl Jeffrey Richards, ed., with Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno. Reinterpreting Christine de Pisan. Athens, GA-London: University of Georgia Press, 1992. x + 310 pp. $40. - Maureen Quilligan The Allegory of Female Authority: Christine de Pizan's “Cité des Dames.” Ithaca-London: Cornell University Press, 1991. xv + 290 pp. 14.95 paper. - Volume 47 Issue 1

  • "Gender and Romance in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales

    Susan CraneBOOKGender and Romance in Chaucer's…1994Cited by: 15References: 15

    fPiiiniPiiiiRiiiiiilHE THESIS of this book is that gender is crucial to Geoffrey Chaucer's conception of romance in the Canterbury Tales.In Chaucer's works, as in those of other poets who engage romance, gender pro-c=====-i vides a way of reading aspects of the genre beyond courtship alone.Social hierarchies, magic, adventure, and less salient preoccupations of romance are so intimately involved in gender that their operations are unclear in isol…

  • Middle English Romance

    Susan CraneARTICLESpeculum1989

  • Ten Middle English Arthurian Romances

    Susan CraneARTICLESpeculum1988

  • Romance

    Open AccessSusan CraneARTICLERenaissance Quarterly1987

    Romance: Generic Transformation from Chrétien de Troyes to Cervantes. Ed. Kevin Brownlee and Marina Scordilis Brownlee. Hanover, N.H.-London: University Press of New England, 1985. viii + 293 pp. $35. - Volume 40 Issue 1