  {"id":507682,"date":"2022-01-13T14:56:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T19:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=507682"},"modified":"2024-04-01T14:26:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T18:26:20","slug":"laura-ackerman-smoller-named-fellow-of-medieval-academy-of-america-507682","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/laura-ackerman-smoller-named-fellow-of-medieval-academy-of-america-507682\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Ackerman Smoller named a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Rochester historian also wins a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to write her third book.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/his\/people\/faculty\/smoller_laura\/index.html\">Laura Ackerman Smoller<\/a>, chair of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/his\/index.html\">Department of History<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rochester.edu\/\">Ä¢¹½´«Ã½<\/a> and a scholar of medieval and Renaissance Europe, is on a roll.<\/p>\n<p>This month she was named a fellow of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medievalacademy.org\/?\">Medieval Academy of America<\/a>, the highest honor the academy bestows on North American medievalists. The same day she learned she\u2019d been named to the academy\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themedievalacademyblog.org\/2022-class-of-medieval-academy-fellows\/\">Fellows Class of 2022<\/a>, she also received official notification for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/\">National Endowment for the Humanities<\/a> (NEH) fellowship to write her third book. Over the next year, she\u2019ll be freed from her administrative and teaching duties to work on the project, an exploration of the relationship between astrology and prophecy in medieval and Renaissance Europe.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>From astrology and apocalypse to saints and miracles<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Reacting to her selection as a Medieval Academy fellow, Smoller says she\u2019s \u201cin awe at the pantheon of medievalist scholars whose names are inscribed in the Book of the Fellows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among them is the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2010\/09\/john-e-murdoch-obituary\/\">late John Murdoch<\/a>, one of her PhD mentors at Harvard University, whose induction she attended in 1994. In March\u2014COVID-19 permitting\u2014she\u2019ll have the chance to add her name to the book at the academy\u2019s induction ceremony in Charlottesville, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>In a nomination letter, one academy fellow describes Smoller as \u201cone of the most creative and insightful students of the scientific and spiritual imagination ever to enter our profession.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_507722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-507722\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-507722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/signature-medieval-academy-630x265.png\" alt=\"signatures from Medieval Academy book\" width=\"630\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/signature-medieval-academy-630x265.png 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/signature-medieval-academy-1024x431.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/signature-medieval-academy-768x323.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/signature-medieval-academy-1536x646.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/signature-medieval-academy-2048x862.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-507722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Smoller is Rochester\u2019s second Medieval Academy of America fellow:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/his\/people\/retired-faculty\/kaeuper_richard\/index.html\">Richard Kaeuper<\/a>, the Franklin W. &amp; Gladys I. Clark Professor Emeritus of History, was named a fellow of the academy in 2015. Since 1926, new inductees have been invited to sign the academy\u2019s <em>Liber Sociorum Academiae Mediaevalis Americanae<\/em>, known familiarly as the red Book of Fellows. Kaeuper\u2019s signature is on the lower right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An expert on the intersection of magic, science, and religion in medieval and Renaissance, the Rochester historian follows two major themes in her research:\u00a0astrology and apocalyptic prophecy, and saints and miracles.<\/p>\n<p>Her first book,\u00a0<em>History, Prophecy, and the Stars: The Christian Astrology of Pierre d\u2019Ailly, 1350-1420<\/em>\u00a0(Princeton University Press, 1994), traces a French cardinal\u2019s use of astrology to investigate the time of the world\u2019s supposed end.<\/p>\n<p>Her second book<em>, <\/em>with the memorably gruesome title<em> The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby:\u00a0 The Cult of Vincent Ferrer in Medieval and Early Modern Europe<\/em>\u00a0(Cornell University Press, 2014), won the 2016\u00a0<em>La cor\u00f3nica<\/em>\u00a0International Book Award, an annual international prize for the best book on medieval Hispanic languages, literatures, and cultures. Exploring the canonization and cult of the Valencian friar Vincent Ferrer\u2014a fiery apocalyptic preacher of the later Middle Ages, who died in 1419 and was canonized in 1455\u2014Smoller traces the various meanings of the saint from the moment of his death in Brittany to his appropriation by Dominican friars in Spain\u2019s New World colonies.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Smoller weighed in on the most recent Jupiter and Saturn conjunction\u2014the closest rendezvous of the two planets in about 800 years\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/jupiter-saturn-conjunction-medieval-renaissance-europe-465032\/\">from a historical vantage point<\/a>, explaining how the event would have been interpreted by people in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the distant past, Europeans saw alignments of the planets as signs of things to come, from famines, earthquakes, and floods, to the birth of Christ and the ultimate collapse of civilization,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Medieval Europe\u2019s blurred lines between science and the supernatural<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_507772\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-507772\" style=\"width: 419px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-507772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Smoller-419x630.jpg\" alt=\"headshot of Laura Smoller\" width=\"419\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Smoller-419x630.jpg 419w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Smoller-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Smoller-768x1156.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Smoller.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-507772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Ackerman Smoller. <em>Photo by Kelly Quinn<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Smoller will use her newly awarded NEH fellowship to support her work on a book tentatively titled <em>Astrology and the Sibyls: Paths to Truth in Medieval and Renaissance Europe<\/em>. According to Smoller, the introduction of astrological theories about religious changes into Latinate western Europe began around 1100. Her investigation ends around 1600 with the absorption of astrology into apocalyptically charged polemical prophecies that ultimately fueled religious warfare in the wake of the Reformation.<\/p>\n<p>She argues that those who deliberately merged natural and supernatural knowledge in the Middle Ages helped give rise to new attitudes about nature that marked the Scientific Revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScholarship has long rested upon the assumption that astrology and prophecy were two very different ways of knowing the future, one based upon natural observations and the other derived from supernatural inspiration,\u201d Smoller writes in her NEH project proposal. Examining those who blurred the lines between scientific observation and the supernatural has much to teach \u201cabout the place of the religious and the non-rational in the construction of modern rational and scientific discourse, as well as the myriad and complex ways that people in the past negotiated their way to discovering truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>&#8216;Humbled and grateful&#8217;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A distinguished scholar, Smoller is strikingly unassuming.<\/p>\n<p>Upon learning that she had been named a Medieval Academy fellow, \u201cmy eyes filled with tears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat makes the honor particularly humbling is that you can\u2019t apply for it,\u201d Smoller says. \u201cYou have to be nominated by your medievalist colleagues; someone has to think enough of your work to take the time to write letters nominating you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides professional significance, the academy also has sentimental meaning for Smoller. Back in 1980, the day she finished her undergraduate classes in history at Dartmouth College, her mother gifted her the first year of a subscription to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medievalacademy.org\/page\/submission_guideline\"><em>Speculum<\/em><\/a>, the MAA\u2019s peer-reviewed publication and arguably the world\u2019s top medieval journal. For the past four years, she\u2019s served on the journal\u2019s editorial board.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Smoller says, she\u2019s \u201chumbled and grateful\u201d for the opportunity the NEH fellowship affords her to spend a whole year researching and writing about a topic that she finds \u201cendlessly fascinating.\u201d With the beginning of the fellowship this summer, she will step down as chair of the Rochester history department on June 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rochester historian also wins a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to write her third book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":942,"featured_media":507692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[456],"tags":[486,21422,9576,29572,16072],"class_list":["post-507682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture","tag-awards","tag-department-of-history","tag-humanities","tag-laura-ackerman-smoller","tag-school-of-arts-and-sciences"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Laura Ackerman Smoller named a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Rochester historian also wins a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to write her third book.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/laura-ackerman-smoller-named-fellow-of-medieval-academy-of-america-507682\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Laura Ackerman Smoller named a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Rochester historian also wins a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to write her third book.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/laura-ackerman-smoller-named-fellow-of-medieval-academy-of-america-507682\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"News Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-13T19:56:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-01T18:26:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fea-smoller-medieval-academy.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sandra Knispel\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sandra Knispel\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/laura-ackerman-smoller-named-fellow-of-medieval-academy-of-america-507682\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/laura-ackerman-smoller-named-fellow-of-medieval-academy-of-america-507682\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sandra Knispel\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/48a5dd20d1ade85ff52a0babb9a550a5\"},\"headline\":\"Laura Ackerman Smoller named a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-13T19:56:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-04-01T18:26:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/laura-ackerman-smoller-named-fellow-of-medieval-academy-of-america-507682\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":988,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/laura-ackerman-smoller-named-fellow-of-medieval-academy-of-america-507682\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/fea-smoller-medieval-academy.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"awards\",\"Department of History\",\"humanities\",\"Laura Ackerman Smoller\",\"School of Arts and Sciences\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Society &amp; 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