Evan Jones
M.A. Student
| Degrees: | B.A., Honours (Carleton), B.Ed. – Primary Junior Division- On- Site Program (Ottawa) |
| Email: | evanjones@cmail.carleton.ca |
Current Program
MA, History
Supervisors
Academic Interests
History of emotions, medieval history, monastic/Cluniac history, intellectual history, Latin, education/pedagogy, and issues of identity construction through othering.
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, Carleton University, Early Medieval History (HIST 2001) and Later Medieval History (HIST 2002).
Elementary School Teaching (OCDSB), Grades K-6, both practicum and supply teaching.
Description of Research
My current research focuses on the text, Against the Inveterate Obduracy of the Jews – twelfth-century anti-Judaic polemic by the author Peter the Venerable (c. 1095-1156). My thesis explores the emotional rhetoric grounding and organizing an attack on Jewish practices of reading and interpreting Scripture. Through my research, I hope to show how Peter the Venerable appeals, in particular, to images, sensations and feelings of disgust, which he uses to demonize and ‘Other’ Judaism for a Christian audience still establishing its core orthodoxies in the twelfth century. The text also serves to construct a sense of Christian authority (and Peter’s own authorial authority) in this debate, and in society more generally. My research, thus, serves to demonstrate how an emotionally constructed alterity was an important tool in the construction of the discursive community of ‘Christendom’.