Ellen Wurtzel

  • Associate Professor of History

Areas of Study

Education

  • BA, Duke University, 1992
  • MS, education, Bank Street College, 1995
  • MA, Columbia University 1998
  • PhD, Columbia University, 2007

Biography

Teaching Interests: Medieval and early modern Europe, especially social, political, and cultural formation of the West from 1000-1700

Research Interests: Urban and legal history, state development, and gender.

Professor Wurtzel’s book project is about the transformation of urban jurisdiction and space in the context of early modern state formation in the southern Low Countries.

Notes

Ellen Wurtzel Article Published in "French Historical Studies"

August 23, 2023

Associate Professor Ellen Wurtzel published an article in the August 2023 issue of French Historical Studies, entitled "Passionate Encounters, Public Healing. Medieval Urban Bathhouses in Northern France." Using medical treatises, trial records, literary sources, and archival documentation, the article argues that, far from being sites primarily associated with crime and prostitution, bathhouses encouraged sociability, brought disparate groups together, and were in fact essential to the circulation and well‐being of people in medieval cities as places of emotional community.

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