Bøker av Constance Brittain Bouchard

You finished your dissertation. You successfully defended and are now a PhD. You probably know more about your dissertation topic and care less than anyone else on the planet. And yet they now expect you to turn it into a book?In this short work an eminent historian guides you through the process, from deciding whether your dissertation really should be a book at all, to revising, working with a press, and finally opening that box with your newly printed books inside.Written in a lively and accessible manner, this will help guide the beginning scholar to shape a manuscript into a successful academic book.

"A wonderful introduction to those new to the subject as well as a welcome contribution to the debate on the nature of the medieval nobility."-Medieval Review

The twelfth century was characterized by intense spirituality as well as rapid economic development. Drawing on unprecedented research, Constance Brittain Bouchard demonstrates that the Cistercian monks of Burgundy were exemplary in both spheres...