George Dameron Emeritus Professor of History
Current Research
The political economy of food (grain) in medieval Tuscan city-states; medieval Florence, c. 600-c. 1400; the ecclesiastical and religious history of medieval Florence.
Recent News
George Dameron, professor emeritus of history, has written an essay on medieval Florentine church history that will appear in a collection of studies on the medieval Italian church, to be published by Cornell University Press in 2023. In July 2022, he presented a paper at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK on food security and the countryside in medieval Tuscany before the Black Death. Several short articles on various topics associated with medieval Tuscany (like the history of the 1260 battle of Montaperti) will come out shortly with Routledge in the online edition of its encyclopedia on medieval Italy. In the past year, he has also served either as a session chair or as a round table participant at two virtual medieval conferences in Florida and Spain. At the spring meeting of the New England Historical Association in Lowell, MA, he was elected to its Board of Directors. Although George retired from teaching in 2021, he continues to serve as immediate past president of the Saint Michael’s College Phi Beta Kappa chapter, Gamma of Vermont, during the 2022-2023 academic year.
(posted February 2023)