How a Medieval Facsimile of a Roman Map Offered Direction in a Hybrid Classroom
Find out how an American Professor specializing in art history used a facsimile of a medieval map of the Roman Empire to enrich and deepen her students’ learning experience. Teaching in a hybrid environment during the pandemic has been quite a challenge for both teachers and students, but in this case, it turned into a great opportunity.
Evan A. Gatti specializes in late 10th-and early 11th-century art commissioned by bishops in connection to and conflict with the Ottonian and Salian empires. She was the co-editor for Envisioning the Bishop: Images and the Episcopacy in the Middle Ages with Sigrid Danielson (Brepols, 2014) and is currently at work on several projects concerned with concepts of facsimile, re-presentation, and historiography with a particular focus on the rotolus featuring scenes from the Acts of the Apostles held in the Archivio Capitolare in Vercelli (Rotoli figurati 5). Gatti is a member and current president of EPISCOPUS: The Society for the Study of Bishops & the Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages and works closely with the Power of the Bishop Conference and with whom she will be a partner in publishing conference proceedings. Gatti served as the Associate Director of the Elon Core Curriculum from 2014-2019.