Kyle G. Sweeney is Associate Professor of Art History at Winthrop University. He completed his dissertation in the Department of Art History in 2017 under the direction of Professor Linda Neagley. His research is primarily concerned with the social, spatial, and ritual fabric of late medieval cities. Prof. Sweeney is currently preparing a book for Brill on architecture and society in Normandy that examines how churches, chapels, and châteaux shaped the experience of urban space, rituals, and class interactions in the early sixteenth century. He also remains interested in the visual culture of medieval pilgrimage—a topic he was introduced to at Rice—and completed a 500-mile hike along the Camino de Santiago in summer 2024.
Book
Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture, co-edited with Alice Isabella Sullivan. AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art, 16. Leiden: Brill, 2023.
Awards
- Lorraine Kochanske Stock Grant for Innovation in Medieval Studies, Southeastern Medieval Association.
- Kress Foundation Research and Publication Grant, International Center of Medieval Art