Carol Symes

Carol Symes is Associate Professor of History, Theatre, and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois, USA. She is the author of A Common Stage: Theatre and Public Life in Medieval Arras (2007), the co-editor, with Caroline C. Goodson and Anne E. Lester, of Cities, Texts, and Social Networks: Experiences and Perceptions of Medieval Urban Space, 400-1500 (2010); co-author of a bestselling college textbook, Western Civilizations ; and founding executive editor of The Medieval Globe , the...See more

Carol Symes is Associate Professor of History, Theatre, and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois, USA. She is the author of A Common Stage: Theatre and Public Life in Medieval Arras (2007), the co-editor, with Caroline C. Goodson and Anne E. Lester, of Cities, Texts, and Social Networks: Experiences and Perceptions of Medieval Urban Space, 400-1500 (2010); co-author of a bestselling college textbook, Western Civilizations ; and founding executive editor of The Medieval Globe , the first academic journal to promote a global approach to medieval studies. See less