Taryn DeLeon Mendiola

Research Assistant

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Taryn DeLeon Mendiola

Contact

Stokes Hall South 315-B

Email: deleonmt@bc.edu

Education

  • M.A. in Medieval Studies from Fordham University, 2024
  • B.F.A. in Studio Art and History from New York University, 2019

Research Interests

I am interested in researching the economic sphere of the early medieval North Atlantic, looking specifically at women's labor and textile production, as well as the environmental/agricultural base that supported wider economies. I am also interested in looking at the movement of populations, forced and free, during the medieval period and the economic motivations behind such movements.

Advisor

Robin Fleming

Curriculum Vitae

Department

History

Biography

Taryn received her B.F.A. in 2019 from New York University where she double-majored in Studio Art and History with a specialty in historical textile techniques. She continued her research at the Textile Museum of Iceland where she was in residence in 2020. There she investigated historical methods of wool processing from sheep to cloth. When she began her M.A. at Fordham University, she expanded her research interests to include not only textile production techniques but also wider economic questions of production, standardization, labor, and resource extraction. She focused her questions on the medieval Icelandic woolen industry, recentering textiles and women's labor in the wider history of the Icelandic Commonwealth.

Conference Presentations

“Weaving Wealth and the Politics of Measures: Woven Currency in Iceland, 12th to 14th centuries.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2024

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