Toussaint Santicola Jones ’25, a music major with an interest in medieval studies, details influences for his senior thesis at Princeton – an 18-minute concerto for tuba and orchestra – in a story on the University homepage.
One of those influences was “Civilization of the High Middle Ages,” a history course taught by William Chester Jordan, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, and director of the Humanities Council’s Program in Medieval Studies.
“Professor Jordan’s class never left me,” Santicola Jones said, in the story. After turning in his final paper, Santicola Jones was inspired to write a chamber orchestra piece about falsified claims of human sacrifice at the Temple at Uppsala in Sweden. “Blót” (Old Norse for “blood sacrifice”) was performed by Princeton Camerata in spring of his first year.