Network for the Study
of Late Antique and
Early Medieval Monasticism
As a result of
the sessions on Negotiating
Monasticism in the Early Middle Ages at the 2011
Kalamazoo conference, we decided to establish a research network
for scholars who work prmarily on the history of monasticism in
Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. The purpose of this
network is to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information and
to encourage collaboration and discussion. We also organize
conference sessions in Leeds and Kalamazoo.
Any scholar working on early
monasticism (roughly within the first millennium A.D.)
is invited to participate, particularly those working on
Ph.D. projects and those in the early stages of their
careers. |
We publish a
quarterly email newsletter with information about new publications
and projects, upcoming events, and calls for support and
collaboration. We also post information about recent publications,
conferences, jobs and fellowships on this website.
Many members of the network have a page on academia.edu.
For
more information or to join the network, please contact Albrecht
Diem (adiem@maxwell.syr.edu).
Online
bibliography on late antique and early medieval monasticism
(just updated!)
- New titles in
early medieval history - Hildemar - Fellowships - Jobs
Members:
(Sept. 13, 2020)
Philip Abbott
(Stanford University)
(department; academia)
Research
interests: reception of early Christian manuscripts, Syriac
Christianity, asceticism, biblical interpretation, and the
construction of heresy in early Christianity
Emily Albu (University of California, Davis)
(publications;
department)
Research interests: Medieval cartography and the Peutinger map,
translation of the Casus
Sancti Galli (in collaboration with Natalia Lozovski)
Kirsten Ataoguz
Lucy Barnhouse
(Wartburg College, History)
(academia.edu;
department)
Research
interests:
Jesse Billett (University of Toronto, Toronto School of Theology)
(department;
publications)
Lisa M. Bitel (University of Southern California Dornsife)
(department;
publications)
Research interests: late antique/early medieval religion
& the supernatural
Noah Blan (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
(academia.edu;
department)
Research interests: medieval foodways, environmental history
Louise Blanke (University of Edinburgh)
(department; academia.edu)
Research interests: Egyptian
monasticism, monastic archaeology
Gordon Blennemann (Université de Montreal)
(department;
publications)
Research interests: Early Medieval Burgundy, martydom,
hagiography
Kayleen Bobbitt (Grace Christian University)
(department)
Research
interests:
Carolingian nunneries and manuscripts
Bruno Uchoa Borgongino
(academia.edu)
Research
interests: race, ethnicity and the image of the
ethiopians in monastic literature
David Brakke (Ohio State University, Columbus OH)
(department;
publications)
Research interests: monasticism in late antiquity, Egypt,
Shenoute of Atripe, Evagrius Ponticus
Paul A. Brazinski (Catholic University of America, Washington DC)
(academia.edu; publications)
Research interests: Cappadocians, Byzantine, pilgrimage
souvenirs
Alessia Brombin (Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University in Tbilisi)
(academia.edu)
Research
interests: Spirituality; Palamas's theology; Greek Patristic
Literature; John Chrysostom
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom (Wittenberg University, Springfield OH)
(department;
publications)
Research interests: Monastic Archaeology in the Mediterranean
World; Landscape Archaeology; Archaeology of Religion;
Byzantine Archaeology of Monastic Settlements; Domestic
Archaeology and Food Consumption Habits
Scott Bruce (Fordham University)
(department;
academia.edu;
publications)
Research Interests: Cluniac Monasticism, Hagiography, Latin
Poetry
Frater Héctor Manuel Calderón
Muńoz (Pontifical Gregorian University, Instituto di
Spiritualitŕ)
(manueloar [at] gmail.com)
Research interests: Augustinianism and spirituality
Kenneth Carveley (College of the Resurrection, Mirfield)
(College
homepage)
Research interests: Cistercian monasticism; Hugh of Fouilloy's Cloister
of the Soul)
Béatrice Caseau (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV)
(academia.edu, department, publications)
Research
Interests: Byzantine monasticism
Domenico
Cerami (Universita di Bologna)
(academia.edu)
Research interests: Italian monasticism; monastic orders
Mattia
Chiriatti (Universidad de Granada)
(academia.edu)
Research interests:
Byzantine monasticism, patristic studies
Renie Choy (St. Mellitus College, London)
(academia.edu;
publications; department)
Research interests: Monastic intercessory prayer
Martin Claussen (University of San Francisco)
(department,
publications)
Research
Interests: Carolingian monastic reforms, Benedict of Aniane
John-Henry Clay (Durham University)
Isabelle
Cochelin (University of Toronto)
Lynda Coon
(University of Arkansas)
(department,
publications)
Research interests: Gender & Sexuality, Early Medieval
Asceticism, Biblical Exegesis
Adrian Cornell du Houx
(academia.edu)
Research interests: religion in the 10th and 11th centuries, lay
sanctity, hagiography, pilgrimage
Thomas Cramer (Charles Wright Academy)
(department;
publications)
Research interests: the social impact of religious institutions
and theology in early medieval Europe; gender and authority.
Fabio Cusimano (Officina di Studi Medievali, Palermo)
(Mediaeval
Sophia; Officina di Studi
Medievali; f.cusimano [at]
officinastudimedievali.it; publications)
Research interests: Benedict of Aniane, Carolingian monasticism,
Manuscript Studies, Digital Humanities
Jérémy Delmulle (Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes)
(institute;
academia.edu)
Research interests: Prosper of Aquitaine, John Cassian,
manuscript studies
Hendrik Dey (Hunter College, New York)
Albrecht Diem
(Syracuse University)
Maximilian
Diesenberger (Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of
Science, Vienna)
(department;
publications)
Research
interests: Bavaria, hagiography, manuscript studies
Merle Eisenberg (Princeton University)
(department)
Research interests: Gallic monasticism; sermons
Patricia Eshagh (California State University Stanislaus)
(academia.edu;
department)
Research interests: Egyptian monasticism; Coptic studies
Peter Erhart (Stiftsarchiv St. Gallen)
Research interests: early Italian monasticism. Monasteries
around the Lake of Constance
(publications)
Mattheus
Figuinha (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
(
academia edu,
publications)
Research interests: monastic economy, Late
Antique monasticism; Augustine’s monasticism and anti-Donatism
Paweł Figurski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of History,
Faculty Member)
(academia.edu)
Research
interests: political theory, liturgy
Abigail Firey (University of Kentucky)
(department;
Carolingian
Canon Law Project; publications)
Research interests: legal history, textual transmission, the
Carolingian Canon Law (CCL) project
Westley
Follett
(University of Southern Mississippi)
(department;
academia.edu;
publications)
Research interests: Irish monasticism, hagiography, Céli Dé
Deanna D. Forsman (North Hennepin Community College)
(department;
academia.edu)
Research interests: Merovingian Francia; Late Antique
Britain/England; Identity (as a situational construct);
Community (and the roles foreigners play within them)
Yaniv Fox (Bar-Ilan University)
(academia.edu, publications)
Research
interests: Columbanian monasticism
Florian Gallon (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Hispaniques et Ibériques,
Casa de Velazquez, Madrid)
(academia.edu;
department;
publications)
Research interests: Iberian monasticism
Mary Garrison (Unversity of York)
(department; publications)
Research
interests: Carolingian monasticism, Alcuin, manuscript studies)
Valerie Garver (Northern Illinois University)
(department;
publications)
Resarch
interests: textiles, women, gender, childhood, material culture
Cristian
Gaşpar (Central European University, Budapest)
(department;
publications)
Research interests: Hagiography, Theodoret of Cyrrus, Adalbert
of Bremen
Inbar
Graiver (Tel Aviv University)
(contact)
Research interests: asceticism, early monastic spirituality,
late antiquity, and cognitive psychology
Matthew Gillis (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
(department;
publications)
Research interests: Gottschalk of Orbais; Carolinigan theology;
Carolingian poetry
Thomas Granier (Université de Montpellier)
(departement;
publications)
Research
interests: Montecassino
Project
description
Jannis Grossmann (University of Vienna)
(academia.edu;
publications)
Research interests: Early monasticism, Pachomios, Hagiography
(Greek, Coptic, Arabic), Christian Sinai
Zachary (Zack) Guiliano (Cambridge University)
(academia.edu;
department)
Research interests: manuscript studies; early medieval exegesis
and preaching; Homiliary of Paul the Deacon; use and
transmission of patristic literature
Justin Haar (University of Southern California)
(department;
academia.edu;
website)
Research interests: Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman monasticism and
hagiography
Symke Haverkamp (University of St. Andrews)
(academia.edu)
Research interests: Augustine, Late Antique philosophy,
Gottschalk, Eriugena
Julian Hendrix
Charles Hilken
(St. Mary's College of California)
Stefan
Hodges-Kluck (University of Tennessee at Knoxville)
(academia.edu)
Research interests: The role of classical paideia in late
ancient ascetic theory and praxis
Hans Hummer (Wayne State University)
Fausto Iannello (Universitŕ degli Studi di Messina)
(faustoiannello [at] gmail.com; publications)
Research interests: Early Medieval Hagiography; Comparative
Religion; Early Irish Christianity; Celtic Monasticism
Teemu Immonen (University of Helsinki)
(academia.edu;
department;
project
description; publications)
Research interests: Montecassino, hagiography, liturgy,
pictorial arts
Karel Innemée (University of Amesterdam)
(academia.edu)
Research interests: Coptic monasticism, mural paintings,
monastic dress, monastic archaeology
Andrew Irving (University of Groningen)
(academia.edu;
department)
Research intrests: liturgy, Beneventan studies, manuscript
studies, material culture
Johanna Jebe (Universität Tübingen)
(department)
Research
interests: Carolingian monasticism, manuscript studies, monastic
rules
Mel Kapitan (University of Kentucky)
(academia.edu)
Research interests: sound, silence, monastic identity and daily
life
Grigory Kessel (Marburg University)
Research interests: Syriac monasticism, Manuscript studies,
transmission and reception history of monastic literature.
(academia.edu;
publications)
Walter Kettemann
(academia.edu;
walter.kettemann [at] web.de; publications)
Research interests: Early Medieval Monasticism, Prosopography,
Carolingian Annals
John Kitchen (University of Alberta)
(department;
publications)
Research interests: theory; methodology; theology; hagiography
Rutger Kramer (Institue for Medieval Research, Vienna)
(institute;
publications)
Research
interests: Carolingian monasticism, Benedict of Aniane
Jerry Lavin (Department of English University of New Mexico)
(department)
Research interests: Monastic economy, Northumbrian monasteries
Paola Lavarini (Universitŕ degli Studi di Padova)
(academia.edu)
Research interests: Monastic exile in late antiquity and the
early middle ages
Daniel Lemeni (West University of Timisoara, Romania)
(academia.edu)
Research interests: Estern Orthodox Theology and
Spirituality; Desert Fathers; Ascetic writers
Mante Lenkaityte (University of Fribourg)
(academia.edu;
publications)
Research
interests: early Latin monastic literature, monastery of Lérins
Victoria Leonard (University of London,
Institute of Classical Studies)
(academia.edu)
Research interests:
Late Antique historiography, asceticism, gender,
and the body
James LePree (City College of New York)
Research interests:
Monastic Rules, Marovingian/Carolingian monasticism
(publications - project
description
Smaragdus, Via Regia)
Lorenzo
Livorsi (
University
of Reading)
Research
interests: Venantius Fotunatus; Martin of Tours
(academia.edu)
Jorge López Quiroga (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
(academia.edu)
Research interests: Iberian monasticism; monastic archaeology
Natalia
Lozovsky (visiting scholar at the University of
California-Berkeley)
(academia.edu)
Research interests: early medieval education, especially in the
"sciences", transl. of the Casus
Sancti Galli (collaborative project)
Hubertus Lutterbach (University of Duesburg-Essen)
(department;
publications)
Research interests: sexuality, penitentials, theology
Michael Martin (Fort Lewis College)
Research interests: Carolingian Sermon Literature, Hiberno-Latin
exegesis/studies, the Italian Homiliary, archaeology
(department)
Artemio Manuel Martínez Tejera (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
(academia.edu;
publications)
Research interests: Iberian monasticism; monastic archaeology
and architecture
Bernadette McCarthy (University College, Cork)
Research interests: Irish monasticism; monastic archaeology)
(academia.edu;
publications)
Ksenia Medvedeva (National Research University - Higher School of
Economics (HSE), Moscow)
Research interests: Coptic monasticism; Russian Orthodox female
monasticism
(academia.edu;
department)
Sven Meeder (Utrecht University)
Research
interests: canon law
(home
page; publications)
Rob Meens (Untrecht Univeristy)
(department; publications)
Research
interests: Penitentials
Matthieu
van der Meer (Syracuse University)
(department;
academia.edu;
publications)
Research interests: Latin philology, manuscript studies,
commentaries to the Regula Benedicti, medieval education,
Platonism
Ekaterini Mitsiou (Institute for Byzantine Studies, Vienna)
Research
interests:
Byzantine monasticism, double monasteries, female monasticism
(academia edu;
publications;
cv)
Renáta Modráková (Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed
Books National Library of the Czech Republic)
Research interests: monastic libraries, manuscript studies,
female monasticism, monasticism in Bohemia and Central Europe
(academia.edu)
Paola Molinatto (Genova University)
Research interests: Sovereignty in contemporary political
philosophy (Foucault, Derrida, Agamben), Institutional theory
(french pragmatic Sociology, Boltanski), Roman
Law,
monastic rules, early christianity.
(academia.edu)
Francisco J. Moreno Martín (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Research
interests: Spanish monasticism; monastic architecture; monastic
archeology
(academia.edu;
publications)
Hildegund Müller (Notre Dame
University)
(department;
publications)
Research interests: Latin; Augustine; sermons
Krista Murchinson (University of Leiden)
(department; homepage)
Research
interests: confession, vernacular reigious literature, and
penitential manuals
David Natal Villazala
(facebook;
publications)
Research
interests: Italian monasticism, Ambrose, monastic theology
Meta Niederkorn-Bruck (Institut für Österreichische
Geschichsforschung/University of Vienna)
(department;
institute;
publications
on early medieval topics)
Research interests: Liturgy, hagiography, music, paleography,
martyrologia
Christian Nyampeta (Goldsmith College, London)
(department;
project)
Research interests: Idiorrhythmy as found in the practices of
anchorites
Alex
O'Hara (Institute for Medieval Research, Vienna)
(academia.edu;
publications)
Research
interests: Columbanian monasticism, Spanish monasticism)
Artur Obluski (Centrum
Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej)
(research
project; academia.edu;
department)
Research interests: Nubian monasticism; monastic archeology
Father Leonard-Daniel Oltean (EHES, Paris)
(daniel.oltean [at] ehess.fr)
Research interests: Byzantine monasticism, rules, typica,
internal life in monasteries
James Palmer (University of St. Andrews)
(department)
Research interests: Carolingian and Anglo-Saxon hagiography,
apocalyptic traditions
Krijn Pansters (Tilburg University)
(academia.edu;
publications)
Research interests: spirituality, virtues, rules
Christodoulos Papavarnavas (Universität Wien)
(academia.edu)
Research interests: Monastic space, acts of martyrs
Fernand Peloux (Université Toulouse II-le Mirail)
(department;
publications)
Research interests: bishops and monasteries in early medieval
Languedoc
Elaine
Pereira Farrell (University College Dublin/Utrecht University)
Research interests: Penitential literature and monastic
rules
(academia.edu;
Dublin;
Utrecht;
Penitential
project.
Lorenzo Perrone (Universitŕ di Bologna)
(department;
cv;
publications)
Research interests: Palestinian monasticism; Byzantine
monasticism; Biblical exegesis
Greg
Peters (Biola University)
(department;
publications)
Research interests: monastic spirituality, the Rule of
Benedict, relationship of monasticism to lay persons and
reform movements
Warren Peze (Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne)
(academia.edu;
publications)
Research interests: Gottschalk of Orbais,
Carolingian theology, heresies, manuscript studies)
Richard Pollard (UCLA/St. Gallen monastery plan-project)
(academia.edu;
stgallplan.org; publications)
Research
interests: Carolingian literary culture, especially in northern
Italy. Heito’s Visio Wettini
Matthew Ponesse (Ohio Dominican University)
(department;
project
description Smaragdus, Via Regia; publications)
Research interests:
Carolingian monasticism, Smaragdus of St. Mihiel
Michaela Puzicha OSB (Institutes für Benediktinische Studien,
Salzburg)
(Institute)
Research interests: Regula Benedicti; monastic rules;
Benedictine monasticism)
Daniel Price (University of Toronto)
(department)
Research interests: Hagiography,
Gaul, Popular Piety, Exegetical Typology, Materiality.
Corinna Prior (University of Toronto)
(academia.edu)
Research
interests: Carolingian monasticism
Violeta Pușcașu (University "Dunarea de Jos",
Galati)
(contact
information; publications)
Research interests: geographic aspects of monasticism,
romanian (orthodox) monasteries (tipology, location) - urban vs
isolated monasteries
Janneke Raaijmakers (Utrecht University)
Research
Inerests:
Carolingian monasticism, relics, material culture
(publications;
department)
Claudia Rapp (University of Vienna)
(publications;
department)
Research interests: Byzantine monasticism; hagiography
Ingrid Rembold (Hertford College, Oxford)
(academia.edu;
department;
publications)
Research interests: Carolingian monasticism, monastic
immunities)
Katja Ritari (Helsinki
Collegium for Advanced Studies)
(academia.edu;
department)
Research interests: Early Irish Christianity, Irish hagiography
and monasticism, conversion and Christianization
Philip Rousseau (Catholic University
of America)
(publications;
department)
Resarch
interests: Early Christianity; Late Roman history; Ascetic
culture
Samuel Rubenson (Lund University)
(department;
publications)
Research interests: Early
Monasticism and Classical Paideia
Annika Rulkens (University of Amsterdam)
(department;
publications)
Research interests: Monastic architecture, Carolingian
monasticism, perceptions of space
Christian Sahner (Princeton University)
Research
interests:
Early Islamic History; Martyrdom; Muslim views of Christian
monasticism
(academia.edu;
publications)
Jordina Sales-Carbonell (University of Barcelona)
Research
interests: Iberian monasticism; archaeology of monasticism
(academia.edu)
Benjamin Saltzman (Univ. of Chicago)
(academia.edu, home page, Department, publications)
Research
intereststs: Anglo-Saxon monasticism
Caroline
Schroeder (University of the Pacific)
Research interests: Egyptian mnasticism, children in
monasteries, Shenute of Atripe, gender studies
(home
page; department;
publications)
Grace Stafford (University
of Oxford)
Research interests: female monasticism in the
early middle ages
(
academia.edu)
Blossom Stefaniw (Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Faculty of
Theology)
Research interests: Masculinity and asceticism in early
Christianity, especially late Roman Egypt
(academia.edu;
publications;
department)
Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
(department;
publications)
Research interests: Female Monasticism, Hagiography, Monastic
space, Medieval embroidery)
Helene Scheck (State University of New York at Albany)
(department;
publications)
Research interests: intellectual culture; reform
movements; women.
Alexandra Sheldon (Oxford University)
(contact)
Research interests: Anglo-Saxon monasticism, burial
archaeology, hagiography, Irish and Anglo-Saxon missions
Katherine Allen Smith
(University of Puget Sound)
(department)
Research interests: warfare (real and imagined) within
monastic culture
Klazina Staat (University of Ghent)
(academia.edu;
department)
Research interests: Early Medieval Hagiography
Evina Steinova (Huyens Institute, The Hague)
(academila.edu;
institute;
publications)
Research interests: early medieval knowledge economy,
marginalia, florilegia
Columba Stewart (College of Saint Benedict/St. John's University;
Hill Museum and
Manuscript Library)
(academia.edu;
publications)
Research interests: Liturgical Studies; Theology; Manuscript
Studies
Jerzy
Szafranowski
(academia.edu;
project)
Research interests: late antique and early medieval Gallic
monasticism, ordination of monks, cult of saints
Erin
Szydloski (Ohio State University)
(department)
Research interests: Masculinity and Purity; Anglo-Saxon
monasticism
John Terry (University of Virginia)
(department;
academia.edu)
Research interests: Early Christianity, early med. monasticism,
Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian conceptions of sacred space.
Paula
Tutty (University of Oslo)
(department)
Research interests: Coptic, Late Antique, Pachomian, and
coenobitic monasticism
Mariël Urbanus (Utrecht University)
Research interests: Carolingian monasticism; Hildemar of Corbie
(academia.edu;
publications)
Steven Vanderputten (University of Gent)
(departement;
publications)
Research interests: Monastic reforms, hagiography
Fotis Vasileiou (Open University
of Cyprus)
Research interests: Cappadocians,
Pseudo-Nilos's "Narrationes", Family
(academia
edu; publications)
Francesco Veronese (Universitŕ degli Studi di Padova)
(academia.edu;
university)
Research interests: Early medieval hagiography, relic
translations, Reichenau
Jelle Visser (Universiteit Utrecht)
publications;
academia.edu
Research interests: hagiography, relics, medieval Latin,
intellectual culture, monastic culture
Nicole Volmerding (Trinity College Dublin)
(academia.edu)
Research interests: Old and Middle Irish language, medieval
Irish literature, asceticism and eschatology
Marijana Vukovic (Central European University, Budapest)
Research interests: Cassiodorus; hagiography
(academia.edu)
Susan Wade (Keene
State College)
Research interests: gender and early medieval monastic rules,
monastic hagiography, and monastic dormitories.
(department;
publications)
Scott C. Wells (California State University, Los Angeles)
(dempartment)
Research interests:monasticism in East Francia/Germany; monastic
concepts of history and sacred time; the body and embodiment,
including relics
Joshua A. Westgard (University Libraries, University of Maryland,
College Park)
(academia.edu;
publications)
Research interests: the manuscripts of Bede, digital
applications for manuscript studies
John B. Wickstrom (Kalamazoo College)
(department;
publications)
Research interests: Early medieval Benedictine life; the
Carolingian cult of St. Maurus of Glanfeuil
Michael Wuk (University of Lincoln)
(academia.edu; department)
Research interests:
late-antique monasticism, 'onastic initiations, obligation, and
social dynamics
Benjamin Wheaton (University of Toronto)
(contact)
Research interests: Venantius Fortunatus; sixth-century Francia,
monastic theology
Deborah White
(University of Glasgow)
(academia.edu)
Research interests: monastic rules, gender, Anglo-Saxon
monasticism
Sarah
Whitten
(academia.edu;
department;
publications)
Research interests: Southern Italy, law, historiography,
violence
Robert Wisniewski (University of Warsaw)
Research
interests: Late antique monasticism; hagiography; miracles
and prophecy
(academia.edu;
publications)
Jamie Wood (University of Lincoln)
(academia.edu; department;
publications)
Research
interests: Wisigothic monasticism
J. Clare Woods
(Duke University)
(CV;
department;
publications)
Research interests: Hrabanus Maurus; manuscript studies; early
medieval intellectual networks
Victoria Worth (UMASS Amherst)
(vkworth [at] gmail . com)
Research interests: female monasticism, women writers,
manuscript culture, Anglo-Saxon history
Zachary Yuzwa (Cornell University)
(academia.edu)
Research interests: Sulpicius Severius; Augustine; Medieval
Latin
Bernhard Zeller (Institute for Medieval Research, Vienna)
(institute; publications)
Research
interests: St. Gallen, charters, manuscript studies)
Alfons Zettler (University of Dortmund)
(department;
publications)
Research
interests: monastic archeology, Reichenau, literacy, necrologies
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