Network Early Medieval Monasticism

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).

Kalamazoo/Leeds - Conferences - New publications - News /events - Bibliography monasticism (just updated!) - Online dissertations - New titles in early medieval history - Fellowships - Jobs

Members:

(May 17, 2012)

Albu, Emily (University of California, Davis)
(department; publications)
Research interests: Medieval cartography and the Peutinger map, translation of the Casus Sancti Galli (in collaboration with Natalia Lozovski)

Kirsten Ataoguz (Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne)

(academia.edu, department)
Research interests: Carolingian Art/Iconography, Churraethia

Lucy Barnhouse (Fordham University)
       (academia.edu)
          Research interests:

Béatrice Caseau (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV)
          (academia.edu, home page, publications)
        Research Interests: Byzantine monasticism

Renie Choy (Pembroke College, Oxford University)
            (academia.edu)
            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)

(academia.edu, department, publications)
Research interests: Anglo-Saxon monasticism, archeology

Isabelle Cochelin (University of Toronto)

(academia.edu, department, publications)
Resarch interests: Monastic Customaries, Lifecycle, Entrance in monastery, Monastic Servants, Cluny

Lynda Coon (University of Arkansas)
            (department, publications)
            Research interests: Gender & Sexuality, Early Medieval Asceticism, Biblical Exegesis

Thomas Cramer (Seattle University)
            (department)
            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

Hendrik Dey (Hunter College, New York)

(department, publications)
Research interests: Monastic architecture, archeology

Albrecht Diem (Syracuse University)

(academia edu, homepage, department, publications)
Research interests: Monastic Rules, Irish monasticism on the continent, monastic hagiography, manuscript studies

Maximilian Diesenberger (Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna)
         (publications; cv)
        Research interests: Bavaria, hagiography, manuscript studies

Patricia Eshagh (Claremont Graduate University)
            (academia.edu)
            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 (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

(academia edu, publications)
Research interests: monastic economy, Late Antique monasticism; Augustine’s monasticism and anti-Donatism

Yaniv Fox (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
        (academia.edu, home page, publications)
        Research interests: Columbanian 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

Thomas Granier (Université de Montpellier)
            (departement)
          Research interests: Montecassino

Jannis Grossmann (University of Vienna)
            (academia.edu; publications)
            Research interests: Early monasticism, Pachomios, Hagiography (Greek, Coptic, Arabic), Christian Sinai

Julian Hendrix (UCLA/Carthage University, Kenosha WI)

(academia.edu, St. Gall Monastery Plan Project, publications)
Research interests: monastic liturgy, commemoration of the dead, St. Gallen Monastery Plan, manuscript studies

Charles Hilken (St. Mary's College of California)

(department, publications)
Research intereststs: Chapter room, Benedictines, Beneventan minuscule

Hans Hummer (Wayne State University)

(academia.edu, department, publications)
Research intereststs: Merovingian/Carolingian political history, aristocracy, cartularies

Teemu Immonen (University of Helsinki)
           (academia.edu; department; project description; publications)
            Research interests: Montecassino, hagiography, liturgy, pictorial arts

Andrew Irving (Notre-Dame University)
            (department)
            Research intrests: liturgy, Beneventan studies, manuscript studies, material culture

Walter Kettemann
            (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

Natalia Lozovsky (visiting scholar at the University of California-Berkeley)
            (contact information)
            Research interests: early medieval education, especially in the "sciences", translation of the Casus Sancti Galli (collaborative project)

Mante Lenkaityte (University of Fribourg)
        (academia.edu; publications)
           Research interests: early Latin monastic literature, monatery of Lérins

James LePree (City College of New York)
            Research interests: Monastic Rules, Marovingian/Carolingian monasticism
           (publications)

Sven Meeder (Utrecht University)
          Research interests: canon law
         (home page; publications)

Rob Meens (Untrecht Univeristy)
        (department; publications)
        Research interests: Penitentials

Ekaterini Mitsiou (Institute for Byzantine Studies, Vienna)
           Research interests: Byzantine monasticism, double monasteries, female monasticism
            (academia edu; publications; cv)

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

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

Alex O'Hara (Institute for Medieval Research, Vienna)
          (academia.edu; publications)
          Research instersts: Columbanian monasticism, Spanish monasticism)

Lorenzo Perrone (Università di Bologna)
            (department; cv; publications)
            Research interests: Palestinian monasticism; Byzantine monasticism; Biblical exegesis

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

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)

Claudia Rapp (University of Vienna)
            (publications)
            Research interests: Byzantine monasticism; hagiography

Philip Rousseau (Catholic University of America)
            (publications; department)
            Resarch interests: Early Christianity; Late Roman history; Ascetic culture

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)

Benjamin Saltzman (Univ. of California-Berkeley)
       (academia.edu, home page, Berkeley, 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)

Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
            (department; publications)
            Research interests: Female Monasticism, Hagiography, Monastic space, Medieval embroidery)

Columba Stewart (College of Saint Benedict/St. John's University; Hill Museum and Manuscript Library)
            (academia.edu)
            Research interests: Liturgical Studies; Theology; Manuscript Studies

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 medieval monasticism, Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian conceptions of sacred space.

Mariël Urbanus (Utrecht University)
            Research interests: Carolingian monasticism; Hildemar of Corbie
            (academia.edu)

Steven Vanderputten (University of Gent)
            (departement; publications)
            Research interests: Monastic reforms, hagiography

Marijana Vukovic (Central European University, Budapest)
            Research interests: Cassiodorus; hagiography
            (academia.edu)

Robert Wisniewski (University of Warsaw)
            Research interests: Late antique monasticism; hagiography; miracles and prophecy
            (academia.edu)

Jamie Wood (University of Manchester)
        (academia.edu)
            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)

News and Events
Please keep us up to date!

International Medieval Conference Leeds 2012:

The Network will organize four sessions on 'Regulating Monastic Life'. For more information contact Albrecht Diem: adiem@maxwell.syr.edu.

Compétition et sacré au haut Moyen Âge: entre médiation et exclusion, Limoges, July 2-4

Gallus und seine Zeit: Leben, Wirken, Nachleben [Gallus and his times: life, impact, afterlife], Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, Sept. 5-8, 2012.

Colloquium: Règles et dérèglements en milieu clos (VIe-XIXe siècle), Project Enfermenents: Histoire comparée des enfermements monastiques et carcéraux Ve - XIXe siècle, Clairvaux/Troyes, 4-6 Ocotober 2012.

Conference: Saints’ Cults and the Dynamics of Regional Cohesion, Dubrovnik, 18-20 October 2012

New publications:
Please keep us up to date!

Dey, Hendrik and Elizabeth Fentress (eds), Western Monasticism ante Litteram. The Spaces of Monastic Observance in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Turnhout: Brepols 2011 (Disciplina monastica, vol. 7): Table of contents.
Raaijmakers, Janneke, ‘Word, image and relics. Hrabanus Maurus and the cult of saints (820s-840s)’, in: Philippe Depreux, Stephane Lebecq, M. J-L. Perrin and O. Szerwiniak (eds), Hraban Maur et son temps, Collection Haut Moyen Âge, vol. 9, Turnhout: Brepols 2011, pp. 385-401.
Saltzman, Benjamin A., ‘Writing Friendship, Mourning the Friend in Late Anglo-Saxon Rules of Confraternity’, in: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 41:2 (2011), pp. 251-291.
Melville, Gert und Anne Müller (eds), Female vita religiosa between Late Antiquity and the High Middle Ages. Structures, developments and spatial contexts. Vita Regularis, Abhandlungen, vol. 47, Münster/Berlin: LIT-Verlag 2011: Table of contents.