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Professor of History
Yale University, Ph.D. 1979
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Research Interests: Women's history; medieval history; monastic history.
Selected Works:
"Suicide and its Prevention in Later Medieval France," in The Proceedings of the Western Society for French Studies 26 (2000): 184-191.
"La théorie de la clôture et l'activité réelle des moniales françaises du XIe au XIIIe siècle," in Les religieuses dans le cloître et dans le monde 4 CERCOR (St. Etienne: l'Université de Saint-Etienne, 1994): 491-505.
Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991). Published in paperback 1993.
"The Cloistering of Medieval Nuns: Release or Repression, Reality or Fantasy?" in Gendered Domains: Rethinking Public/Private in Women's History, Essays from the 7th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, ed. Dorothy Helly and Susan Reverby (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991): 27-39.
"Finding their Place: The Rich Roles of Religious Women in the Middle Ages," in Views of Women's Lives in Western Tradition, ed. Frances R. Keller (Lampeter, UK: Edwin Mellin Press, 1990): 219-243.
"Family Involvement in the Lives of Medieval Nuns and Monks," in Monks, Nuns, and Friars in Mediaeval Society, ed. Edward King et al. (Louvain: Peeters, 1989).
"Agnes of Burgundy: an Eleventh-Century Woman as Monastic Patron," The Journal of Medieval History 15 (1989): 93-104.
"Pious Legends and Historical Realities: The Foundation Myths of la Trinité, Bonport, and Holyrood," Revue bénédictine 91 (1981): 184-193.
Prayer, Patronage, and Power: The Abbey of la Trinité, Vendôme, 1032-1187 (NY: NYU Press, 1981).
"La légende de fondation de la Trinité, Vendôme," Bulletin de la société archéologique, scientifique et littéraire du Vendômois (1978): 68-72.
"Virtus: Transition from Classical Latin to the De civitate Dei," Augustinian Studies 6 (1975): 117-124.
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