Publications:
Women’s Monasticism and Medieval Society: Nunneries in France and England, 890-1215 (Cornell University Press, 1997)
Les deux vies de Robert d’Arbrissel: Légendes, écrits et témoignages/The Two Lives of Robert of Arbrissel: Legends, Writings, and Testimonies, trilingual collaboration with five French scholars (Brepols, 2006)
The Rule of St. Benedict (edition and translation) (Harvard University Press, 2011)
Other Publications
“La réforme à Apt (Xe-XIIe siècles): Patrimoine, patronage et famille,” Provence historique 38 (1988)
“Making History at Fontevraud: Abbess Petronilla of Chemillé and Practical Literacy,” in Virginia Blanton et al., Nuns’ Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue (Brepols, 2013)
- PhD, History, Harvard University, 1992
- BA, Classics, Swarthmore College, 1984
Education & Training
Medieval Europe, religion, monasticism, saints and sanctity, women and gender.
Currently at work on a book tentatively entitled Aelred of Rievaulx: Writings on Body and Soul, Latin editions and English translations of four texts by a twelfth-century Yorkshire abbot.
