MEDIEVAL MONKS AND THEIR WORLD: IDEAS AND REALITIES. STUDIES IN HONOR OF RICHARD E. SULLIVAN

This volume examines the world of the medieval monk. The first section of the volume is organized around the theme of monks and the world and explores the intersections between the secular and sacred. The second section is concerned with the ideological or intellectual lives of medieval monks. These essays examine the ideas that were important to monks and that shaped the intellectual discourse of the Middle Ages.

Contributors include: David R. Blanks, Constance B. Bouchard, Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Daniel F. Callahan, M.A. Claussen, John J. Contreni, Edith Wilks Dolnikowski, Michael Frassetto, Amy Livingstone, Kathleen Mitchell, and Steven A. Stofferahn.

David R. Blanks, Ph.D. (1991) in History, Ohio State University, is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at the American University in Cairo. He has published on the socio-economic history of medieval Languedoc and Muslim-Christian relations, including Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, (St. Martin’s Press, 1999).

Michael Frassetto, Ph.D. (1993) in History, University of Delaware, is Religion Editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. He has written numerous articles on Ademar of Chabannes and has edited several essay collections, including Heresy and the Persecuting Society in the Middle Ages: Essays on the Work of R.I. Moore (Brill, 2006).

Amy Livingstone, Ph.D. (1992) in Medieval History, Michigan State University, is Associate Professor of History at Wittenberg University and author of many articles examining aristocratic family life and the experiences of noblewomen in medieval France.