Degree:

Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1974

Specialization:

Medieval History

Research Interests:

History of emotions

Religious, social and intellectual history of the Middle Ages

Interactions between the West, the Islamic world, and Byzantium in the Middle Ages

Courses for Spring 2012

On Leave

Recent Publications

Books: 

História das Emoções (São Paola: Letra e Voz, 2011).

A Short History of the Middle Ages, 3rd ed (University of Toronto Press, 2009) .

Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2006)

(In collaboration with Lynn Hunt et. al.), The Making of The West: Peoples and Cultures. A Concise History (Boston: Bedford, 2003; 3d ed., 2009).

(In collaboration with Lynn Hunt et al.) The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures (Boston: Bedford, 2001; 2d ed., 2005).

Articles:

"Réforme monastique et transformation sociale," Bulletin du centre d'études médiévales d'Auxerre/BUCEMA [on line], CEM 15 (2011), pp. 157-168. <http://cem.revues.org/index1956.html>

 "Les communautés émotionnelles et le corps," Médiévales
61 (2011): 55-76.

"Transmitting Despair by Manuscript and Print," in Elina Gertmand (ed), Crying in the Middle Ages: Tears of History (Routledge, 2011), pp. 249-60.

"Thinking Historically about Medieval Emotions," History Compass 8/8 (2010): 828-42.

"The Mystical Skeleton in the Thomistic Closet:  Aquinas's Impassibility," Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 36/2 (2010), 233-46.

"Problems and Methods in the History of Emotions," Passions in Context: Journal of the History and Philosophy of the Emotions 1 (2010), online at < http://www.passionsincontext.ed/>.

Interview:

Jan Plamper, "The History of Emotions: An Interview with William Reddy, Barbara Rosenwein, and Peter Stearns," History and Theory 49 (2010): 237-265

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