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Barbara H. Rosenwein

Barbara H. Rosenwein
Title: Professor 
Office: Crown Center 511 
Phone: 773.508.2223 
E-mail: brosenw@luc.edu 


Personal Information

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 Byzantine in the Middle Ages

Courses for Spring 2010:

Hist 101: Western Ideas - Institutions to 1648
Hist 300: History Capstone

Office Hours:

Tuesday 9:00-10:00 a.m.
Thursday: 1:15-2:15 p.m.

Recent Publications

Books: 

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:

"Problems and Methods in the History of Emotions," Passions in Context: Journal of the History and Philosphy of the Emotions 1 (2010), forthcoming.

"Circles of Affection in Cluniac Charters," in D. Boisseuil, P. Chastang, L. Feller and J. Morsel (eds), Ecritures de l'espace social.  Mélanges d'histoire médiévale offerts à Monique Bourin par ses élèves et ses amis (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, forthcoming, 2010).

"Love, Passion, Ecstasy, and Pain in Thomas Aquinas," trans. (into Hebrew) Yitzak Hen, Historia: Journal of the Historical Society of Israel (2010) forthcoming.

"Emotion Words," in Le sujet de l'émotion au Moyen Âge, ed. Damien Boquet and Piroska Nagy (Paris: Beauchesne, 2009), pp. 93-106.

Gender als Analysekategorie in der Emotionsforschung" Feministische Studien (2008), vol. 1: Gefühle (2008), pp. 92-106.

Office Hours

 


Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages



Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe



Anger's Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages



Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts



A Short History of the Middle Ages



Reading the Middle Ages



The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures



Debating the Middle Ages: Issues and Readings


 

 

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Department of History
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