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Brian Patrick McGuire      Curriculum Vitae and Publications—October 2012

 

                      Since 1 February 2012 I have had the pleasure of being emeritus professor of medieval history. This status gives me time to deliver lectures to groups all over Denmark, and I am presently preparing a series of 5 lectures for the Folk University on medieval people in the Later Middle Ages.

 

                      In the spring I will continue with a series on outstanding individuals in Danish medieval history.

 

                      In April 2014 I will publish (in Danish) a new biography of Boniface and the birth of a Christian Europe, 650-750 (“Det kristne Europas fødsel: Sankt Bonifacius”)

 

                      I have for many years been lecturing about monastic life and spirituality in Trappist-Cistercian monasteries. In May I spoke at Saint Benedict’s Abbey, Snowmass, Colorado. In June 2014 I will be speaking at New Clairvaux Abbey in California and on the same trip I look forward to celebrating my “golden graduation” from Saint Mary’s College High School in Berkeley, California..

 

                      My long-term project is to write a new and much-needed biography of Bernard of Clairvaux, but I am overwhelmed by the amount of work done on him in the last years but will do my best in 2014 to rethink Bernard, his life and works..

 

Born Honolulu, Hawaii 2 November 1946. Married to Ann Kirstin Pedersen 3 January 1970, with one child, Christian Sung Dan Pedersen, born Seoul, Korea 16 April 1980.

 

Education:1964-68: University of California, Berkeley. History and Latin. 1968 outstanding academic achievement and history prizes. Highest grade point average in graduating class. Education Abroad Program 66-67 at Saint Andrews University,1968-70: Fulbright scholar, Balliol College, Oxford.

1971:D.Phil., Oxford: "The History of Saint Anselm's Theology of the Redemption in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries".  Supervisor Sir Richard Southern. 

 

Teaching, Research and Administrative Posts:

1970-71: Tutor in "The Great Books of Western Civilisation", Saint John's College, Annapolis

1971-72: Teacher in history at Danish gymnasium (secondary school).

1972-74: Post-doctoral fellow (kandidatstipendiat) at the Institute for History, Copenhagen University

1975-1996: adjunkt (Assistant Professor) then lektor (Associate Professor) in medieval history at Institute for Greek and Latin Medieval Philology, Copenhagen University.

1991-96: Head of the Medieval Centre, Copenhagen University

1996 to 2012: Professor of Medieval History at Roskilde University, Denmark .

2000-2001: Fellow of the Danish Institute for Advanced Research in the Humanities, Copenhagen.

2003 to 2012: supervisor of group projects and course lecturer at International Cultural Studies, the Humanities Basic Course, Roskilde University.

 

Invited lectures and visiting professorships:

Since 1978 guest lecturer at universities in the US, Canada and Britain.

2009 Invited speaker at Universities of London and Birmingham. 2010 Plenary lecturer at CARA session of the Medieval Academy conference at Yale; Invited speaker at the Long Hub Room, Trinity College, Dublin.

 

University teaching experience and doctoral theses:

Courses on medieval heresy, the Early Middle Ages, hagiography, letter writing and friendship, female visionaries, general introductions to the Middle Ages, Cistercian spirituality, Danish medieval history and its sources, palaeography, chivalry and friendship, medieval marriage, epic and romance literature, etc.

                      Teaching in Danish, but as a supervisor at International Cultural Studies, in English. Supervisor of Ph.D. theses on such subjects as Boccaccio’s moral universe, relics and ritualization, Bernard of Clairvaux in medieval art, the history of the theology of William of Saint Thierry.

                      Ph.D. examiner at the University of South Denmark  (Odense), Copenhagen and Århus Universities, Stockholm University and at Gothenburg University. University of Chicago.

 

National and international research contacts:

                      At the Medieval Centre, Copenhagen, organised international conferences in 1983, 1986, 1995. In 1998, with Mark F. Williams, conference at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, "The Making of Christian Communities." In 2003, with support from Danish Research Council for Humanities, led a symposium at the Medieval Centre, Copenhagen, to evaluate the life and work of Sir Richard Southern.

     Over the years since 1978 contributed to and/or planned sessions at the Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo.

In 1997 external evaluator of the Dutch School of Medieval Studies. In 2009 invited by Medieval Institute of Notre Dame University as respondent on the research of Susan J. Dudash, Mellon Fellow 2008-09.

                      In editing the Brill Companion to Jean Gerson creation of a team of ten distinguished scholars. Also a Brill Companion to Bernard of Clairvaux in similar fashion. Also contribution  to a "Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Mysticism". Articles for encyclopaedias, such as the Encyclopaedia of Childhood and Children (New York), Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopaedia (Santa Barbara, California and Oxford).

                      Contacts with medieval research groups in France, Germany and Britain: the first concerns the history and development of the exemplum genre (Institut de recherche scientifique, Paris); the second the history of medieval religious orders (Institutionelle Strukturen religiöser Orden im Mittelalter, Dresden).                     Member of advisory board Cistercian Studies Quarterly,the editorial board of Mediaevalia Lovaniensia and Vita regularis. Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter. Frequent contributions in reviews to journals such as Speculum, Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique, and Kyrkohistorisk Tidsskrift (Uppsala).    Elected councillor for the Medieval Academy of America 2009-11.

                      Elected Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy, 2011.

 

External contacts:

                      Lecture series at the Folk University in Århus and Copenhagen and at various university extension courses elsewhere in Denmark. Frequent lectures on topics of history and religion at parish halls and cultural associations. Consultant for Danish publishers and for the Danish State Television. Frequent newspaper essays (kronikker) on various topics connected with history, education, and refugee policies, in Politiken, Kristeligt Dagblad, and Berlingske Tidende.

    

Ongoing research:

                      1) The Cistercian tradition in the Middle Ages in terms of themes concerning daily life, friendship and spirituality, especially as seen in the folklore of the Order contained in its story collections. In this connection conferences in Dijon (1991), Paris (1994) and Dresden (1999) on Bernard of Clairvaux and the development of the exemplum. Work for a new biography of Bernard.        

                      2) The Cistercians in contemporary world society and in their own monastic tradition, a tradition that has led to visits and lectures at Trappist-Cistercian houses since the 1980s.  Regular contacts especially with English, Scottish, Irish and American Cistercians concerned with their medieval roots.         

                      3) Danish and European identities in the Middle Ages. Conference and book on the birth of identities, and a new history of the period 1000-1300, in Danish, for a joint Danish-Swedish publication in 1999, reprinted 2006. In 2005 a new treatment providing narratives of Danish and European identity).

                      4) A history of prayer: in Danish, with texts from Augustine to Dhuoda, Ansgar, Anselm, Francis of Assisi, Gertrud of Helfta and Jean Gerson, appeared in October 2011. Interest in the new spirituality to be found in the Danish Lutheran Church in its medieval origins.

 

Awards and outside interests:

In 1986, helped found a National Association of Danish Refugee Friends, as vice-chair and from 1988-98 spokesperson. In 1987 the "Poul Henningsen Prize" for this work and in 1993 the "Retspolitisk Foreningens Pris" (the Danish Society for Law and Politics). In the past decade, care for homeless cats.

 

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

 

1) Conflict and Continuity at Øm Abbey. A Cistercian Experience in Medieval Denmark (Museum Tusculanum. Opuscula graecolatina 8, Copenhagen 1976) 152 pp (reviewed HISTORY 62 (1977) 105-6).

 

2) The Cistercians in Denmark: Attitudes, Roles and Functions in Medieval Society (Cistercian Studies 35:  Kalamazoo, Michigan 1982) pp 421, 50 photos, 4 maps.  Reviewed in SPECULUM 59 (1984) 185-7.

 

3) Friendship and Community: The Monastic Experience 350-1250 (Cistercian Studies 85: Kalamazoo 1988) 571 pp. Reprinted 2010 by Cornell University Press, with a new introductory chapter covering new research.

 

4) The Difficult Saint: Bernard of Clairvaux and his Tradition (Cistercian Publications,1991) 317 pp.

 

5) Brother and Lover: Aelred of Rievaulx (Crossroad Publishers: New York, 1994) 186 pp.

 

6) A Guide to Medieval Denmark/Guide til Middelalderens Danmark, trans. to Danish by Ann Kirstin Pedersen (C.A. Reitzel, Copenhagen, 1994), 240 pages in English and Danish.

 

7) Jean Gerson. Early Works, translation and introduction. Classics of Western Spirituality (Paulist Press, Mahwah, New Jersey, 1998), 482 pp.

 

8) (with Kim Esmark): Europa 1000-1300. Roskilde Universitetsforlag, 1999. 330 pp. Swedish translation: Tusen År i Europa. Band I 1000-1300. Historiska Media, Lund, 363 pp.

 

9) Mennesker og kultur i Danmarks og Europas middelalder. Introduktion og kildesamling for gymnasiet og HF. Århus: Systimes Forlag, 2001. 167 pp. (Introduction to medieval history and translated sources).

 

10) Friendship and Faith: Cistercian Men, Women and their Stories, 1100-1250. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2002, 350 pp (reprint of articles from the 1980s on Cistercian topics, with a new introduction).

 

11) Den levende middelalder: Fortællinger om dansk og europæisk identitet (The Living Middle Ages: Narratives of Danish and European Identity), essay collection 2005, Gyldendal, Copenhagen. 301 pages.

 

12) Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press), 2005. 441 pages.

 

13) Da Himmelen kom nærmere: Fortællinger om Danmarks kristning 700-1300 (When Heaven Came Closer: Narratives of Denmark's Christianization) (Frederiksberg, Alfa, 2008, reprinted 2009).262 p.

 

14) Den første europæer. Bernard af Clairvaux (The First European. Bernard of Clairvaux) (Frederiksberg, Alfa, 2009), 298 p.

 

15) Hjælp mig Herre: Bøn gennem 1000 År (Help me, Lord: Prayer through 1000 Years) (Frederiksberg, Alfa, 2011), 285 p., i samarbejde med Henrik Christiansen (in cooperation with Henrik Christiansen)

 

16) Spejl og kilde: Den nye spiritualitet (Mirror and Source: The new spirituality) (Frederiksberg, Alfa 2012), 150 p.

 

BOOKS EDITED

 

1) Kulturblomstring og samfundskrise i 1300-tallet (Cultural Flowering and Social Crisis in the 14th Century) (The Medieval Centre, Copenhagen University 1979, republished C.A. Reitzel, Copenhagen 1985), 204 pp, 40 photos

 

2) Trivialitteratur og samfund i latinsk middelalder: Caesarius af Heisterbach (The Medieval Centre, Copenhagen 1982), 213 pp including 30 illustrations.

 

3) Mennesker i Danmarks og Europas Middelalder (Medieval People) (The Medieval Centre and C.A. Reitzel, Copenhagen, 1986) 350 pp

 

4) War and Peace in the Middle Ages (Medieval Centre and C.A. Reitzel, Copenhagen 1987).     

 

5) Autoritet i middelalderen (Authority in the Middle Ages) (The Medieval Centre and C.A. Reitzel, Copenhagen 1991), 200 pp.

 

6) The Birth of Identities: Denmark and Europe in the Middle Ages (C. A. Reitzel, 1996), 363 pp.

 

7) A Companion to Jean Gerson, vol. 3 of Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition (Leiden & Boston, 2006), 431 p.

 

8) A Companion to Bernard of Clairvaux, vol 25 of Brill’s Companion to the Christian Tradition (Leiden & Boston, 2011), 405 p.

 

SELECT ARTICLES 1994-2011 (including only a few of those in Danish)

 

“In Search of the Good Mother: Twelfth-Century Celibacy and Affectivity,” in Motherhood, Religion, and Society in Medieval Europe, 400-1400. Essays Presented to Henrietta Leyser, ed. Conrad Leyser and Lesley Smith (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011) 85-102.

                     

c.1080-1215: Culture and History” in Samuel Fanous and Vincent Gillespie, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Mysticism (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 29-47.

 

“Becoming a Father and a Husband: St. Joseph in Bernard of Clairvaux and Jean Gerson,” in Joseph F. Chorpenning, ed., Joseph of Nazareth Through the Centuries (Philadelphia PA: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2011) 49-61.   

 

“Jean Gerson and the Renewal of Scholastic Discourse 1400-1415,” in Knowledge, Discipline and Power in the Middle Ages. Essays in Honour of David Luscombe, ed. Joseph Canning, Edmund King and Martial Staub (Leiden: Brill, 2011), 129-44.

                     

“Saint Bernard on the Cistercian Circuit,” Cistercian Studies Quarterly 46 (2011), 67-81.

 

“Den kristne udfordring: Velfærdsstatens ophav(The Christian challenge: The origins of the welfare state),” in Helsingør Stift. Jubilæumsbog 50 År, red. Claus Bjerregaard et alii (Helsingør, 2010), 79-82.

 

Vretas nonner i europæisk perspektiv (The nuns of Vreta Abbey in a European perspective),” Fokus Vreta Kloster, red. Göran Tagesson, Elisabet Regner, Birgitta Alinder & Lars Ladell (Stockholm: Statens historiska museum, 2010), 243-56.

                     

"Cistercian Origins in Denmark and Sweden: the Twelfth Century Founders," in Itinéraires du savoir de l'Italie à la Scandinavie (Xe-XVI siècle). Etudes offertes à Elisabeth Mornet, dir. Corinne Péneau (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2009), 85-97.

                     

"Spirituality and Mentality in Medieval Danish Monasteries", in Glaube, Macht und Pracht. Geistliche Gemeinschaften des Ostseeraums im Zeitalter der Backsteingotik, hrst. Oliver Auge, Felix Biermann und Christofer Herrmann (Rahden/Westfalen: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2009), 273-82.

                     

"The Charism of Friendship in the Monastic Institution: A Meditation on Anselm and Bernard", Institution und Charisma. Festschrift für Gert Melville zum 65. Geburtstag, herausgegeben Franz J. Felten, Annette Kehnel und Stefan Weinfurter (Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2009), 425-36.

                     

”Bernard of Clairvaux,” in The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, ed. Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis, vol. 2 of Medieval Philosophy of Religion (Durham, Eng., 2009), 109-119.

                     

"Monastic and Religious Orders c. 1100-1300", in The Cambridge History of Christianity. Vol. 4: Christianity in Western Europe c. 1100-c. 1500, ed. Miri Rubin and Walter Simons (Cambridge University Press, 2009), 54-72.

                     

Contribution as Faculty Opponent, Stockholm University, for Biörn Tjällen, "Church and nation: a fresh approach", Svensk Historisk Tidskrift 2008/2, 215-20.

                     

"Writing about the Difficult Saint. Bernard of Clairvaux and Biography", Medeltidens mångfald. , Studier i samhällsliv, kultur och kommunikation tillägnade Olle Ferm, red. Göran Dahlbäck et alii. Sällskapet Runica et Mediaevalia (Stockholm, 2007), 267-81.

 

« Europæisk Middelalder, » in Fokus. Kernestof i historie. Fra antikken til reformationen, ed. Ulrik Grubb, Karl-Johann Hemmersam og Jacob Ringsing Jensen (København: Gyldendal, 2007. 2. oplag 2008) 95-124.

    

"The Cistercians as a Scandinavian Elite", in Les élites nordique et l'Europe occidental, xiie-xve siècle, éd. Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen et Élisabeth Mornet (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2007), 113-25.

 

« Venskab i middelalderens kristne tradition (Friendship in the medieval Christian tradition) », in Vänner, patroner och klienter i Norden 900-1800 (Reykjavík: Islands univesitets förlag, 2007), 21-36.

     

"Love of Learning: Remembering Jean Leclercq," The American Benedictine Review 57 (2006), 41-59.

     

"A Benedictine-Cistercian Source: The Book Birgitta Kept on her Person", in Birgittiana 16 (Napoli, 2004), 81-106.

   

"Visionary Women Who Did What They Wanted And Men Who Helped Them," i Martin Gosman (red.), The Prime of Their Lives. Wise Old Women in Pre-industrial Society. Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, vol. 12. (Groningen: Peeters, 2005), 103-22

    

"Cistercian Storytelling–A Living Tradition: Surprises in the World of Research," Cistercian Studies Quarterly 39 (2004), 281-309.

 

 "Jean Gerson, the Shulammite, and the Maid," i Ann W. Astell and Bonnie Wheeler (eds.), Joan of Arc and Spirituality, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 183-92.

   

 "When Jesus did the Dishes: The Transformation of Late Medieval Spirituality," in Mark W. Williams (red.), The Making of Christian Communities (London: Anthem Press, 2004), 131-52.

    

"Affectivity in Monastic and Scholastic Material Cultures: A Comparison", Materielle Kultur und Emotionen im Mittelalter, ed. Gerhard Jaritz, Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters, Krems: Verlag der Österreischischen Akademie der Wissenschaften: Vienna, 2003), 133-49.  

   

 "Bernard's Concept of a Cistercian Order: Vocabulary and Context," Cîteaux Commentarii Cistercienses 54 (2003), 225-49.

   

"Bernard of Clairvaux", A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, ed. Jorge J. E. Gracia and Timothy B. Noone (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), 209-14.

   

"Patterns of Male Affectivity in the Late Middle Ages: The Case of Jean Gerson", Varieties of Devotion in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Susan C. Karant-Nunn, ed. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), 163-78.

     

"Aelred's Attachments: Individual Growth in Community Life," Das Eigene und das Ganze. Zum Individuellen im mittelalterlichen Religiosentum Gert Melville, Markus Schürer (Hg.), (Münster: Lit Verlag, 2002), 439-65.

     

"In Search of Bernard's Legacy: Jean Gerson and a Lifetime of Devotion", i Praise No Less than Charity. Studies in Honor of M. Chrysogonus Waddell, ed. E. Rozanne Elder (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 2002), 285-328.

   

"Religion and Mentality in the High Middle Ages: An Essay on Denmark and Europe", Medieval Spirituality in Scandinavia and Europe. A Collection of Essays in Honour of Tore Nyberg, ed. Lars Bisgaard, (Odense University Press, 2001), 87-97.

      

"Charity and Unanimity: The Invention of the Cistercian Order. A Review Article", Cîteaux Commentarii Cistercienses 51 (2000-2001), 285-97.

   

"Friendship and Scholarship in Medieval Germany", in Nancy van Deusen, ed., Medieval Germany: Associations and Delineations (Ottawa, Canada: Institute of Mediaeval Music, 2000), 29-48.

     

"Absalon's Spirituality: A Man Attached to Holy Men", in Karsten Friis-Jensen and Inge Skovgaard-Petersen, edd., Archbishop Absalon of Lund and his World (Roskilde Museums Forlag, 2000), 71-87.

      

"Heloise and the Consolation of Friendship", in Bonnie Wheeler (ed.), Listening to Heloise. The voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman (New York: Saint Martin's Press, 2000), 303-21.

     

"Was Alberic the Real Founder of Cîteaux?", Cistercian Studies Quarterly 34 (1999), 139-56

     

"Jean Gerson and Traumas of Masculine Affectivity and Sexuality", Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities. Men in the Medieval West, ed. Jacques Murray (Garland Medieval Casebooks. New York and London, 1999), 45-72

     

"Jean Gerson and the End of Spiritual Friendship: Dilemmas of Conscience", Friendship in Medieval Europe, ed. Julian Haseldine (Sutton Publishing: Stroud, Gloucestershire, England), 229-250

     

"Shining forth like the Dawn: Jean Gerson's Sermon to the Carthusians", in Carolyn Muessig, ed., Medieval Monastic Preaching (London, Boston, Köln: Brill, 1998), 37-52.

    

"Les mentalités des cisterciens dans les recueils d'exempla du XIIe siècle: Une nouvelle lecture du Liber visionum et miraculorum de Clairvaux", in Jacques Berlioz et Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu, Les Exempla médiévaux: Nouvelles perspectives (Honoré Champion Éditeur: Paris, 1998), 107-45.

     

"Sexual Control and Spiritual Growth in the Late Middle Ages: The Case of Jean Gerson", in Tradition and Ecstasy: The Agony of the Fourteenth Century, ed. Nancy van Deusen  (Institute of Mediaeval Music, Ottawa, Canada, 1997), 123-52.

      

"Late Medieval Care and Control of Women: Jean Gerson and his Sisters", Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique 92 (Louvain, 1997), 5-37.

     

"Education, Confession and Pious Fraud: Jean Gerson and a Late Medieval Change", The American Benedictine Review 47 (1996), 310-338.

    

"Who Founded the Order of Cîteaux?", The Joy of Learning and the Love of God: Studies in Honor of Jean Leclercq, ed. E. Rozanne Elder (Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1995, 389-414. 

     

"A Saint's Afterlife.  Bernard in the Golden Legend and in Other Medieval Collections", Bernhard von Clairvaux. Rezeption und Wirkung im Mittelalter und in der Neuzeit, ed. Kaspar Elm (Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 1994) 179-211.

 

SELECT ARTICLES 1973-1992

 

"Property and politics at Esrum Abbey, 1151-1251", Mediaeval Scandinavia 6 (1973) 122-50.

                     

"Love, friendship and sex in the eleventh century:  The experience of Anselm", Studia Theologica (Oslo, Norway) 28 (1974) 111-152.

                     

"God-Man and the Devil in Medieval Theology and Culture", Cahiers de l'Institut du moyen-âge grec et latin (Copenhagen 1976) 18-82 (Translated into Greek in Epopteia 87, l984, 109-50).

                     

"The collapse of a monastic friendship:  The case of Jocelin and Samson of Bury", Journal of Medieval History 4 (1978) 369-97.

                     

"Structure and consciousness in the Exordium magnum cisterciense: The Clairvaux Cistercians after Bernard", Cahiers de l'Institut du moyen-âge grec et latin  30 (1979) 33-90.

                     

English translation, Universitas Studii Haffnensis: Stiftelsesdokumenter og Statutter 1479 (foundation documents), published by Copenhagen University with Jan Pinborg (Copenhagen 1979) 148 pp.

                     

"Written Sources and Cistercian Inspiration in Caesarius of Heisterbach", Analecta Cisterciensia 35 (1979) 227-82.

                     

"Friends and Tales in the Cloister: Oral Sources in Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum", Analecta Cisterciensia 36 (1980) 167-247, chart and map.

                     

"The Cistercians and the Transformation of Monastic Friendships", Analecta 37 (1981) 1-63.

                      "

Caesar of Heisterbach and the Cistercians as Medieval People", Noble Piety and Reformed Monasticism, ed E. Rozanne Elder (Studies in Medieval Cistercian History 7: Kalamazoo, 1981) 81-108.

                     

"A Lost Clairvaux Exemplum Collection Found:  The Liber visionum et miraculorum compiled under Prior John of Clairvaux 1171-79", Analecta Cisterciensia 39 (1983) 26-62.

                     

"The Cistercians and the Rise of the Exemplum in early thirteenth-century France:  A Reevaluation of Paris BN MS lat. 15912", Classica et Mediaevalia 34 (Copenhagen 1983) 211-67.

                     

"Monastic and Episcopal Biography in the Thirteenth Century:  The Danish Cistercian Account of Bishop Gunner of Viborg", Analecta Cisterciensia 39 (1983) 195-230.

                     

"Monastic Friendship and Toleration in twelfth-century Cistercian Life", Monks, Hermits and the Ascetic Tradition (Studies in Church History 22) ed. W. J. Sheils (The Ecclesiastical History Society.  Blackwell, Oxford 1985) 147-160.

                     

"The Church and the Control of Violence in the Early Middle Ages.  Friendship and Peace in the Letters of Gerbert, 982-997", War and Peace in the Middle Ages, ed. Brian Patrick McGuire (The Medieval Centre, Copenhagen 1987) 29-55.

                     

"Purgatory, the Communion of Saints, and Medieval Change", Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 20 (Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 1989) 61-84.

                     

"Holy Women and Monks in the Thirteenth Century: Friendship or Exploitation?", Vox Benedictina 6 (Peregrina.  Toronto, Canada, 1989) 343-73.

                     

"Spiritual Life and Material Life in the Middle Ages: A Contradiction?" (The Example of Cistercians in Northern Europe), Mensch und Objekt im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit . Leben--Alltag--Kultur.  Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Realienkunde des mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit 13  (Wien 1990) 285-313.

                     

"Denys of Ryckel's Debt to Bernard of Clairvaux", Die Ausbreitung kartäusischen Lebens und Geistes im Mittelalter. Band 1. Analecta Cartusiana, ed. James Hogg 63 (Salzburg, 1990) 13-34.

                     

"An Introduction to the Exordium magnum cisterciense", Cistercian Studies Quarterly 27 (1992) 277-98. Trans. to French by Joseph Longton, pp. xi-xxxv in Conrad d'Eberbach, Le grande exorde de Cîteaux ou récit des débuts de l'ordre cistercien, publié sous la direction de Jacques Berlioz (Brepols/Cîteaux Commentarii cistercienses, 1998)

                     

"Lebanese Asylum Applicants in Denmark 1985-1988: Political Refugees or War Emigrants?", The Lebanese in the World: A Century of Emigration, ed. Albert Hourani and Nadim Shehadi (Centre for Lebanese Studies and I.B. Tauris, London, 1992) 661-84.