BRUCE LANIER VENARDE
Department of History University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (412) 624-8437 bvenarde+@pitt.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Harvard University (History), 1992 A.M., Harvard University (History), 1985 B.A., Swarthmore College (Classics, Phi Beta Kappa), 1984
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh, 1996- Affiliate in Medieval & Renaissance Studies, French & Italian and Cultural Studies Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Tufts University, 1994-1996 Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University, 1992-1995
PUBLICATIONS
Book Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society: Nunneries in France and England, 890-1215, Cornell University Press, 1997 Scholarly Translations Robert of Arbrissel: A Reader, forthcoming from the Catholic University Press of America "Drogo of Sint-Winoksbergen, Life of Godelieve," in Thomas F. Head, ed., Medieval Hagiography: An Anthology, forthcoming from Garland Publishing in 1999 Articles "Alfons Dopsch," "Georges Duby," and "Henri Sée" in A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, Garland Publishing, 1998 "Praesidentes Negotiis: Abbesses as Managers in Twelfth-Century France," in Samuel K. Cohn Jr. and Steven A. Epstein, ed., Portraits of Medieval and Renaissance Living: Essays in Memory of David Herlihy,University of Michigan Press, 1996 (full text available at matrix.divinity.yale.edu/MatrixWebData/venarde.html) "La réforme à Apt (Xe-XIIe siècles): Patrimoine, patronage et famille," Provence historique 38 (1988): 131-147 Reviews Jeffrey Hamburger, Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent, forthcoming in Journal of the American Academy of Religion Roberta Gilchrist, Gender and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Religious Women, forthcoming in Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies Helen Jewell, Women in Medieval England in The Medieval Review 98.07.09 (www.hti.umich.edu/b/bmr/tmr.html) Ansgar Wildermann, ed., La visite des églises du diocèse de Lausanne en 1453 in Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 70 (1995): 699-700 Sally Thompson, Women Religious: The Founding of English Nunneries after the Norman Conquest in Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 68 (1993): 567-569
COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate
Lectures and section format Western Civilization I: Antiquity to the 17th Century Lecture/discussion format Medieval History I: The Early Middle Ages Medieval History II: The Later Middle Ages Medieval World: An Introduction to Medieval Studies Medieval England Charlemagne and the Carolingians (in preparation) Seminars Western Civilization I: Antiquity to the 17th Century Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages History and Literature: Middle Ages History and Literature: Renaissance and Reformation
Graduate
Women and Gender in Medieval Europe Gender in Global Perspective Readings in Trans-European History I (in preparation)
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Monograph on religious life and culture in Western France, ca. 1050-ca. 1125 Article on monasticism, property, and family in medieval Poitou Advisory Board Member and Research Scholar, "Matrix: A Collection of Resources for the Study of Women's Religious Communities, 500-1500." Consultant and author of approximately 1,000 topobibliographic entries to comprehensive Internet website on the history of female religious life in medieval Christendom (matrix.divinity.yale.edu/ MatrixWebData/matrix.html)
GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
West European Studies Center Grant, University of Pittsburgh, 1997 Danforth Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Harvard University, 1991 Hoopes Prize for supervision of an outstanding honors thesis, Harvard University, 1991 Traveling Fellowship, Department of History, Harvard University, 1989-1990
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES
Advisory Board Member The Encyclopedia of Monasticism (forthcoming from Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers) Manuscript reader/advisor McGraw-Hill Publishers Longman Publishers The Journal of Ritual Studies University of Pittsburgh Standing Committees Graduate Committee, Department of History, 1997- Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Department of History, 1997- Phi Beta Kappa Executive Committee, 1998- Harvard University Standing Committee Committee on Instruction in History and Literature, Harvard University, 1993-95. Member of board which directs policies of academic program in History and Literature and oversees all instructional matters, including curriculum, examination, and degree recommendations
PRESENTATIONS
"Women and Property in Medieval Western France: Charter Evidence," 34th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1999 "Demonizing Heterosexuality? Monasticism, Spirituality, and Gender in Western France around 1100,"Queer Middle Ages, New York, NY, November 1998 "Nuns, Nunneries, and Social Change,"Medieval and Renaissance Studies Series, University of Pittsburgh, November 1996 "Monasticism and Society in Medieval France," College of William and Mary, February 1995 "Remembering Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Holy Women: or What to Do When There Aren't Any Vitae," Conference of the Medieval Academy of America, Boston, MA, March 1995 "Women's Monastic Foundations: Describing Religious Change in the Central Middle Ages," Wellesley College, February 1995 Chair and respondent for session 'Civic Life, Civic Strife: Bishops and Their Cities in Medieval Europe,' American Catholic Historical Association Conference, Worcester, MA, April 1994 "Medieval Monastic Expansion and its Contexts," Washington University in St. Louis, February 1994 "Going to Heaven, Going to Hell: New Approaches to Religious Change in the Twelfth Century," Conference of the New England Historical Association, Worcester, MA, April 1992 "Female Monasticism in an Age of Reform," American Catholic Historical Association Conference, Oxford, MS, April 1991 "All in the Family: the Agoults and the Church of Apt in the 11th and 12th Centuries," 21st International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1986
LANGUAGES
Mastery of classical and medieval Latin and Latin paleography Proficiency in French Reading knowledge of German and Italian
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