Barbara H. Rosenwein

Barbara Herstein Rosenwein (born March 1, 1945) is an American historian who is professor emerita of history at Loyola University Chicago. Rosenwein is an international renowned expert in medieval history, on which she has written a number of influential works.

Early life and education[]

Barbara H. Rosenwein was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 1, 1945.^[1] She received her B.A. (1966), M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1974) at the University of Chicago.^[2][3]

Career[]

Since 1971, Rosenwein has been closely affiliated with the Loyola University Chicago, where she has served as instructor (1971-4), assistant professor (1974–80), associate professor (1980-1988), and professor (1988-2014). She retired from teaching as professor emerita in 2015, but continues to write and research.^[2]

Rosenwein has been visiting professor at many leading universities, including School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (1992), École normale supérieure (2004), Utrecht University (2005), the University of Gothenburg (2014), TU Dresden (2015), Trinity College, Oxford (2015), and the University of Iceland (2016).^[2] She was a scholar in residence at the American Academy in Rome from 2001 to 2002, was elected fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1991 and the Medieval Academy of America in 2003, and been affiliated with the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London since 2009.^[3][1][4] Rosenwein has a contributed to Encyclopædia Britannica.^[5]

Research[]

Rosenwein specializes in the medieval history and the history of emotions.^[2] Her scholarship can be divided into several phases. Her earliest research centered on Cluny Abbey, on which she wrote To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property (1989). She then proceeded to examine immunities^{[clarification needed]} in the Middle Ages, resulting in Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe (1999).^[3] In the third phase, Rosenwein examined the history of emotions, on which she edited Anger's Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages (1998), and wrote Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages (2006) and Generations of Feeling: A History of Emotions 600-1700 (2016). The latter work has since been translated into Italian.^[3][6][7] In later years, Rosenwein has continued her research on medieval history, co-authoring notable works such as The Middle Ages in 50 Objects (2018) and What is the History of Emotions? (2018). Among her latest works are the book Anger: A Biography (2020).^[3] She is also the author of a large number of articles for scholarly publications.^[3]

Rosenwein has authored several works on general history. She co-authored Debating the Middle Ages: Issues and Readings (1998) and The Making of the West (2018), and authored A Short History of the Middle Ages (2018) and Reading the Middle Ages (2018), all of which have been published in several revised editions.^[3]

Personal life[]

Rosenwein is married and has two children.^[8]

Selected works[]

• Rhinoceros Bound: Cluny in the Tenth Century (1982, University of Pennsylvania Press)
• To Be the Neighbor of St. Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property, 909-1049 (1989, Cornell University Press)
• Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe (1999, Cornell University Press)
• A Short History of the Middle Ages (2001, Broadview Press) (fifth edition, 2018)
• Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages (2006, Cornell University Press)
• Generations of Feeling: A History of Emotions, 600-1700 (2015, Cambridge University Press)
• What Is the History of Emotions? (Co-authored with Riccardo Cristiani) (2017, Polity Press)
• The Middle Ages in 50 Objects (Co-authored with Elina Gertsman) (2018, Cambridge University Press)
• Anger: The Conflicted History of an Emotion (2020, Yale University Press)

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