Giles Constable

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Giles Constable (born June 1, 1929 in London ) is a British Medievalist .

Career

Constable, son of the art historian William George Constable , studied at Harvard University ( Bachelor of Arts 1950) and University of Cambridge (1952/53) and received his doctorate from Harvard in 1957 . He was from 1955 to 1958 Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa , then until 1961 at Harvard, where he then worked as an Associate Professor until 1966 . From 1966 to 1977 he held the Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History at Princeton University , and from 1977 to 1984 he was full professor and director at Harvard University's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC 1985 he accepted the chair at the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, which he accepted. In 2003 he retired.

research

Constable is particularly interested in the religion and culture of the 11th and 12th centuries, especially the Cluny Abbey and its abbot Petrus Venerabilis , as well as the Byzantine Empire .

Constable was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History from 1964 to 1975 and of Mediterranean Studies (1991-2002) and is still an advisor to Medievalia et Humanistica (since 1969), the Revue Mabillon (since 1990), and Le Moyen Âge (since 1997) and the Sacris Erudiri (since 1999).

Honors

He is a member of the Medieval Academy of America and the American Philosophical Society , the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , the British Academy and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei .

Constable received honorary doctorates from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne , Georgetown University , Longwood University and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies of the University of Toronto .

He was visiting professor at St John's University in Collegeville (1973), the Catholic University of America (1978-84), Georgetown University (1982, 1997), Princeton University (1989, 1995) and Arizona State University (1992 , 2005).

Publications (selection)

  • with James Kritzeck: Petrus Venerabilis 1156−1956. Studies and Texts Commemorating the Eighth Centenary of his Death . (= Studia Anselmiana , Volume 40), Rome, 1956
  • Monastic Tithes from their Origins to the Twelfth Century . (= Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought , Volume 10), Cambridge, 1964
  • The Letters of Peter the Venerable . 2 volumes (= Harvard Historical Studies , Volume 78), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967
  • with Bernard Smith: Libellus de diversis ordinibus et professionibus qui sunt in aecclesia . Oxford Medieval Texts, Oxford, 1972, reprinted 2003
  • with Janet Martin: Peter the Venerable: Selected Letters . (= Toronto Medieval Latin Texts , Volume 3), Toronto, 1974
  • Consuetudines benedictinae variae (Saec. XI-Saec. XIV) . (= Corpus Consuetudinum monasticarum , Volume 6), Siegburg, 1975
  • Medieval Monasticism: A Select Bibliography . (= Toronto Medieval Bibliographies , Volume 6) Toronto, 1976
  • Letters and Letter Collections . (= Typologie des sources du Moyen Age Latin , Volume 17), Turnhout, 1976
  • Religious Life and Thought (11th-12th Centuries) . London, 1979
  • Cluniac Studies . London, 1980
  • with Alexander Kazhdan : People and Power in Byzantium. An Introduction to Modern Byzantine Studies . Washington, DC, 1982
  • with Robert Benson: Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century . Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982
  • with RBC Huygens: Apologiae duae: Gozechini epistola ad Walcherum, Burchardi, ut videtur, abbatis Bellevallis apologia de barbis . (= Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio mediaevalis , Volume 62), Turnhout, 1985
  • Monks, Hermits and Crusaders in Medieval Europe . London, 1988
  • with Theodore Evergates : The Cartulary and Charters of Notre-Dame of Homblières, on the basis of material prepared by William Mendel Newman . (= Medieval Academy Books , No. 97), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990
  • with Elizabeth H. Beatson, Luca Dainelli: The Letters between Bernard Berenson and Charles Henry Coster . Florence, 1993
  • Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought . Cambridge, 1995
  • Culture and Spirituality in Medieval Europe . Aldershot, 1996
  • The Reformation of the Twelfth Century . Cambridge, 1996
  • with Gert Melville , Jörg Oberste : The Cluniac in their political-social environment . Münster, 1998
  • Cluny from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century . Aldershot, 2002
  • with William Connell: Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence: The Case of Antonio Rinaldeschi . Toronto, 2005
  • with Bernard Smith: Three Treatises from Bec on the Nature of Monastic Life . (= Medieval Academy Books , No. 109), Toronto, 2008
  • Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century . Farnham and Burlington, Ashgate, 2008
  • The Abbey of Cluny, A Collection of Essays to Mark the Eleven-Hundredth Anniversary of its Foundation . (= Vita regularis. Abhandlungen , Volume 43), Lit Verlag, Berlin, Münster, 2010 ISBN 978-3-643-10777-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Short biography at the Institute of Advanced Study.