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Fiona GriffithsAssociate Professor
of
History
Cambridge University, Ph.D., 1999
Email:
fjg3@nyu.edu
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Areas of Research/Interest: Monasticism; Medieval libraries and book production; the Twelfth-Century Renaissance; Friendship; Heloise and Abelard.
Fellowships/Honors: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship; Humboldt Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; Brewer Prize, American Society of Church History; Walter Jackson Bate Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University; Scouloudi Research Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Select Publications:
Book: 
The Garden of Delights: Reform and Renaissance for Women in the Twelfth Century, The Middle Ages Series(The University of Pennsylvania Press: 2007).
* Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize, American Society of Church History
* Margaret Wade Labarge Prize, Canadian Society of Medievalists
Articles:
“The Cross and the Cura monialium: Robert of Arbrissel, John the Evangelist, and the Pastoral Care of Women in the Age of Reform.” Speculum 83 (2008), 303-330.
· Jane Dempsey Douglass Prize, American Society of Church History
· Medieval Gender and Women Index Article of the Month (November 2008)
“Siblings and the Sexes within the Medieval Religious Life,” Church History 77 (2008), 1-28.
“‘Men’s Duty to Provide for Women’s Needs’: Abelard, Heloise, and their Negotiation of the Cura monialium,” Journal of Medieval History 30 (2004), 1-24
* Reprinted in Constance Hoffman Berman, ed., Medieval Religion, New Approaches (Routledge: 2005), pp. 290-315.
“Brides and Dominae: Abelard’s Cura monialium at the Augustinian Monastery of Marbach,” Viator 34 (2003), 57-88. [Medieval Gender and Women Index Article of the Month (November 2003)].
Chapters:
“The Trouble with Churchmen: Warning against Avarice in the Garden of Delights,” in Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Carola Jäggi, Susan Marti and Hedwig Röckelein, eds., Frauen – Kloster – Kunst. Neue Forschungen zur Kulturgeschichte des Mittelalters (Brepols: 2007), 147–154.
“Herrad of Hohenbourg: A Synthesis of Learning in the Garden of Delights,” in Constant J. Mews, ed., Listen, Daughter: The Speculum Virginum and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages (Palgrave: 2001), pp. 221-243.
“Nuns’ Memories or Missing History in Alsace (c. 1200): Herrad of Hohenbourg’s Garden of Delights,” in Elisabeth van Houts, ed., Medieval Memories: Men, Women and the Past, 700-1300. Women and Men in History Series (Addison Wesley Longman: 2001), pp. 132-149.
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