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Faculty

Bruce L. Venarde

Associate Professor, Associate Chair
PhD, Harvard University (1992)

3522 Posvar Hall
412-624-8437
bvenarde@pitt.edu
www.pitt.edu/~bvenarde/bvcv.html

Field(s)

Medieval European History
Western Civilization
Premodern Slavery
Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

Teaching

Medieval Europe
Western Civilization
Gender History
Selected Publications

Robert of Arbrissel: A Medieval Religious Life (Catholic University of America Press, 2004)

Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society: Nunneries in France and England, 890–1215 (Cornell University Press, 1997)

"Praesidentes Negotiis: Abbesses as Managers in Twelfth-Century France," in Samuel K. Cohn Jr. and Steven A. Epstein, eds., Portraits of Medieval and Renaissance Living: Essays in Memory Of David Herlihy (University of Michigan Press, 1996)

"La réforme à Apt (Xe-XIIe siècles): Patrimoine, patronage et famille," Provence historique (1988)

Honors/Awards

 Center for West European Studies Grant (1999–2000)
Bellet Teaching Excellence Award Nominee(1999, 2001)
Danforth Center Award for Excellence in Teaching (1991)

Project(s)

Monograph on religious culture, careers, and mentalities in Western France, ca. 1050–ca.1125, centered on the evangelist and wandering preacher Robert of Arbrissel and the scholarly poet-bishop Marbode of Rennes plus articles on monasticism, property, and family in medieval Poitou and women in the hagiography of Drogo of Sint-Winoksbergen

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