Constance H. Berman

Professor of History and Collegiate Fellow in CLAS

University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 52242 USA

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History Department                                                                          1415 Cedar Street

280 Schaeffer Hall                                                                       Iowa City, Iowa 52245

Tel:  319-335-2775/fax: 335-2293                                                 Tel: 319-338-9633/cell: 319-621-3221

email: Constance-Berman@uiowa.edu

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Degrees:                University of Wisconsin, Madison, M.A. 1972; Ph.D. 1978

                                Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, B.A. 1970

ACADEMIC POSITIONS: University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, History, 1988 to date

     Assistant Professor, 1988-91

     Associate Professor, 1991-94

     Professor, 1994-date, Collegiate Fellow in CLAS, 2006-11

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, Fellow, Clare Hall, 1994-95; Life member since 1995.

Georgetown University, Washington, DC, History, 1983-84; 1987-88

Barnard College, New York, NY, Research Historian, NEH dictionary project, 1985-86

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Visiting Assistant Professor, History, 1984‑85

Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, Adjunct History, 1981-82, 1982-83

edited: June Mecham, Sacred Vision, Sacred Voices, posthumous volume ed. with Lisa Bitel and Alison Beach for Brepols, in press.

The Cistercian Evolution. The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000; paperback edition in April 2010.

Secular Women in the Documents for Late Medieval Religious Women, edited with Michelle Herder, and intro. Constance H. Berman, Church History and Religious Culture, 88:4 (2008) 485-620.

Medieval Religion: New Approaches, editor and contributor (London: Routledge, 2005).

Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe: Sisters and Patrons of the Cistercian Order, editor and translator (Kalamazoo, MI, Medieval Institute Publications, 2002).

Medieval Agriculture, the Southern‑French Countryside, and the Early Cistercians. A Study of Forty‑three Monasteries. Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society, 1986.

The Worlds of Medieval Women: Creativity, Influence, Imagination. edited with Judith Rice Rothschild and Charles W. Connell, Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 1985.

“The Earliest Windmill in Medieval Southern France,” forthcoming, Avista Forum.

AWomen's Work in Family, Village and Town after AD 1000: Contributions to Economic Growth?@ The Journal of Women=s History 19 (2007): 10-32.

ABeyond the Rule of Saint Benedict: the Imposition of Cistercian Customs and Enclosure of Nuns in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries,” Magistra 13 (2007): 3-40.

ALand, Family, and Women in Medieval Rome: Reassessing a Mentor's Classic Article,” and “New light on the Economic Practices of Cistercian Women's Communities,@ Medieval Feminist Forum, 41 (2006): 64-74, 75-88.

 “The Labors of Hercules, the Cartulary, Church and Abbey for Nuns of La Cour-Notre-Dame-de-Michery,” The Journal of Medieval History 26 (2000): 33-70.

“Were There Twelfth-Century Cistercian Nuns?” Church History 68 (1999): 824-64.

“Cistercian Women and Tithes,” Cîteaux 49 (1998): 95-128.

“Les acquisitions rurales des abbayes  cisterciennes féminines,” Paris et Ile-de-France 48 (1997): 113-20.

“Abbeys for Cistercian Nuns in the Ecclesiastical Province of Sens. Foundation, Endowment and Economic Activities of the Earlier Foundations,” Revue Mabillon 73 (1997): 83-113.

"Reeling in the Eels at la Trinquetaille in Arles," Ecologies and Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Studies in Environmental History for Richard C. Hoffmann, ed. Scott G Bruce (Leiden: Brill, 2010), 149-63.

Noble Women's Power as reflected in the foundations of Cistercian Houses for Nuns in Thirteenth-Century Northern France,@ in Negotiating Community & Difference in Medieval Europe, ed. K.A. Smith and S. Wells (Brill, 2009), pp. 137-49.

“Construction de moulins, défrichements et crues au onzième et douzième siècles dans le bassin de la Garonne, ” Moulins de France 73 (January 2008): pp. 6-11.

AWatermills at La Sauve Majeure, Changes in Work, and Environmental Impact,@The International Molinological Society, summer 2007 ( appeared 2008), pp. 319-32.

ADistinguishing between the Humble Peasant Lay-Brother and-Sister and the Converted Knight in Medieval Southern France,@ Religious and Laity in Northern Europe, ed. Janet Burton and Emilia Jamroziak (Brepols, 2006), pp. 263-83.

 “Buildings in Wood, Brick, Stone, Tiles: Vestiges of the Architecture for Cistercian Nuns in Southern France,” Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture VI, ed. M. Lillich (Kalamazoo, MI, 2005): 23-59.

“How much space did Medieval Nuns Have or Need?” in Shaping Community, ed. Sheila McNally (BAR International Series 941, 2001): pp. 100-16.

“Cistercian Vernacular Architecture in Southern France, the Question of Bastides,” Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture V, ed. Meredith Lillich, (Kalamazoo, 1998) pp. 238-69.