Barbara H. Rosenwein

Rosenwein received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago in 1966, 1968, and 1974, respectively.

After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1974, Rosenwein started teaching at Loyola University Chicago, where she has taught for more than 40 years. She has also taught at various leading international universities, such as the University of Oxford and Reykjavik University.

Her academic career could be divided into different sections based on the topic she was studying at each time period.[3] Her first scholarly interest was in the monastery of Cluny, which resulted in her first two books: Rhinoceros Bound and To Be the Neighbor of St. Peter. She then moved on to publishing textbooks, such as A Short History of the Middle Ages. Her third scholarly interest is in the history of emotions.

Rosenwein has produced a significant amount of scholarship on the history of emotions, particularly in the Middle Ages. One of her most prominent contributions in the field is the concept of "emotional communities," which is the topic of her 2006 book, Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages. [4]

• 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)
• 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)

• Profile on Loyola University Chicago's website
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