Joëlle Rollo-Koster is a French medievalist working as a professor of medieval history at the University of Rhode Island.[1]

Joëlle Rollo-Koster
AwardsAdèle Mellen Prize (2008)
Chevalier des Palmes académiques (2016)
URI Foundation Scholarly Excellence Award (2018)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Nice
SUNY Binghamton
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineMedieval History
InstitutionsUniversity of Rhode Island
Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study

Life edit

Joëlle Rollo-Koster received her undergraduate degree and master's degree in history from the University of Nice, France. She earned a Ph.D. in History at SUNY Binghamton in 1992 where she was a student of Richard Trexler.[citation needed]

On December 6, 2016, she was knighted by the French government with the medal of Chevalier des Palmes académiques.[2][3] In 2017-2018 she was a EURIAS Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study.[4][5] In 2024, she was elected a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.[6]

Selected publications edit

As author edit

  • Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great Western Schism (1378), 2008, Brill, ISBN 9789047433118
  • The People of Curial Avignon: A Critical Edition of the Liber Divisionis and the Matriculae of Notre Dame la Majour, 2009, Edwin Mellen Press, ISBN 077344680X
  • Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309–1417: Popes, Institutions, and Society, 2015, Rowman and Littlefield, ISBN 9781442215320
  • The Great Western Schism, 1378–1417: Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity, 2022, CUP, ISBN 9781107168947

As editor edit

  • Medieval and Early Modern Ritual: Formalized Behavior in Europe, China and Japan, 2002, Brill, ISBN 9789004117495
  • (Co-edited, with Thomas M. Izbicki) A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378-1417), 2009, Brill, ISBN 9789004162778
  • (Co-edited, with Kathryn Reyerson) For the Salvation of my Soul: Women and Wills in Medieval and Early Modern France, 2012, Centre for French History and Culture of the University of St Andrews, ISBN 9781907548086[7]
  • Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed, Routledge, 2016, ISBN 9781138802131

Recognition edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Joëlle Rollo-Koster". University of Rhode Island. University of Rhode Island. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  2. ^ "Palmes Académiques Ceremony". France in the United States. Consulate General of France in Boston. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  3. ^ "URI history professor receives academic award from French government". today.uri.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  4. ^ "Joëlle Rollo-Koster | European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme | 2018-2019". www.2018-2019.eurias-fp.eu. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  5. ^ "RI OPAC: Authors". opac.regesta-imperii.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  6. ^ "URI history professor elected Fellow of Medieval Academy of America". University of Rhode Island. 2024-01-29. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  7. ^ "For the Salvation of my Soul: Women and Wills in Medieval and Early Modern France". St. Andrews Research Repository. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
  8. ^ "MellenPress". Mellen Press. WebTYs. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  9. ^ "Palmes Académiques Ceremony". France in the United States. Consulate General of France in Boston. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  10. ^ "2018 Excellence Award Recipients". The University of Rhode Island Foundation. Retrieved April 16, 2019.