Current Post                                                           

Reader in Medieval History, Keele University (Appointed September 2000; Senior Lecturer: October 2005; Reader: February 2007)

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1986
• M.Phil in Modern (Medieval) History, St John's College, University of Oxford, 1989
• D.Phil in Modern (Medieval) History, St John's College, University of Oxford, 1992
• Licentiate in Mediaeval Studies (post-doctoral), summa cum laude
• Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, 1999

Publications

Forthcoming

Books

• Power, Discipline and Pastoral Care: Penance and Reform in Eleventh-Century Italy (Manchester: Manchester University Press), under contract; delivery spring 2010.

Articles

• ‘Looking Behind Recension Bb of Anselm of Lucca’s Collectio canonum’, Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, kan. Abt., forthcoming 2009.
• ‘Anselm of Lucca, Wibert of Ravenna and Canon law: Reassessing British Library, Harley MS 3052’, in Liber Amicorum Robert Somerville, U.-R. Blumenthal and A. Winroth (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press), forthcoming.

Published

Books

• Reform and the Papacy in the Eleventh Century: Spirituality and Social Change (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005).
• Papacy and Law in the Gregorian Revolution: The Canonistic Work of Anselm of Lucca (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998).

Edited Books

• Readers, Texts and Compilers in the Earlier Middle Ages: Studies in Medieval Canon Law in Honour of Linda Fowler-Magerl, K.G. Cushing and M. Brett (eds.), with authored article (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), with authored article.
• Bishops, Texts and the Use of Canon Law around the Year 1100, B. C. Brasington and K.G. Cushing (eds), (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), with authored article.
• Ritual, Text and Law: Studies in Medieval Canon Law and Liturgy presented to Roger E. Reynolds, K. G. Cushing and R. Gyug (Eds), (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), with authored article.

Articles

• ‘The Problem of the Minor and “Intermediate” Collections: the Case of the Collectio canonum Barberiniana’, in Readers, Texts and Compilers in the Earlier Middle Ages: Studies in Medieval Canon Law in Honour of Linda Fowler-Magerl, K.G. Cushing and M. Brett (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), 73-85.
•  ‘Pueri, Iuvenes and Viri: Age and Utility in the “Gregorian” Reform’, Catholic Historical Review, 94/3, (2008), 435-49.
•  ‘Polemic versus Episcopal Handbook? Recension Bb of Anselm of Lucca’s Collectio canonum’ in Bishops, Texts and the Use of Canon Law around the Year 1100, B.C. Brasington and K.G. Cushing  (eds) (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), 69-77.
•  ‘Cruel to be Kind: Penance and Excommunication in Gregorian Canonical Collections’ in Proceedings of the Eleventh International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Catania, Italy August 2000, ed. M. Bellomo (Monumenta Iuris Canonici, Subsidia; Vatican City, 2007), 529-38.
• ‘Of Locustae and Dangerous Men: Peter Damian, the Vallombrosans and Eleventh-century Reform’, Church History, 74:4 (2005), 740-57.
• ‘Text and Law’, in: K. G. Cushing and R. Gyug (eds) Ritual, Text and Law: Studies in Medieval Canon Law and Liturgy presented to Roger E. Reynolds (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), 135-40.
• ‘Anselm of Lucca and Burchard of Worms: Re-Thinking the Sources of Anselm 11, De Penitentia’, in: K. G. Cushing and R. Gyug (eds) Ritual, Text and Law: Studies in Medieval Canon Law and Liturgy presented to Roger E. Reynolds (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), 225-39.
• ‘Events that Led to Sainthood: Sanctity and the Reformers in the Eleventh Century’ in: R. Gameson and H. Leyser (Eds) Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 187-96.
• ‘Anselm of Lucca and The Doctrine of Coercion: The Legal Impact of the Schism of 1080, The Catholic Historical Review, 81 (1995), 353-71.

Membership of Professional Associations

• Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consociatio (Society of Medieval Canon Law), President
• Advisory Board, Stephan Kuttner Institute for Medieval Canon Law
• American Catholic Historical Association
• American Society of Church History
• Medieval Academy of America
• Royal Historical Society
• Society of Italian Historical Studies

Research Grants (Selected)

• 2004
  British Academy (Small Research Grant), ‘Excommunication and Penance in Gregorian Canonical Collections’, for research in Italy, January-July 2005.
• 1999
  Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, ‘Gregorian Reform Collections: Sources and Manuscripts’