Rhinoceros Bound: Cluny in the Tenth Century

by Barbara H. Rosenwein

Contents:
1. The lineage of cluniac studies --
2. Looking at the tenth century: The historians' perception of Cluny's benefactors --
3. Looking out: The cluniac perception of the world --
4. Looking in: The cluniac perception of the monastery --
5. Looking at Cluny in context.

Genres: Academic

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Prof. Barbara Rosenwein was the Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography at the University of Oxford for the year 2014-2015.

Barbara H. Rosenwein (Ph.D. (1974), B.A. (1966), University of Chicago) is a professor at Loyola University Chicago. An internationally renowned historian, she has been a guest professor at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France; the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France; the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and most recently at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Since 2009, Rosenwein has been an affiliated research scholar at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University in London. She was a scholar in residence at the American Academy in Rome in 2001-2002 and was elected Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2003.