Bornstein - Department of History

DANIEL E. BORNSTEIN
Department of History
6243 Alamo Avenue
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO 63105
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
(314) 935-7279
fax: 314-935-4399
email: [email protected]
(314) 862-7573
DEGREES RECEIVED:
B.A., Oberlin College, 1972
M.A., University of Chicago, 1977
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1985
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
Professor of History and Religious Studies and Stella K. Darrow Professor of Catholic Studies,
Washington University in St. Louis (2007- )
Department of History, Texas A&M University (Assistant Professor, 1989-1994; Associate
Professor, 1994-1999; Professor, 1999-2007)
Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Program in Religious Studies, Texas A&M University (19962007)
J. E. and Lillian Byrne Tipton Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Religious
Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara (Spring 2006)
Visiting Professor, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest,
Hungary (May 1997)
Visiting Professor, Department of Medieval and Early Modern History, University of Milan,
Milan, Italy (Winter 1997)
Department of History, University of California, San Diego (Lecturer, 1986-1989)
Department of History and Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan (Assistant
Professor and Fellow, 1983-1986)
PUBLICATIONS:
Books and monographs:
Dino Compagni’s Chronicle of Florence, translated with introduction and notes by
Daniel E. Bornstein (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986; 2nd
ed. 1990; 3rd ed. 1993; 4th ed. 1995)
The Bianchi of 1399: Popular Devotion in Late Medieval Italy (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1993)
Bartolomea Riccoboni, Life and Death in a Venetian Convent: The Chronicle and
Necrology of Corpus Domini, 1395-1436, ed. and trans. Daniel Bornstein
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000)
Edited volumes:
Mistiche e devote nell’Italia tardomedievale, ed. Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi
(Naples: Liguori, 1992)
André Vauchez, The Laity in the Middle Ages: Religious Beliefs and Devotional
Practices, ed. and introduced by Daniel E. Bornstein (Notre Dame: University
of Notre Dame Press, 1993; paperback edition 1996)
Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, ed. Daniel Bornstein and
Roberto Rusconi (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)
Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance Italy, ed. David S.
Peterson with Daniel E. Bornstein (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and
Renaissance Studies, 2008)
Medieval Christianity, vol. 4 of A People’s History of Christianity, general ed. Denis
Janz (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009) (German translation forthcoming from
Gütersloher Verlagshaus, as Sozialgeschichte des Christentums)
Articles:
“The Poet as Historian: Researching the Malatesta Cantos,” Paideuma 10 (1981): 283291
“The Shrine of Santa Maria a Cigoli: Female Visionaries and Clerical Promoters,”
Mélanges de l’Ecole Française de Rome, Moyen Age-Temps Modernes 98
(1986): 219-228
“The Wedding Feast of Roberto Malatesta and Isabetta da Montefeltro: Ceremony and
Power,” Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 12 (1988): 101117
“Pittori sconosciuti e pitture perdute nella Cortona tardo-medioevale,” Rivista d’Arte 42
(1990): 227-244
“Giovanni Dominici, the Bianchi, and Venice: Symbolic Action and Interpretive
Grids,” Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 23 (1993): 143-171
“The Uses of the Body: The Church and the Cult of Santa Margherita da Cortona,”
Church History 62 (1993): 163-177
“Violenza al corpo di una santa: fra agiografia e pornografia,” Quaderni medievali 39
(June 1995): 31-46
“Corporazioni spirituali: proprietà delle confraternite e pietà dei laici,” Ricerche di
storia sociale e religiosa 48 (1995): 77-90
“Le donne di Giovanni Dominici: un caso nella recezione e trasmissione dei messaggi
religiosi,” Studi medievali, ser. 3, 36 (1995): 355-361
“Dominican Friar, Lay Saint: The Case of Marcolino of Forlì,” Church History 66
(1997): 252-267
“Priests and Villagers in the Diocese of Cortona,” Ricerche Storiche 27 (1997): 93-106
“Parish Priests in Late Medieval Cortona: The Urban and Rural Clergy,” in Quaderni
di Storia Religiosa 4 (1997): 165-193
“Provincial Painters: Local Artists in Quattrocento Cortona and the Origins of Luca
Signorelli,” Renaissance Studies 14 (2000): 435-452
“Spiritual Culture, Material Culture: Church Inventories in Fifteenth-Century Cortona,”
Medievalia et Humanistica 28 (2001): 101-115
“St. Birgitta in Roma Sancta: A Swedish Princess as Roman Saint?” Birgittiana 17
(2004): 49-58
“History and Culture in a Provincial Centre: A Universal Chronicle from Renaissance
Rimini,” Renaissance Studies 19 (2005): 143-149
“Priests and Their Families in Medieval Italy” [in Chinese], Shi jie li shi [World
History] (2007, no. 3): 51-59
Book chapters:
“Postfazione: Donne e religione nell’Italia tardomedievale,” in Mistiche e devote
nell’Italia tardomedievale, ed. Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi (Naples:
Liguori, 1992), pp. 237-261
“Popular Devotion,” in Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, ed. William W. Kibler and
Grover A. Zinn (New York and London: Garland, 1995), pp. 748-751
“Le Conseil des Dix et le contrôle de la vie religieuse à Venise à la fin du Moyen Age,”
La religion civique à l’époque médiévale et modern (Chrétienté et Islam),
Collection de l’Ecole Française de Rome, 213 (Rome: Ecole Française de
Rome, 1995), pp. 187-200
“Women and Religion in Late Medieval Italy: History and Historiography,” in Women
and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, ed. Daniel Bornstein and
Roberto Rusconi (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), pp. 1-27
“Spiritual Kinship and Domestic Devotions,” in Gender and Society in Renaissance
Italy, ed. Judith C. Brown and Robert C. Davis (London and New York:
Longman, 1998), pp. 173-192
“Marcolino da Forlì, taumaturgo locale e modello universale,” in Vita religiosa e
identità politiche: universalità e particolarismi nell’Europa del Tardo
Medioevo, ed. Sergio Gensini, Collana di Studi e Ricerche del Centro di Studi
sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, 7 (Pisa: Pacini Editore, 1998), pp. 263-286
“Gli itinerari della devozione nel basso medioevo,” in Itinerari medievali e civiltà
europea, ed. Roberto Greci (Bologna: CLUEB, 1999), pp. 321-329
“The Bounds of Community: Commune, Parish, Confraternity, and Charity at the
Dawn of a New Era in Cortona,” in The Politics of Ritual Kinship:
Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy, ed. Nicholas Terpstra
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 67-81
“Lo stato attuale della ricerca sul moto dei Bianchi,” in Sulle orme dei Bianchi (1399)
dalla Liguria all’Italia Centrale, ed. Francesco Santucci (Assisi: Accademia
Properziana del Subasio, 2001), pp. 15-40
“Law, Religion, and Economics: Jewish Moneylenders in Christian Cortona,” in A
Renaissance of Conflicts: Visions and Revisions of Law and Society in Italy and
Spain, ed. John A. Marino and Thomas Kuehn (Toronto: Centre for
Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004), pp. 241-256
“The Legend of Maria of Venice” (translation with introduction and annotation), in
Dominican Penitent Women, ed. Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner (New York: Paulist
Press, 2005), pp. 105-176 and 273-286
“Reading Sister Bartolomea,” in Teaching Other Voices: Women and Religion in Early
Modern Europe, ed. Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil, Jr. (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2007), pp. 44-52
“Introduction: Living Christianity,” in A People’s History of Christianity, vol. 4:
Medieval Christianity, ed. Daniel E. Bornstein (Minneapolis: Fortress Press,
2009), pp. 1-25
“Relics, Ascetics, Living Saints,” in A People’s History of Christianity, vol. 4:
Medieval Christianity, ed. Daniel E. Bornstein (Minneapolis: Fortress Press,
2009), pp. 75-106
“How to Behave in Church/Become a Priest,” in Medieval Christianity in Practice, ed.
Miri Rubin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, in preparation)
Book reviews and short notes (more than 70) in Church History, Renaissance and
Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, Catholic Historical Review, Journal of Modern
History, Speculum, Renaissance Quarterly, The Journal of Religion, Studi medievali,
English Historical Review, Cristianesimo nella storia, Journal of Church and State,
Seventeenth Century News, The Historian, Medievalia et Humanistica, and The
American Historical Review
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:
Henry J. Haskell Fellowship (1977-1978)
William Rainey Harper Fellowship (1977-1978)
Junior Fellow, Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago Divinity
School (1982-1983)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1989-1990)
Robert Lehman Fellowship, Villa I Tatti: The Harvard University Center for Italian
Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy (1989-1990)
American Philosophical Society grants-in-aid (1990, 1996, and 1998)
National Endowment for the Humanities stipend to attend Summer Institute in the Italian
Archival Sciences, Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library (1993)
National Endowment for the Humanities, Special Opportunity for Archival Research (1993)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Center for Renaissance Studies,
Newberry Library (1995)
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation grant (1996)
Lilly Fellow, National Humanities Center (2003-2004)
National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research grant (2004)
TAMU grants:
International Research Travel Grants (1993, 1996, 1998, and 2002)
International Curriculum Development Grants (1993 and 1996)
Honors Curriculum Development Grants (1993 and 1999)
Faculty Mini-Grant (1993-1994)
Program to Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities Grants (1994, 1996, 1999, 2000,
2002, and 2005)
Faculty Development Leaves, Texas A&M University (1994-1995, 2001, and 2007)
Women’s Studies Faculty Fellowship (1996)
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Fallon-Marshall lecturer, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University (1999): “Teaching
the History of Christianity”
Faculty Fellow, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University (2001-2003)
Association of Former Students College-Level Distinguished Teaching Award (2003)
Socio Corrispondente of the Accademia Etrusca di Cortona (elected 2003)
OFFICES IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
member, Nelson Prize Committee, offered by the Renaissance Society of America for the best
article in Renaissance Quarterly (1999)
member, Committee on the J. Franklin Jameson Award in Editorial Achievement, offered by
the American Historical Association (2000)
discipline representative in History to the Council of the Renaissance Society of America
(2000-2002)
editorial advisory board, Renaissance Quarterly (2001-2002)
advisory council, Society for Italian Historical Studies (2003- )
member, Research Committee, American Society of Church History (2003- ); chair, 2009member, Executive Council, American Catholic Historical Association (2006-2009)
member, editorial board, Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo (2003- )
member, editorial board, Medievalia et Humanistica (2006- )