Christopher Riedel

Visiting Assistant Professor
Medieval England and Europe

Office: Robinson Hall 210
Phone: 517/629-0398
Email:

Education

• Ph.D., Medieval History, Boston College (2015)
• B.A. with High Distinction, History, University of Virginia (2006)

Courses Offered

• Ancient and Medieval World
• The West and Islam: From Napoleon to 9/11
• The West and Islam: From the First Crusade in 1099 to Napoleon's Expedition in 1799
• Medieval England
• Ancient Rome
• Tolkien and Medieval History

Scholarly Activity

Publications:

• Praising God Together: Monastic Reformers and Lay People in Tenth-Century Winchester, The Catholic Historical Review 102, no. 2 (2016), 284-317.
• Debating the Role of the Laity in the Hagiography of the Tenth-Century Anglo-Saxon Benedictine Reform, La Revue Bénédictine 127, no. 2 (2017), 315-46.

Select Awards and Fellowships:

• Peter Guilday Prize for best first article, American Catholic Historical Association (2016)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship (Visiting Assistant Professor), History Department, Boston College (2015-17)
• Donald and Hélène White Prize for the Outstanding Dissertation in the Field of Humanities, Boston College (2016)
• John Leyerle-CARA Prize for Dissertation Research from the Medieval Academy of America (2013)
• Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award, Boston College (2011-12)
• Sewanee Medieval Colloquium R.W. Southern Prize (2010)

Select Presentations

• Pastoral Care and Monastic Reform in Tenth-Century Winchester, Winchester: An Early Medieval Royal City, Winchester University, United Kingdom (July 2017)
• Translating Bede’s ‘Golden Age’ of Monasticism into Old English in the Tenth Century, 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (May 2017)
• Monastic Reform and the Origins of the Parish Church in Late Anglo-Saxon England, 4th Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University (2016)
• Competing Priorities for Monastic Reform in the Hagiography of Tenth-Century Anglo-Saxon Bishops, American Society for Church History Spring Meeting, Edmonton (2016)
• The Differing Priorities of Reforming Bishops: Depictions of the Laity in the Vitae of Æthelwold, Oswald, and Dunstan, 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (2014)
• Ælfric’s Intended Audience and His Two Lives of St. Martin, 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (2012)
• Teaching Doxology with Miracles: The Monastic Reform Movement and Lay Society, 29th International Haskins Society Conference, Boston College (2010)
• Lantfred’s Swithun and the Fundamentals of Reform: Educating Lay Pilgrims in Tenth-Century Winchester, 37th Annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, The University of the South (2010)