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Christopher Riedel

Assistant Professor of History

Medieval England and Europe

Student drop-in hours for Spring 2025: Thursdays 10:30am – 12:45pm and 2:15 – 3pm, and by appointment: email criedel@albion.edu.

Education
  • Ph.D., Medieval History, Boston College (2015)
  • B.A. with High Distinction, History, University of Virginia (2006)
Courses
  • Ancient and Medieval Worlds
  • Medieval England
  • The Viking Age
  • The Crusades
  • Ancient Rome
  • Ancient Greece
  • Jerusalem: City at the Center of the World (Upper-Division Seminar)
  • Tolkien and the Middle Ages (LA101 First-Year Seminar)
Publications

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 Presentations

  • “Celibacy and Monastic Reform in 10th-Century England,” 28th International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, July 2021 (remote)
  • “A Status Apart: Reformed Monks and the Question of Claustration,” 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2021 (remote)
  • “A Political Witch-Hunt in Tenth-Century England?” 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2019
  • “Crusade and Confederacy: Lost Causes?” Narrative and Nostalgia: The Crusades and the American Civil War, Virginia Tech, March 2019
  • “Remembering Bede in the Tenth Century: An All-Monastic Church?” 25th International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, July 2018
  • “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, June 2016
  • “Æthelwold’s Monastic Reform and the Birth of the Parish Church,” 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2016
  • “Competing Priorities for Monastic Reform in the Hagiography of Tenth-Century Anglo-Saxon Bishops,” American Society for Church History Spring Meeting, Edmonton, April 2016
Awards

Select Awards and Fellowships

  • National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute for higher education faculty: Law and Culture in Medieval England, Western Michigan University (2021)
  • 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)