Christopher Riedel

Assistant Professor of History
Medieval England and Europe

Office: Robinson Hall 210
Phone: (517) 629-0398
Email: [email protected]

Education

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

Courses Offered

• 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)

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

• 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)

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