Curriculum vitae
Faith Wallis PhD (Toronto), FSA Professor Department of History and Classical Studies/Department of Social Studies of Medicine McGill University
June 2018
(History & Classical Studies) (Social Studies of Medicine) 855, rue Sherbrooke ouest 3655 rue Peel, Montréal, Québec, Canada Montréal, Québec, Canada H2A 2T7 H2A 1X1 (514) 398-4400 ext. 094203 (514) 398-4400 ext. 094203 [email protected] http://www.mcgill.ca/history/faith-wallis
EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy. Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto. 1985. Dissertation: MS Oxford St John's College 17: a Medieval Manuscript in its Contexts. Supervisor: Leonard E. Boyle. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, 1978/79-1981/82 Licentiate in Mediaeval Studies. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto. 1981. Dissertation: Giovanni Balbi of Genoa and the "Catholicon". Supervisor: Leonard E. Boyle. Master of Library Science. McGill University. 1976. Master of Arts. McGill University (Dept. of History). 1974. Thesis: Structure and Philosophy in Mediaeval Encyclopaedias. Supervisor: C.C. Bayley. Bachelor of Arts. McGill University. 1971. First Class Honours in History.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION History of medicine in western Europe in the Middle Ages, especially text transmission and reception, the medical book, medical education, medical concepts. History of science in western Europe in the Middle Ages (especially computus i.e. calendar management; astronomy and cosmology; scientific diagrams) the writings and influence of Bede (ca 675-735).
AREAS OF COMPETENCE History of medicine and science in the pre-modern period (classical antiquity, early modern period) History of medicine in Montreal and at McGill University (especially life and influence of William Osler) 1
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Teaching positions and related academic posts
Professor, Department of History and Classical Studies/Department of Social Studies of Medicine (joint appointment), McGill University. June 1992-present. History of Medicine Librarian (as of November 1990, Osler Librarian), Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University. Concurrently Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) in the Departments of History, and of Social Studies of Medicine. March 1986-June 1992. Assistant Professor (sabbatical replacement), Department of History, McGill University. September 1985-May 1986. Assistant History of Medicine Librarian, Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University. January 1985-March 1986. Archivist (part-time). McGill University Archives. 1983-1984. Archivist-consultant. Office of the Director of Libraries, McGill University. 1982-1985. Research Assistant to Prof. Walter Principe, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto. 1980. Archivist. McGill University Archives. 1976-1978. Editorial assistant. McGill University Thesis Directory. 1975-1976. Teaching Assistant. Department of History, McGill University. 1972-1973.
Affiliations with other academic institutions
Affiliate, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 2017- • Member, Board of Directors, Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Durham, Durham UK, 2010-present. Affiliate, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, 2006-2011.
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
Invited Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. March 2018. •Slater Visiting Fellow, University College/Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Durham University (U.K.), Easter term 2015. •Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of London. Elected May 2013. •H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching, Faculty of Arts, McGill University. 1997.
RESEARCH GRANTS
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2017-2020: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant: "Master Bartholomaeus of Salerno (fl. ca 1150-1170): An Edition of his Major Medical Works." $65,923 ($21,334 + 24,942 + 19,637). 2016-2017. McGill University. Office of Vice-Principal (Research and International Relations) SSHRC Internal Research Grant. "Reason and Reckoning: Albums of Science in England: ca. 1000-ca. 1200." $6,000. 2008-2012. Fonds québecois de la recherche sur la société et la culture. Grant in support of an équipe universitaire en fonctionnment (with Robert Wisnovsky (Principal Investigator), Carlos Fraenkel, Jamie Fumo, Jamil Ragep and Sebastian Sobecki): "Transmission, translation and transformation in medieval cultures." 2008-2012. $338,725. 2006-2007 SSHRC Conference grant for Workshop on "Vehicles of Transmission, Translation and Transformation" (with Robert Wisnovsky, Jamie Fumo and Carlos Fraenkel) $23,000. 2006-2008. Fonds québecois de la recherche sur la société et la culture. Grant in support of an équipe en emergence (with Robert Wisnovsky, Carlos Fraenkel and Jamie Fumo): "Transmission, translation and transformation in medieval cultures." ($42,000) •2004. Associated Medical Services. Hannah Development Grant. $7,185 for conference to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Osler Library entitled "Medical Books and Medical Libraries in Historical Perspective." 2004. McGill University, Digital Collections Programme. Tomlinson Digital Innovation Award ($15,000) to produce a hypertext commentary on MS Oxford, St John's College 17 (in partnership with Oxford University). 2006. McGill University. Office of Vice-Principal (Research and International Relations) SSHRC Internal Research Grant. ($4,500). Topping-up grant to complete The calendar and the cloister: a digitized facsimile edition of MS Oxford St John's 17, with hypertext commentary. 1999-2001. McGill University. Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research. Internal Research Grant. Research grant ($756) for a project entitled “Bede on the Apocalypse: A Translation with Introduction, Notes and Commentary.” 1998. McGill University. Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research. Internal Research Grant. Research grant ($1500) for a project entitled "Doctors and Patients in 15th Century Paris." 1994-2001. Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine. Grant in aid of research ($9,800+$4,285+2,850+$8200)) for a project entitled "The Articella and its commentaries in the 12th century." 1990-1992. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Research Grant ($41,725, of which $25,000 was release-time stipend) for a project entitled "A Historical Study of Medieval Time-Reckoning (Computus): its Content, Development and Cultural Context." 1988-1990. Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine. Grant in aid of research ($14,941) to prepare a census and study of medieval computus (i.e. time-reckoning) manuscripts containing medical materials.
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McGill University. Office of Vice-Principal (Research and International Relations). Paper presentation grant (awarded several times).
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
2009-present International Collaborator: "The Ordered Universe" research group, University of Durham, UK (PI: Dr Giles Gasper). Funding: UK AHRC. https://ordered- universe.com/ local organizer of the group's sumposium "Guiding Stars, Motion and Light": Robert Grosseteste's De motu supercelestium, De motu corporali et de luce and De sex differentiis, McGill University, 2-5 May 2018. 2015-: Collaborator, Science Education in Islam research group, McGill University (PIs Jamil Ragep, Anila Asghar). Funding: SSHRC.
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs (published or in press)
Isidore of Seville, On the Nature of Things. (with Calvin Kendall) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016. Bede: Commentary on Revelation. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013. reviews: Paul Hilliard, The Medieval Review 15.05.15 http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/18852/24965; George House, Early Medieval Europe 22 (2014):363-366 [SJR H Index 18]; Jerome Kodell, American Benedictine Review 65,2 (2014):229-230. Medieval Medicine: A Reader. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. reviews: Elma Brenner, Medical History 57,2 (2013):306-308 [SJR H Index 21]; Fernando Salmón, Social History of Medicine 24 (2011):840-842 [SJR H Index 24]; Maud Kozodoy, The Medieval Review 11.07.04 [http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/17196/23314 Bede: The Nature of Things and On Times (with Calvin Kendall). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010. reviews: Debby Banham, British Journal for the History of Science 45 (2012):125- 6 [SJR H Index 23]; Scott DeGregorio, Isis 103,2 (2012):396-7 [SJR H Index 31]; Siân Echard, Speculum 87,4 (2012) 1219-1220 [SJR H Index 19]; Conor O'Brien, English Historical Review 127/ 529 (2012):1473-4 [SJR H Index 11]; Immo Wartjes, The Medieval Review 12.08.01 http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/17613/23731 ; Wilfrid Theisen, American Benedictine Review 62,3 (2011):351-2; Franklin T. Harkins, Review of Metaphysics 66,1 (2012): 132-4 [SJR H Index 13]. Bede: The Reckoning of Time. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999. 2nd ed. 2004.
Monographs (in preparation)
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1. Alexander Neckam (1157-1217): The Natures of Things. Ed. and trans. with introduction and commentary by Faith Wallis. British Writers of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Oxford: Bodleian Library and Toronto: PIMS, under contract. 2. Bartholomaeus of Salerno: Commentaries on the Articella. Ed. and trans. with introduction and commentary by Faith Wallis. Edizione nazionale "La scuola medica Salernitana", Florence: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzi, under contract. 3. Reason and Reckoning: Albums of Science in England, c. 1000-c.1200. Proposal under consideration by Brepols.
Edited books
Agents of Transmission, Translation and Transformation in Medieval Cultures. Ed. Faith Wallis and Robert Wisnovsky. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016 The Herbal of al-Ghāfiqī. A facsimile edition of MS 7508 in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, with Scholarly Contributions. Ed. F. Jamil Ragep and Faith Wallis. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. Bede and the Future. Ed. Peter Darby and Faith Wallis. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. reviews: George Hardin Brown, Speculum 90,3 (2015): 794-6 [SJR H Index 19]. Vehicles of Transmission, Translation and Transformation in Medieval Culture. Ed. Carlos Fraenkel, Jamie Fumo, Faith Wallis and Robert Wisnovsky. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine: an Encyclopedia. Ed. Steven Livesey, Thomas Glick and Faith Wallis. London: Routledge, 2005. reviews: Shana Worthen, Annals of Science 64,2 (2007) [SJR H Index 14], 284-286; Martin Guha, Reference Reviews 20,6 (2006):47-48. 75 Books from the Osler Library. Ed. Pamela Miller and Faith Wallis. Montreal: Osler Library, 2004. reviews: Elizabeth Fee, JAMA 294, 21 (2005):2769 [SJR H Index 582].
Essays in collections/chapter in books (published or in press)
"Pre-Modern Surgery: Wounds, Words and the Paradox of 'Tradition'." In Palgrave Macmillan Handbook of the History of Surgery, ed. Thomas Schlich. 49-70 London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. "Between Reading and Doing: the Case of Medieval Manuscript Books of Practical Medicine." In The Edinburgh History of Reading: A World Survey from Antiquity to the Present, ed. Mary Hammond and Jonathan Rose. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming. "Science". In Brill Companion to Isidore of Seville, ed. Jamie Wood and Andrew Fear. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming. "Sortes sanctorum and Alea celi: Dicing and Divination in Some Insular Computus Manuscripts." Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Science of Computus, National University of Ireland, Galway, 14 July 2012. Ed. Immo Wartjes. forthcoming.
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"Character and Complexion in Twelfth-Century Medicine," in Miroirs de la mélancholie, ed. Hélène Cazes and Anne-France Morand. Collections de la République des Lettres. 59-86. Paris: Hermann, 2015. "Why did Bede Write a Commentary on Revelation?" in Bede and the Future, ed. Peter Darby and Faith Wallis. 23-45. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. "Medicine and the Senses," in A Cultural History of the Senses. Vol. 2: the Middle Ages, ed. Richard Newhauser. 133-152. New York: Berg, 2014. "Calendars and Time (Christian)." Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396584/obo- 9780195396584-0130.xml?rskey=1zMTVN&result=24&q= "The Ghost in the Articella: a Twelfth-Century Commentary on the Constantinian Liber Graduum." In Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West: Essays in Honor of John M. Riddle, ed. Anne Van Arsdall and Timothy Graham. 207-269. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012. "Counting all the Bones: Measure, Number and Weight in Early Medieval Texts About the Body." In Was zählt: Ordnungsangebote, Gebrauchsformen, Erfahrungsmodalitäten des "numerus" im Mittelalter, ed. Moritz Wedell. 185-207. Vienna: Böhlau, 2012. "Why was the Aphorisms of Hippocrates Re-Translated in the Eleventh Century?" In Vehicles of Transmission, Translation and Transformation, ed. Carlos Fraenkel, Jamie Fumo, Faith Wallis and Robert Wisnovsky. 179-199. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. "Bede's 'Science'." In The Cambridge Companion to Bede, ed. Scott DeGregorio. 113- 126. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. "Michael of Rhodes and Time-Reckoning: Calendar, Almanac, Prognostication," in The Book of Michael of Rhodes, ed. Pamela O. Long, David McGee and Alan M. Stahl. Vol. 3, pp. 281-319. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. "Giulio Guastavini's Commentary on pseudo-Aristotle's Account of Male Same-Sex Coitus, Problemata 4.26." In The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe, ed. Kenneth Borris and George Rousseau. 55-71. London: Routledge, 2008. "Twelfth-century Commentaries on the Tegni: Bartholomaeus of Salerno and Others." In Les parcours de l'Ars medica (Tegni) de Galien: lectures et interpétations depuis la fin de l'Antiquité jusqu'aux Universités médiévales, ed. Nicoletta Palmieri. 127-168. Saint- Étienne: Centre Jean-Palerne, 2008. "Gregory of Tours' Nosebleeds," in Une traversée des savoirs. Mélanges offerts à Jackie Pigeaud, ed. Philippe Heuzé and Yves Hersant. Pp. 417-436. Quebec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2008. "Caedmon's Created World and the Monastic Encyclopedia." In Caedmon's Hymn and Material Culture in the Anglo-Saxon World, ed. Allen Frantzen and John Hines. 80-111. Morgantown WV: West Virginia University Press, 2007. "The Articella Commentaries of Master Bartholomaeus," in La Scuola medica salernitana: gli autori e i testi, ed. Agostino Paravicini Bagliani. 125-164. Florence: SISMEL, 2007. "Si Naturam Quaeras: Reframing Bede's 'Science'," in Innovation and Tradition in the Writings of the Venerable Bede, ed. Scott DeGregorio, Medieval European Series 7. 61- 94. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia UP, 2006.
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"'Number Mystique' in Early Medieval Computus Texts," in Mathematics and the Divine: a Historical Study, ed. Tuen Koetsier and L. Bergmans, 181-199. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005. "The Book of the Head in Osler Library MS 7586," in A Distinct Voice: Medieval Essays in Honor of Leonard E. Boyle, o.p., ed. William Stoneman and Jacqueline Brown, 121-154. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. "Chronology and Systems of Dating", and "Science", in Medieval Latin Studies: an Introduction and Bibliographic Guide, ed. George Rigg and Frank A.C. Mantello. 342-347, 383-387. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, Washington D.C., 1996. "W.W. Francis: Scholar and Showman of the Osler Library, " in Essays in Canadian Library History, ed. Peter F. McNally, 319-344. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association, 1996. "The Experience of the Book: Manuscripts, Texts, and the Role of Epistemology in Early Medieval Medicine," in Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions, ed. Don G. Bates, 101-126. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. "Medicine in Medieval Computus Manuscripts," in Manuscript Sources of Medieval Medicine, ed. Margaret Schleissner, 105-143. New York: Garland, 1995. "Images of Order in the Medieval Computus," in ACTA XIV: Ideas of Order in the Middle Ages, edited by Warren Ginsberg, 45-67. Binghamton: State University of New York Press, 1990. "The Church, the World, and the Time," in Normes et pouvoirs à la fin du moyen âge, edited by Marie-Claude Deprez-Masson, 15-29. Inedita et rara 7. Montreal: Ceres, 1990.
Essays in collections/chapters in books (in preparation)
"Disease, 1000-1300." In Handbook of Medieval Environmental History vol. 2, ed. Timothy Newfield and Philip Slavin (Leiden: Brill; text submitted to editors) "Rectores at Risk: the Heresy on Intellectuals in Bede's Commentary on Proverbs." In Cities, Saints and Communities in Early Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of Alan T. Thacker, ed. by Scott DeGregorio and Paul Kershaw (Turnhout: Brepols; submitted). "Diagrams as Glosses in a Family of English Twelfth-Century Manuscripts of Bede's De temporum ratione." In The Visualization of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Adam Cohen, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Marcia Kupfer and Andrea Worm (Israel Institute of Advanced Studies). To be published by Brepols (Turnhout, Belgium: submitted).
Electronic publications
The Calendar and the Cloister: MS Oxford St John's College 17. http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/ms-17 A digital facsimile of an important 12th century English manuscript containing materials on time-reckoning, medicine, mathematics, cosmography and related topics, with a folio-by-folio hypertext commentary, background essays, glossary, bibliography, inventory of related manuscripts, and transcriptions of selected texts.
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Refereed articles in journals (published and in press)
"The Book of the Head and the Book of Skin: Compilation and "Decompilation" in some Medieval Manuscripts of Practical Medicine in the Osler Library (McGill University)." Forthcoming in Florilegium "Albums of Science in Twelfth-Century England." Peritia 28 (2017): 195-224 [SJR H Index 5] "Salsamenta pictavensium: Gastronomy and Medicine in Twelfth-Century England" (with Giles Gasper). English Historical Review 131; 553 (2016): 1353-1358 [SJR H Index 11] "What a Diagram Shows: a Case Study of Computus." Studies in Iconography 36 (2015): 1-40 [SJR H Index 4] "Computus, Computus, Crusade, and Construction: Writing England's Monastic Past and Future in MS Oxford St John's College 17." New Medieval Literatures 13 (2011):220- 238 Guest editor, Medicine and the Soul of Science: Essays by and in Memory of Don G. Bates = Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 26,1 (2009). "Guest Editor's Preface", pp. 7-10 [SJR H Index 11] "Anselm and the Articella," Traditio 59 (2004): 129-174. (with Giles Gasper) [SJR H Index 8] "Inventing Diagnosis: Theophilus' De urinis in the Classroom," Dynamis 20 (2000): 31-73 [SJR H Index 8] "Signs and Senses: Diagnosis and Prognosis in Early Medieval Pulse and Urine Texts." Social History of Medicine 13 (2000): 265-278 [SJR H Index 24] "Theory and Practice in the Trial of Jean Domremi," (with Geneviève Dumas) Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 54 (1999):55-87 [SJR H Index 22] "Lifetime Learning as Ethical Imperative: Listening Afresh to Sir William Osler." Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 6th ser., 3 (1992):87-97 [SJR H Index 1]
Editorials and non-refereed articles
"Piety and Prejudice." Canadian Medical Association Journal, 156(11) (June 1, 1997):1549-1551. "The Man in the Library," in This is our Work: The Legacy of Sir William Osler, by Ted Grant, 44-50. Philadelphia: American College of Physicians, 1994.
Reference works, encyclopedia articles, exhibition catalogues
"Scientific Writing," in Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature, ed. Siân Echard and Robert Rouse. Vol. 3, pp. 1665-1670. Oxford: Blackwell, 2017 "Isidore of Seville (literary works)". Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, ed. Mark Humphreys and Oliver Nicholson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018 "Calendars and reckoning of time," in Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert Bjork. pp. 323-326. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010
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"Oxford, St John's College MS 17." In Pen and Parchment: The Art of Drawing in the Middle Ages [exhibition catalogue]. Pp. 105-107. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 2009. "Bartholomaeus of Salerno", "Bede", "Computus", "Gilles de Corbeil", "Maurus of Salerno", "Medicine, theoretical", "Medicine, practical", "Nicholas of Salerno", "Urso of Calabria" in Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine: an Encyclopedia. Ed. Steven Livesey, Thomas Glick and Faith Wallis. London: Routledge, 2005. "Cingius" and "Cologne Prologue," in Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture vol. "C" ed. Tom Hall. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, forthcoming. "T. Wesley Mills." Dictionary of Canadian Biography v.14. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. 760-762.
Book reviews
Essay reviews
Computus and its Cultural Context in the Latin West, AD 300-1200. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, Galway, 14-16 July, 2006. Ed. Immo Warntjes and Dáibhí Ó Cróinín. Studia traditionis theologiae 5. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. In Journal of the History of Astronomy 44 (2013): 101-104. "The Ambiguities of Medieval Memoria." Canadian Journal of History 30 (1995):77-83.
Reviews
Sara M. Butler, Forensic Medicine and Death Investigation in Medieval England. Routledge Research in Medieval Studies. New York and London: Routledge, 2015. American Historical Review 121,4 (2016): 1353-1354. Anne Kirkham and Cordelia Warr, eds. Wounds in the Middle Ages. The History of Medicine in Context. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. forthcoming in Social History of Medicine. Jacalyn Duffin. Medical Saints: Cosmas and Damian in a Post-Modern World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, in Isis 106,2 (2015): 505-6. Henry of Huntingdon, Anglicanus ortus. A Verse Herbal of the Twelfth Century. Ed. and Trans. Winston Black. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2012. In Isis 105,3 (2014):635-6. Roy Liuzza. Anglo-Saxon Prognostics. An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2011. In Preternature 2 (2013):279-284. Politiques des émotions au Moyen Âge. Ed. Damien Boquet and Piroska Nagy. Micrologus' Library 34. Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2010. In Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 29 (2012): 402-4 Between Text and Patient: The Medical Enterprise in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Ed. Florence Eliza Glaze and Brian K. Nance. Micrologus' Library 39. Florence: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2011. In Journal of Medieval Latin 22 (2012):291-295.
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Immo Warntjes. The Munich Computus: Text and Tradition. Irish Computistics between Isidore of Seville and the Venerable Bede and its Reception in Carolingian Times. Sudhoffs Archiv Beihefte 59. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2010. In The Mediaeval Journal 1, 2 (2011): 106-109. Une conquête des savoirs. Les traductions dans l'Europe latine (fin du XIe siècle – milieu du XIIIe siècle. Actes du Colloque organisé à la Fondation Singer-Polignac le jeudi 27 novembre 2008. Ed. Max Lejbowicz. Rencontres Médiévales Européennes 9. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. Aestimatio 8 (2011): 110-115. Arno Borst (ed.) Schriften zur Komputistik im Frankreich von 721 bis 818. (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Quellen zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters 21.) Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2006. 3v, in Speculum 83 (2008): 668-670. Hugh Trevor-Roper. Europe's Physician. The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006, in Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 25 (2008): 551-553. Victoria Sweet, Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky. Hildegard of Bingen and Premodern Medicine. New York and London: Routledge, 2006, in Isis 98 (2007):622-623 Marcia Kupfer, The Art of Healing: Painting for the Sick and the Sinner in a Medieval Town. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003, in Bulletin of the History of Medicine 80 (2006):580-581. Piers D. Mitchell, Medicine in the Crusades: Warfare, Wounds and the Medieval Surgeon. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), in Social History of Medicine 18 (2005): 515-516. Georges Declercq, Annus Domini: the Origins of the Christian Era. Turnhout: Brepols, 2000, in English Historical Review 119, no. 484 (2004): 1377-1378. Anne Van Arsdall, Medieval Herbal Remedies: the "Old English Herbarium" amd Anglo- Saxon Medicine (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), in Speculum 79 (2004):1168- 1170. Peter Biller and Joseph Ziegler, eds. Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages. York Studies in Medieval Theology III (York: York Medieval Press, 2001), in Social History of Medicine 16 (2003): 135-137. Minta Collins, Medieval Herbals: the Illustrative Tradition (London: British Library, 2000) in Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 19,2 (2002):257-258. Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999) in Canadian Journal of History 36 (2001):120-122. Juhanni Norri, Names of Body Parts in English, 1400-1550. Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Toimituksia/Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Sarja-ser. Humaniora 291. ([Helsinki]: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1998) in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 99 (2000):442-444. Evelyn Edson, Mapping Space and Time. How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their World. (London: British Library, 1997), in Imago Mundi 51 (1999):173-174. Stephen McCluskey, Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), in Journal for the History of Astronomy 30 (1999):317- 319.
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Faye Getz, Medicine in the English Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998) in American Historical Review (1999):1730-1731. James P. Carley and Colin G.C. Tite, eds. Books and Collectors 1200-1700. Essays presented to Andrew Watson. The British Library Studies in the History of the Book. (London: The British Library, 1997) in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 37/2 (1999):73-75. Godefroid de Callataÿ, Annus platonicus: A Study of World Cycles in Greek, Latin and Arabic Sources. Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 47. (Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters Press/Université catholique de Louvain, 1996) in Isis 90 (1999):354-355. Judith M. Bennett, Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996) in Labour/Le travail 42 (1998):243-246. L.M. Eldredge, ed. Benvenutus Grassus: The Wonderful Art of the Eye. A Critical Edition of the Middle English Translation of his 'De probatissima arte oculorum'. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1996) in Medical History 42 (1998):415-416. Annmarie Adams, Architecture in the Family Way (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996) in McGill News Winter 1996. Pp. 34-35. Michael R. McVaugh, Medicine Before the Plague; Practitioners and their Patients in the Crown of Aragon 1285-1345 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) in Histoire sociale/Social History 28 (1995):253-255. J.N. Hillgarth, Readers and Books in Majorca, 1229-1550 (Paris: C.N.R.S., 1991) in Speculum 69 (1994):495-498. John J. Miner, The Grammar Schools of Medieval England: A.F. Leach in Historiographical Perspective. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill Queen's University Press, 1990) in Speculum 67 (1992):456-7. Archibald R. Lewis, Nomads and Crusaders, A.D. 1000-1368. (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1988), in The International History Review, 12 (1990):129-133. Mary Dove, The Perfect Age of Man's Life. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), in Speculum, 64 (1989): 936-939 Larry J. Wygant, ed. The Truman G. Blocker, Jr. History of Medicine Collections: Books and Manuscripts. (Austin: University of Texas Press for Galveston: The University of Texas Medical Branch, 1986) in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, 25 (1986):187- 189.
Scholarly translations Kenneth Borris, ed. Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. Translations from Latin of, and notes on, the following medieval and Renaissance texts: Edward Coke (pp. 95-96); Avicenna (128-130); Rodrigo de Castro (141- 143); Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (321-325); Niccolò Leonico Tomeo (208-209); Pietro d'Abano (132-140) ; Giambattista della Porta (192-195); Bartolommeo della Rocca (185-191); Johannes Thuilius (47-50); Theodor Zwinger (210-223). Eros and Anteros: The Medical Traditions of Love in the Renaissance. Ed. Donald A. Beecher and Massimo Ciavolella. University of Toronto Italian Studies, 9. Ottawa: Dovehouse, 1992 Articles by Jean Céard and Jackie Pigeaud.
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EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS •Editorial Committee, Journal of British History 2009- Editorial board member of MEDICA: The Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Medicine, 2002-present. •Editorial Board member, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2012-2014 Editorial board member of Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 1988-1991. Book Review Editor, 1992-1999. Editor. Osler Library Newsletter, 1990-2013. Co-editor of Memini (newsletter, now journal of the Société d'Études médiévales du Québec), 1989-1991. Editorial board member of Memini 2010-
INVITED LECTURES AND SEMINARS
Named lectureships "Cosmetics in Medieval Medicine and Surgery." Lansdowne Lecture University of Victoria (BC), 6 February 2017. "Bede and Wisdom." Jarrow Lecture 2016. St Paul's Church, Jarrow (UK). 27 May 2016. "Durham's 'web of science' at the dawn of the 12th century: Durham Cathedral Library MS Hunter 100 and its Context." Slater Fellowship Lecture, University College, Durham University (UK), 1 May 2015. "Medicine and the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century." 40th Annual Gilson Lecture, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (University of Toronto) 22 March 2013. "Visualizing Time and Nature in Anglo-Saxon England." Brixworth Lecture 2012. University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. 27 October 2012.
Invited lectures/seminars "Medieval Computus: Three Arguments for its Significance to Historians of Science." Invited lecture, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin. 25 April 2018 "Nature in Sacrobosco's Computus." Invited seminar, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin. 25 April 2018 "Medicine's Academic Turn in the 12th Century: the Case of Master Bartholomaeus of Salerno." History and Philosophy of Science Lunchtime Talks Series, McGill University, 21 September 2017. "The Medical World of Master Bartholomaeus: Theories, Therapies and the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century." Keynote address, 30th Annual Medieval Workshop. University of Victoria (BC), 4 February 2017. "'Reasoning About Drugs: the Herbal of al-Ghāgiqī in the Osler Library of McGill University." Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Ottawa, 7 April 2017. "Monastic Albums of Science in Anglo-Norman England." Keynote address. Travelling Wisdom: Science in the Medieval Religious Orders. Syddanske Universitet (Odense, Denmark) 2 June 2016.
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"How the Twelfth Century Invented Academic Medicine." 2nd Annual Homecoming Lecture, Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University. 29 October 2016. "The Early Days of McGill's Faculty of Medicine." 25th Annual McGill Urology research Day. MUHC, 16 September 2015. "The Heresies of Scholars in Bede's Commentary on Proverbs", University of Nottingham (UK), 6 May 2015. "Bede's Commentary on Revelation: Timelines without Deadlines." Cathedral Study Day, Durham Cathedral (UK), 23 May 2015. "Warts and All: Surgery and the Problem of "Too Much Body" (12th-14th c.)" Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto 6 March 2015. •"Alexander Neckam's On the Natures of Things: a 12th century anti-encyclopedia?" McGill Medievalists Works-in-Progress Series. 22 October 2014. •"Warts and All: Surgical Mutilation of the Body in the Middle Ages." Keynote address. MEMSA Conference, Durham University (UK), 8 July 2013. •"What Does a Medieval Diagram Show? A Case Study of Computus Tables and Schemata." Keynote address: "Maps and Diagrams in Medieval Art," Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, 15 March 2013. •"Purging and Prognostication: Interfaces of Time and Medicine in the Middle Ages." Medical Humanities Program/School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester, Leucester, UK. 29 October 2012. •"Time and the Body in Durham, Dean and Chapter Library MS Hunter 100." Durham University, Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 23 October 2012. •"Waves and Walls: How Bede Imagined Calendars and Time." Durham University, Institute for Advanced Study, 24 October 2012. •"Playing Games with Time: Dicing and Divination in some 12th Century Computus Manuscripts." Durham University, Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 25 October 2012. •"Imagining Bede's Ordered Universe in Anglo-Norman England." Inaugural Public Lecture, Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University, 22 June 2011. •"The world of Master Bartholomaeus: Medicine, renaissance and reform in the twelfth century." Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, 14 October 2010 •"Sortes sanctorum and Alea celi: dicing and divination in the medieval cloister." Medieval Institute Graduate Seminar, University of Notre Dame, 15 October 2010 •"God's House: Religious Dimensions of Sickness and Care in the Medieval Hospital." McGill Seminars on Healing (McGill Programs in Whole Person Care) 25 January 2008. •"Alfonso el Sabio: Savoir, pouvoir, et pensée au XIIIe siècle." Montreal, Institut canadien d'études méditerranéennes, 7 November 2006 •"Who put the Art in the Articella?: The Emergence of Academic Medicine in the 12th Century." McGill Medievalists Works-in-Progress series, 26 January 2006. •"L'Épopée de deux traducteurs: la circulation du savoir en Méditerranée du XIe au XIIIe siècle." Montreal, Institut canadien d'études méditerranéennes, 18 October 2005.
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•"The Medical World of Master Bartholomaeus." McGill University, Dept. of History Brown Bag Seminar Series, 21 September 2005. •"The Inner World of MS 17." New Perspectives on a Medieval Manuscript: A Conference on Oxford Saint John's MS 17. St John's College, Oxford, 2 October 2004. •"Medical History from Both Sides: Teaching History Students, Teaching Medical Students." Medicine and History: a Marriage of Relevance, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, 22 November 2003. •Paradigm Lost: What "Western Traditional Medicine" Can Teach us about Modern "Alternative Medicine." Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, 29 January 2001; Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, 1 February 2001. •"The Birth of Academic Medicine: Science, Theory and Practice in 12th Century Commentaries on the Articella". Dept. of History, University of Calgary, 30 January 2001; Dept. of History, University of Alberta, 31 January 2001. •"Signs and Senses: Diagnosis by Pulse and Urine in 1000 AD". University of Oxford, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, "The Year 1000: Medicine and Disease at the Turn of the Last Millennium" Seminar Series. 25 October 1999. •"Medieval Manuscripts in the Osler Library." Symposium on "Sir William Osler: the Man and his Books". Redpath Museum, McGill University. 24 September 1999. •"'Who is like unto God?' The Many Faces of the Archangel Michael." Gavin Elbourne Memorial Lecture, Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal. 29 September, 1998. •"Medicine and Astrology in the Middle Ages"/"L'astrologie et la médecine au moyen âge". Musée de la Civilisation, Quebec City, 11-12 August, 1993. •"Sir William Osler: The Man Inside the Library." Waring Lecture, Waring Library, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston SC. 29 April, 1992. •"Lifetime Learning as Ethical Imperative: Listening Afresh to Sir William Osler." Annual meeting of the Sciences Section of the Royal Society of Canada, Ottawa, 23 May, 1992. •"Finger Reckoning and the Computus Texts". Seminar series "Numbers and Instruments", Warburg Institute, University of London, 7 February, 1991. •"Prolegomènes à l'histoire du comput médiéval." Séminaire d'histoire des sciences, Université de Nantes (France), June 1991. •"The Medieval Computus: What is it? Why Study it?" Queen's University Medieval- Renaissance Colloquium, 15 February, 1989. •"The Medical School of Montpellier in the Middle Ages". Seminar series "Medical Schools in History", Department of the History of Medicine, University of Ottawa, 19 February, 1988.
CONFERENCE PAPERS "Victim of his Own Success? Why the Articella Commentaries and the Practica of Bartholomaeus of Salerno (d. ca. 1170) are so Difficult to Edit." Editing Medieval Medical Texts, Latin and Middle English. The Fifty-Second Conference on Editorial Problems, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto. 2-3 November 2017. "Computus as the Armature of a Science Album." Correction and Regulation: Perspectives on English Compotus from Hunter 100 to Robert Grosseteste. All Souls College, University of Oxford, 19-20 April 2017.
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"Manuscripts of Practical Medicine and the Mirage of 'Use'." Manuscript Ecologies: Art and Science in the Medieval Book." California Institute of Technology, 8 April 2016. “The Book of the Head and the Book of Skin: Compilation and ‘Decompilation’ in some Medieval Manuscripts of Practical Medicine in the Osler Library (McGill University)” Unravelling the Code(x): Medieval Manuscripts in Canada. University of Victoria, 18 March 2016. •"Bede's Commentary on Proverbs." 20th International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 2 July 2013. •"Sortes sanctorum and alea celi: dicing and divination in some Insular computus manuscripts." Fourth International Conference on the Science of Computus, National University of Ireland, Galway, 14 July 2012. •"The Unscheduled Future: Bede's Commentary on the Apocalypse Between Prophecy and Allegory." International Medieval Congress, Leeds (UK), 11-14 July 2011. •"Dating Bede's Expositio Apocalypseos and Why it Matters." 46th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, 12-15 May 2011. [I organized this session in collaboration with Dr Peter Darby, University of Leicester, and Dr Joshua Westgard, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. •"The Medieval Transmission and Reception of Hippocrates' Aphorisms." History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, 5 November 2010. •"'Fleeting Time' and 'The Everlasting Day': Reassessing Bede's On Times." 3rd International Conference on the Science of Computus, National University of Ireland, Galway. 16-18 July 2010. *Roundtable discussant, "'The Ordered Universe': Interdisciplinary Readings of Medieval Science in England, 1100-1400." Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Durham, Durham UK. 9 July 2010. •Roundtable discussant in session "A Preview of The Cambridge Companion to Bede II: Shaping the Learned World (A Roundtable)." 44th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo Michigan, 8 May 2009. •"Byrhtferth's Diagram Decoded." 43th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo Michigan, 8 May 2008. •"Character and Complexion in 12th Century Medicine." Mirrors of Melancholy. University of Victoria, 5-7 October 2007. •"Computus, Computus, Crusade, and Construction: Writing England's monastic past and future in MS Oxford St John's College 17. Writing England: Books 1100-1200: University of Leicester (UK) 6-8 July 2007 •"Why was the Aphorisms of Hippocrates Re-translated into Latin in the 11th Century?" Workshop of "Vehicles of Transmission", sponsored by the research group on Transmission, Translation and Transformation in Medieval Cultures, McGill University, 26-28 April 2007. •"Who put the Art in the Articella? Re-framing Medicine's 'Theoretical Turn' in the 12th Century." Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Toronto, 12-14 April 2007.
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•"Counting all the Bones: Measure, Number and Weight in Early Medieval Texts about the Body." Conference: "What Counts: The Presence and Medial Function of Numbers in the Middle Ages." Berlin, Helmhottz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Humboldt-Universität 16-18 November 2006. •"The Hippocratic Oath and its Medieval Aftermath." World Religions After September 11: A Global Congress. Montreal, 13 September 2006. •"12th Century Commentaries on the Tegni: Bartholomaeus of Salerno and Others." Les parcours de l'Ars Medica (Tegni) de Galien: lectures et interpretations depuis la fin de l'antiquité jusqáux Universités médiévales. Centre Jean Palerne -- Université de Saint- Étienne. 26 June 2006 •"Computus and the Commentaries [of the Venerable Bede]." 41th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo Michigan, 6 May 2006. •"Early Medieval Perceptions of Nature and Creation." 40th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo Michigan, 6 May 2005. •"The Articella Commentaries of Magister Bartholomaeus." La Scuola medica salernitana: gli autori e i testi. Convegno internazionale, Università di Salerno (Italy). 3-5 November 2004. •"Calendar and Column: Bede on Computus, Architecture and Tropes of Order." 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 7 May, 2004. •"Cloning or Transplantation? Options for Editing 12th Century Commentaries on the Ars medicinae (Articella)." Editing from Antiquity to the Enlightenment. Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 24-26 October 2003. •"Heart and Soul in the 12th Century: Alfred of Sareschel's De motu cordis. Medicine and the Soul of Science: a Symposium in Memory of Don G. Bates. McGill University, Montreal, 16-17 May 2003. •"Empowering the Physician in 12th century Commentaries on the Aphorisms." American Association for the History of Medicine, Boston, 3 May 2003. •"Alexander sapiens medicus": The Latin Adaptation of Alexander of Tralles' Therapeutica in Carolingian Manuscripts." 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 3 May, 2002. •"A New Approach to Bede's 'Science'." 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 3, 2001. •"Gerlandus Compotista and the Problem of the Annus domini". International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds (England), 10-13 July 2000. •"'With nature as our guide': Nature as reason, rule and reckoning in Bede's scientific writings." 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 7-9, 2000. •"Clinical Encounters in 15th Century Paris." 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 7-9, 1998. •"Inventing Diagnosis: Theophilus' De urinis in the Classroom." Medical Teaching and Classroom Practice in the Medieval Universities. King's College, Cambridge, 7-9 January 1998. •"An English Family of Graphic Glosses on Bede's Computistical Works." 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 11 May, 1996.
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•"Colours, Crosses, Acrostics: Abbo of Fleury as a designer of Computus tables." Medieval Academy of America, Boston, 30 March, 1995. •"Narratives of Digestion in Medieval Medical Texts." 30th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 8 May, 1995. •"Where do Bodies Come From? Embryology as Narrative in Medieval Medical Texts." 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 7 May, 1994. •"Medical Materials in Medieval Computus Manuscripts." Canadian Society for the History of Medicine at the annual meeting of the Learned Societies, Charlottetown, 21 May, 1992. •"Abbo of Fleury and the Reckoning of Time." 25th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May, 1990, as part of a special session I organized on "The Reckoning of Time: Computus, Calendars and Chronology." •"How did Dymphna Become the Patron Saint of the Insane?" 24th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 6 May, 1989. •"Palaeography, Codicology and the History of Science: MS Oxford St John's College 17 and the Typology of Medieval Computus Manuscripts." 23rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 6 May, 1988. •"The Catholicon of Giovanni Balbi of Genoa and its Relationship to the Magnae Derivationes of Uguccione of Pisa." 22nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 8 May, 1987. •"The Making of MS Oxford St John's College 17." Medieval Academy of America, University of Toronto, 24 April, 1987.
SCHOLARLY ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES
Manuscript appraisal
Books Boydell and Brewer Focus Press Penn State University Press Oxford University Press Studies in Early Medicine (British Archaeological Association) University of California Press University of Pennsylvania Press University of Toronto Press Versita Press Wilfred Laurier University Press
Articles Agricultural History Ancient History Review AVISTA Forum Bulletin of the History of Medicine Canadian Bulletin of Medical History
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Canadian Medical Association Journal English Historical Review Journal of British Studies Journal of English and Germanic Philology Journal of Medieval History Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Manuscripta The Mediaeval Journal Physis Speculum Traditio Transcultural Psychiatry Research Review Social History of Medicine
Grant and fellowship application appraisals
AMS/Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine. Research Advisory Committee. 1993- 2000 Osler Library Research Fellowships Committee. 1986-present Grant appraisals for AMS/Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine, 2002 Grant appraisal for Wellcome Trust, London. 2002, 2009, 2010, 2011 •Post-Doctoral Fellowship application for Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2012. • Post-Doctoral Fellowship application for the National University of Ireland, Galway, 2012. •Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, 2014. •Grant appraisal for SSHRC, 2014, 2018 Application appraisal, American Academy in Berlin (Berlin Prize) 2016 Fellowship appraisal, Trinity Long Room Hub Marie Sklodowska-Curie Visiting Research Fellows, Trinity College, Dublin. 2018.
Prize juries Canadian Society of Medievalists. Jury member, Madelaine Wade Labarge Prize, 2005
Tenure and contract renewal (external assessor) •External evaluator for tenure, University of Notre Dame, Dept. of Art History and Design, 2013 • External evaluator for tenure, Ithaca College, Dept. of History, 2012 External evaluator for tenure, University of Toronto, Dept. for the Study of Religion, 2009 External evaluator for Contract Renewal, Queen's University, Dept. of History 1993
ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS Medieval Academy of America. Société des études médiévales du Québec. American Association for the History of Medicine. 18
Canadian Society for the History of Medicine. History of Science Society. Association of Canadian Medievalists.
TEACHING Only currently active courses listed. Courses marked with an asterisk were conceived and designed by me.
Undergraduate courses
Faculty of Arts. HIST 214 Introduction to European History HIST 249 Health and Healer in Western History HIST 356* Medicine in the Medieval West HIST 380 Western Europe in the Middle Ages HIST 401 *Topics in Medieval Culture and Society HIST 449* Medicine in the Ancient World HIST 452* Medicine in Europe 1500-1700, HIST 466/636,* 496/637* Honours/Graduate Seminar: Medieval Medicine MDST 400* Interdisciplinary Seminar in Medieval Studies.
Faculty of Medicine. Med IV "Medicine and Society" electives "A Brief History of Anatomical Illustration"*; "Hippocrates: Logos and the Art in Ancient Medicine"*; *"Was the Black Death 'Plague'?" *"The Epidemic Narrative: from Athens to Ebola", *"The Rise and Fall and Rise of Tuberculosus.". Occasional lectures in Blocks on Circulation and Skeleton (Med I).
Undergraduate supervision (honour theses, independent studies)
Bryna Cameron-Steinke: Manuscripts in the Landscape: the Case of the Fenlands (2016) Katrina Hannah: Domestic architecture in late medieval Scotland (2015) Lou Mo (BA/BSc Independent Study): Court Physicians in 17th c. France and Ming China 2012 Heather Laird: [Medieval Optical Theory] (2007) Sara Citron: The Cholera Epidemic of 1832 (2007) Kate Tomczykiewicz: The Medieval Church (2004) Emma Shepherd-Lanza: The Social Context of Medieval Spectacle (2003) Sarah Johnson: The Lindisfarne Gospels (2002) Annick Brabant: Alexander Neckham on Birds (2002); Papacy in 12th Century (2003) Jennifer Harrison: The Black Death (2002) Thea Lim: The British Borderlands in the 12th Century (2001-2002) Julia Pope: Female Crime in Late Medieval England (1999-2000) Charles Aronowitz and Greg Fisher: Sub-Roman Europe (1998-1999)
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Karen Lurhkur: The Body in Medieval Culture (Ind. Study, History & Philosophy of Science, 1999) Jessica Robertson: Anthroposophic Medicine (Ind. Study, History & Philosophy of Science, 1998) Lynn Mikula: American medical education since 1865. (1997) Leah LaGasse: Medieval manuscript illumination (1996) Raghu Venoghopal: Sir William Osler (1996) Anna Maria Mea: Medieval food practices (1996) Elizabeth Kerstetter: The Medieval Inquisition (1994-1996) Mitra Sharafi: Medieval reading (1994-1996) Michel Leonard: Medieval alchemy (1995) Hailey Tepperman: The Black Death (1994) Martha Dulmage: Early medieval sacral kingship (1993-1995) Fiona Deller: Hildegard of Bingen (1991-1993) Janine Luce: Beguines (1990-1992) Blake Gopnik: The 11th Century (1987-1988) Elizabeth Massey: Catharism (1986-1988)
Graduate student supervision
MA and PhD Theses supervised Sonya Pihura (PhD in progress) title TBD Emily Parrent (PhD in progress) title TBD •Courtney Krolikoski (PhD in Progress): [The Leper Hospitals of Medieval Bologna] •Cosimo Calabro (PhD in progress): [A Biography of Charles Nicholas Jenty] •Caley McCarthy (PhD in progress): [The Hôpital du Saint-Ésprit in Marseille in the later Middle Ages] Anna Dysert (PhD in progress): [Manuscripts and the transmission of Isaac Judaeus' Diaetae universales et particulares] Sally Ragep (PhD) "Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Jaghmīnī’s al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾa al-basīṭa: An Edition, Translation, and Study." 2014 (co-supervised with Robert Wisnovsky) Cosimo Calabro (MA) "Cosmopolitan Anatomy and Surgery in the Age of Enlightenment: Multiple Peripheries in the Career of Charles Nicholas Jenty" (2013) Kathleen Reynolds (MA): "Women's Informal Medicine, Experience and Authority in Medieval and Early Modern Europe." (2013) Tim Newfield (PhD). "Disease, Climate and Economy in Carolingian Europe." (2010) Iwona Perlin (PhD in progress). "Rebuilding God's House: a comparative approach to the study of late medieval Dutch and English hospitals." Geneviève Dumas (PhD). "Les pratiques de la santé à Montpellier à la fin du moyen âge." (2000) Robert Bouskill (MA). "The Appeal to Heroes: Lineage Myths and Crusade Preaching, 900-1150." (1996)
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Roy Hanes (PhD, co-directed with Eric Shragg). "The Medicalization of Disability: the Rise of the Crippled Child Saving Movement in Ontario, 1880-1940." (1995) Stuart Macdonald (MA). "Aosta, Bec and Canterbury: Reconsidering the Vocations of St Anselm (1033-1109) as Scholar, Monk and Bishop." (1990)
PhD dissertation committee membership Rebecca Golding (University of Toronto, Dept. of Art History) 2017-present Gwyndaff Garbutt (University of Toronto, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology) 2010-2018 Shirley Kenney (University of Toronto, Centre for Medieval Studies, 2017-) Title TBD Callan Ross-Sheppard (Anthropology, 2016-) Ashley Girty . "The Rhetoric of Medical Empiricism: the Early Modern Medical Marketplace and English Women's Recipe Books." (English, 2015-) •Azélina Jaboulet-Vercherre (PhD, Yale University; supervisor: Paul Freedman) "Wine, the Physician, the Drinker and the Drunk: Late Medieval Medical Views on Wine's Uses, Pleasures, and Problems." (2011) Margaret Ng (History, 2005-2013) Lian Chang (Architecture, 2006-2009)
MA Research Papers supervised • Naomi Stanley, "Medical Ethics in 17th century England." (2014) •Marri Knadle "Spices in the Tacuinum Sanitatis: A Long-View Survey of 12 Materia Medica." (2011) •Felicity Mithen "Suicide at the Old Bailey, 1720-1850." (2011) Gregory Fisher. "Crisis, Provincial Historiography and Ethnic Identity in Sub-Roman Britain." (2004) Lisa Chen. "Miracles and Medicine at the Shrine of Thomas Becket." (2000). Fiona Deller. "Hildegard of Bingen's Causae et Curae: the Medical Writings of a Twelfth Century German Mystic." (1996)
Thesis examination (defence jury/ internal or external reader: unless otherwise specified, all are McGill theses)
MA theses/research papers: Maria Osorio (History, 2016) Barbara Hargreaves (History, Durham University [U.K.] 2016) Emily Halpert-Cole (English 2016) Simon Beaulieu (History 2015) Jade Cabanas (History 2009) Heidi Støa (English 2008) Jennifer Préfontaine (Langue et littérature françaises, 2006) Jake Walsh Morrissey (English 2005) Jean-Sébastien Sauvé (Art History and Communications, 2005)
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Olivier Dufault (History, 2004) Ariane Magny (History, 2004) Genevieve Gamache (Art History and Communications, 2003) Aisha Lee Shaheed (History, 2003) Nadine Korte (History, 2003) Christine Gonsalves (History, 2002) Beth Emery (Art History, 1999) Katherine Sowley (Art History, 1999) M. Justin McGrail (Art History, 1995)
PhD theses: Bruce Gilchrist (English 2017) Omri Bassewitch Frenkel (History 2017) Ron Jelaco (Architecture 2016) Andrew Dunning (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto 2016) Ben Berootes (English 2014) Lin Fan (Art History and Communications Studies 2014) Tiffany Hoffmann (English 2013) Margaret Ng (History, 2013) Remi Chiu (Music, 2012) Margaret Carlyle (History, 2012) Raphael Nájera (Philosophy, 2011) Bilal Bas (Faculty of Religious Studies, 2008) Rowshan Nemazee (Faculty of Religious Studies, 2007) David Dorais (Langue et littérature françaises, 2006) Noémie Tousignant (History, 2006) Elizabeth Alexandrin (Islamic Studies, 2006) Jean-Luc Gauville (History 2005) Cynthia Zurla (German Studies 2005) Marc Robichaud (History 2004) Derek Neal (History 2004) Mary-Louise Mitchell (Faculty of Religious Studies, 2004) Jason Szabo (History 2003) Deanna MacDonald (Art History and Communications, 2002) Masarah van Eyck (History 2001) Greg Caicco (School of Architecture, 1999) Eric Amyot (History 1998) Maureen Malowany (History 1997) Dawn Morgan (English 1997) Stephen Bruhm (English 1992)
Graduate tutorials and comprehensive field preparation (Students are in the Dept. of History and Classical Studies unless otherwise specified) Katherine Sams (MinMinor Field, 1993)
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Eric Amyot (Minor Field, 1994) Katherine Harvey (Minor Field, 1994) Aileen Baird (Minor Field, 1996) Eve Meighan (Dept. of Art History and Communications, graduate tutorial 2003) Olivier Dufault (tutorial, 2003) Iwona Perlin (Major Field, 2004) Wilson Will (Anthropology, graduate tutorial 2004) Margaret Ng (Minor Field, 2005) Gregory Fisher (Graduate Tutorial 2004-2005) Jake Walsh Morrissey (Graduate Tutorial, Dept. of English, 2006) Spyros Caragiannis (Graduate Tutorial, 2006-2007) Tim Newfield (Major Field, 2006-2007) Jake Walsh Morrissey (Comprehensive Research Project, Dept, of English, 2007) Elisabeth Ritter (Minor Field, 2008 abandoned) Sally Ragep (Institute of Islamic Studies - Graduate Tutorial, 2008) Geoffrey Wallace (Minor field, 2011-2012) Caley McCarthy (Major Field, 2011-2012) Ronald Young (Minor Field, 2011-2012) Sarah Eastly (Minor Field) 2013 Courtney Krolikowski (Major Field) 2014-2015 Cynthia Tang (Minor Field) 2016 Carleigh Nicholls (Minor Field) 2015-2016 Philippe Grenon (Insitute of Islamic Studies - Graduate tutorial, 2016-2017) Patrick Outhwaite (English – Graduate tutorial 2016)
Post-Doctoral Fellows Supervised Alice Hutton Sharp (Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship) 2015-2018 Keren Abbou Hershkowitz (Transmission, Translation and Transformation Post-Doctoral fellow) 2009-2011 (with Jamil Ragep) Marc Carrier (FQRSC) 2006-2008 Geneviève Dumas (AMS/Hannah Institute) 2000-2002
Other graduate supervision Peter Darby, University of Birmingham (UK): Universitas 21 Visiting Doctoral Student "Bede's Eschatological Thought" (June 2009)
Medical student research projects supervised (for Med I research component and/or Osler Library Curators Prize competition) André Lametti (2017) Alexander Ni (2017) Jonah Daborah (2016) Michael Destounis (2016) Rachel Lemoine (2016) Sarah McRae (2016)
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Isabelle Combey (2014) Julian Xue (2014) Winner, Curators' Prize.
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY AND THE COMMUNITY
University Administrative Service University Appeals Board. Member. 1991-1992 University Senate. Elected member (Arts). 1994-2000 Senate Comm. on the Coordination of Student Services. Senate Representative. 1995- 1998 Senate Nominating Committee. Elected Member. 1996-1997 Board of Governors. Elected Member. 1997-1998 Selection Committee for Dean of Education. Senate Representative. 1998 Budget Planning Group. Senate Representative 1999-2000 Workgroup on Health Related Programs. Member 1999 Staff Grievance & Discipline Committee. Member & Vice-Chair 2001-2004, Chair 2004- 2007 Faculty Reader, Major Scholarship Applications (Scholarships and Student Aid Office), 2007 University Appeals Board. Member 2008 University Tenure Committee, 2009 Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee (Office of the Dean of Students) 2009-2010
Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Committee on Conferences, Pre-Publications, and Seminars. Member, 1991-1995. Chair 1993-1995 SSHRC/Majors Fellowships Ranking Committee (Humanities). Member 1996-1999 Selection Committee: Associate Vice-Principal (Graduate Studies). Member 1997
Faculty of Arts Distinguished Lectureships Committee. Member 1991-1994 Planning Committee. Member 1992-1995 Humanities and Social Sciences Area Library Advisory Committee. Member 1992-1996 Teaching Committee. Member 1999, Chair 2000 Curriculum Committee. Member 1999-2000, 2009-2012; Chair 2012-2014 Faculty of Arts. History and Philosophy of Science Program Committee. Chair 1997-2000 Classics Program Advisory Committee. Chair 1998-2000 Ad hoc advisory committee to Dean of Arts on Classics Program. Chair 2002 Faculty Program Review. Multi-Track Subcommittee. Member. 2005-2007 Legacy Option Committee, Member 2006-2008 Dean's Representative on Search Committees: English 1991, 1994; Islamic Studies 2003; Islamic Studies CRC Tier 2 2006; English 2007; East Asian Studies 2012; Religious Studies (Director) 2017 24
Faculty of Medicine Cyclical Review Committee, Dept. of Medicine. Member 1993 Osler Sesquicentennial Committee. Member 1997-1999 Accreditation Committee, Section E. Member 1999 Osler Lectureship Committee. Chair 2001-2011 Anne McCormick Prize Committee 2004, 2005, 2006 Bicentennial Planning Committee 2017
Department of History and Classical Studies Academic Secretary. 1986-1987, 1989-1990 Speakers Committee. Member 1987-1988 Majors Committee. Member 1989-1990, 1994-1995 Honours Committee. Member 1992-1994, 2009-2010; Chair 2012-2014 Teaching Assistants Committee. Chair 1997-1999 Graduate Committee. Member 1997-1998, 2003-2004 Curriculum Committee. Chair 1998-2000 Communication and Fundraising Committee. Member 2014-2015 Development and Renewal Committee. Chair 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007. Member 2011-2012 Classics Program Committee 1998-2000 Promotion and Tenure Committee 2004-2005 Minors Committee. Chair 2007 (fall term); 2008 (fall term); 2010-2012. Search Committees: British History 1993, 1995; Roman History 1999, 2004; U.S. Colonial History (Chair) 2002; Chinese History 2003; MacNaughton Chair of Ancient History 2004, 2005; Early Modern Europe 2004; Ad hoc (Spousal hire) 2009-2010; Late Imperial/Modern China (chair) (2013-2014). Director, Research and Awards: 2016-2018
Library System Promotions Committee, Senior Librarian. Member 1987-1989 Osler Library. Board of Curators. Member 1986-present
McGill Association of University Teachers Member of Council. 1997-1999 Secretary-Treasurer. 1998-1999
Other Academic and Professional Administration Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine, Toronto. Review Committee, Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine, University of Western Ontario. 1992 Société d'Études Médiévales du Québec. Conseil d'administration, 1989-1991 Canadian Society for the History of Medicine. Nominating Committee, 1992-1994; Chair, Local Arrangements, 1995 Meeting (at Learned Societies Conference) 25
• American Association for the History of Medicine. Local Arrangement Committee for Montreal Meeting, 2009.
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