Joëlle Rollo-Koster
Joëlle Rollo-Koster is a Professor of Medieval History in the University of Rhode Island's History Department. On December 6, 2016, she was knighted by the French government with the medal of Chevalier des Palmes académiques. In 2017-2018 she was a EURIAS Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study.Education
Joëlle Rollo-Koster received her undergraduate degree and master's degree in history from the University of Nice, France. She earned a PhD in History at SUNY Binghamton in 1992 where she was a student of Richard Trexler.Selected publications
As author
- Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great Western Schism , 2008, Brill,
- The People of Curial Avignon: A Critical Edition of the Liber Divisionis and the Matriculae of Notre Dame la Majour, 2009, Edwin Mellen Press,
- Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309–1417: Popes, Institutions, and Society, 2015, Rowman and Littlefield,
- Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed, Routledge, 2016,
As editor
- Medieval and Early Modern Ritual: Formalized Behavior in Europe, China and Japan, 2002, Brill,
- A Companion to the Great Western Schism , 2009, Brill,
- For the Salvation of my Soul: Women and Wills in Medieval and Early Modern France, 2012, Centre for French History and Culture of the University of St Andrews,
Recognition
- 2008 Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship
- 2016 The medal of Chevalier des Palmes académiques
- 2018 URI: Recipient URI Foundation, Scholarly Excellence Award
