Isabelle Cochelin teaches in the Department of History. Professor Cochelin’s work investigates medieval monasticism from a socio-religious point of view. Her publications deal with the internal structure, daily life, ideals, and external relationships of medieval monasteries, especially in the 10th and 11th centuries. She is presently working on various collaborative and inter-disciplinary projects with scholars in France, Germany, the U.K. and the United States, preparing the editions, translations and analyses of various primary sources from the abbey of Cluny, as well as collected volumes on the medieval life-cycle and entrance into the monastery. She is also preparing a monograph on medieval monastic customaries. She is the co-director of a series of Brepols (Turnhout, Belgium), entitled Disciplina Monastica.
Department of History
BSc (McGill), Licence, maîtrise, D.E.A. (Paris IV-Sorbonne), PhD (Montreal)
Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St.
tel:(416) 978-7414
email:isabelle.cochelin@utoronto.ca
Areas of research
Medieval monasticism, discourse on the body and the life cycle, hagiography
Co-editor of the series Disciplina Monastica (Brepols) with Professor Susan Boynton (Columbia University).
Selected publications
2010, forthcoming. K. Smyth and I. Cochelin (Ed.) Medieval Life-cycles: Continuities and Change
2009. ”When the Monks were the Book (6th-11th cent)”
2006. “La singularité de l’œuvre de Bernard au regard de l’histoire des coutumiers”
2006. S. Boynton and I. Cochelin (Ed), From Dead of Night to End of Day: The Medieval Cluniac Customs – Du coeur de la nuit à la fin du jour: les coutumes clunisiennes au Moyen Age
2006. “Community and Customs: Obedience or Agency?”
2006. (w/Susan Boynton) “The Sociomusical Role of Child Oblates at the Abbey of Cluny in the Eleventh Century”
2006. “When the Monks were the Book (6th-11th cent)”