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A historian of medieval and Renaissance Italy,
Daniel Bornstein works on the role of religion in everyday
life. He is the author of The Bianchi of 1399: Popular
Devotion in Late Medieval Italy and a score of articles on the
religious culture of medieval Europe, and co-editor (with
Roberto Rusconi) of Women and Religion in Medieval and
Renaissance Italy. His translations of medieval Italian texts
include Dino Compagni’s Chronicle of Florence and Bartolomea
Riccoboni, Life and Death in a Venetian Convent: The Chronicle
and Necrology of Corpus Domini, 1395-1436. He has held
fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, the
National Endowment for the
Humanities, and the National Humanities Center, and served as
a visiting professor at the Università degli studi di Milano
and the Central European University. He is presently writing a
book on religion, culture, and society in medieval Cortona and
editing the volume on medieval Christianity for the
seven-volume People’s History of Christianity. In addition to
teaching in the Department of History (for which he recently
received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the
Association of Former Students), he directs the
Interdisciplinary Program in Religious Studies. |
