CONTACT INFORMATION:
School of History
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
 

Office Telephone:	+44 113 3433592
Office Fax:	+44(0) 113 343 4774
Active email:	E.M.Jamroziak@leeds.ac.uk
Relevant Webpage:	http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/staff/emilia_jamroziak.htm

SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Monasticism, especially Cistercians, social networks, medieval frontiers of northern Europe

Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:

Books:
Rievaulx abbey and its social context 1132-1300: memory, locality and networks (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005) 

Religious and Laity in Northern Europe 1000-1400: Interaction, Negotiation, and Power 2, ed. E.M. Jamroziak and J.E. Burton (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007)

Book chapters and articles:

"Considerate Brothers or Predatory Neighbours? Rievaulx Abbey and Other Monastic Houses in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Century," Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 73 (2001), pp.29-40.

"Klosterstiftungen polnischer Adeligen im 12. Jahrhundert: Fragen nach Motiven und Selbstdarstellung," East Central Europe = L'Europe du Centre-est, 29 (2002), pp.155-166.

"Rievaulx Abbey and its Patrons: Between Cooperation and Conflict," Citeaux: Commentarii Cistercienses 43 (2002), pp.51-72.

"Rievaulx abbey as a wool producer in the late thirteenth century: Cistercians, sheep and big debts," Northern History 40.2 (2003), pp.197-218.

"Making and breaking the bonds: Yorkshire Cistercians and their Neighbours," in Terryl Kinder, ed., Perspectives for an Architecture of Solitude: Essays on Cistercians, Art and Architecture in Honour of Peter Fergusson, 11 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), pp.198-206.
 
"The Networks of Markets and Networks of Patronage in the 13th century England," in M. Prestwich, R. Britnell, R. Frame, eds., Thirteenth Century England, 10 (Boydell and Brewer, 2005), pp.41-49.

"Making friends beyond the grave: Melrose Abbey and its lay burials in the thirteenth century," Citeaux: Commentarii Cistercienses 56 (2005), pp.323-336.

"St Mary Graces: a Cistercian House in the Late Medieval London," in P. Trio and M. De Smet, eds., The Use and Abuse of Sacred Places in late Medieval Towns, 38 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2006), pp.153-164.

Forthcoming:

"Genealogy in the Monastic Chronicles," in Broken Lines: Genealogy in Medieval Britain and France, ed. Raluca L. Radulescu and Edward D. Kennedy (Brepols)

"Holm Cultram Abbey: A Story of Success?" in Northern History

"Border Communities Between Violence and Opportunities: Pomerania and Scotland Compared," in Britain and Poland-Lithuania Contact and Comparison, ed. Richard Unger (Brill)

"Cistercian monasteries on northern frontiers and their social context: comparative study of Scotland and Pomerania," in Klosterforschung. Befunde, Projekte, Perspektiven, ed. Heinz-Dieter Heimann (Universität Potsdam, Historisches Institut)

"Remembering and Forgetting in the Cistercian cartularies," in Challenging the Boundaries of Medieval History, ed. Patricia Skinner (Boydell and Brewer)  
 

WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:

History of the Medieval Book:

Medieval Chronicle Studies:
 

Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:

Mike Spence, ‘The influence of Cistercian Stewardship on the North Craven landscape’ (co-supervisor)

Kate Wiles’ PhD dissertation ‘Post-Conquest Old English charters’ (advising tutor)
 

STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
 

MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:

MA level:

HIST 5110 ‘Medieval Yorkshire’, MEDV 5120 ‘Manuscript Studies’

UG level:

HIST 3290 ‘Popular Belief in Medieval West 1000-c.1500’; HIST 2210 ‘English History 1066-1216’; HIST 2211 ‘English History 1216-1399’; HIST 2110 ‘The Cult of Saints in Medieval Europe’; HIST 1090 ‘Medieval and Renaissance Europe’; HIST 1050 ‘Historical Skills: Montaillou by E. Le Roy Ladurie’; HIST 1300 ‘Primary Sources for the Historian: El Cid’.
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MEDIEVAL COURSES WOULD LIKE TO SEE DEVELOPED:

Later medieval monasticism and comparative border studies at the MA level.