Giles Constable
MEDIEVAL HISTORY
Professor Emeritus
School of Historical
Studies

Giles Constable has published more than 20 books in the area of medieval religious and intellectual history, including Monastic Tithes from their Origins to the Twelfth Century (1964), The Letters of Peter the Venerable (2 vols.,1967), Medieval Monasticism: A Select Bibliography (1976), People and Power in Byzantium (with Alexander Kazhdan, 1982), Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought (1995), The Reformation of the Twelfth Century (1996) and Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence: The Case of Antonio Rinaldeschi (with William J. Connell, 2005), as well as over a hundred articles, most of which have been reprinted in five volumes.

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1957, H. C. Lea Professor of Medieval History, 1966-77, Professor of History, 1977-85; Director, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1977-85; Institute for Advanced Study, Professor, 1985-2003, Emeritus, 2003-; President, New England Medieval Conference, New England Historical Association, Medieval Academy of America; Member (Corresponding), Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Bavarian Academy of Sciences, British Academy, Instituto Lombardo; Fellow, American Philosophical Society; Fellow (Corresponding), Royal Historical Society.