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Lisa M. Bitel

Medieval historian specializing in Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, women's early religious communities and medieval art and archeology
  • Dean's Professor of Religion and Professor of History
Office: (213) 821-2150
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Expertise

  • Medieval Europe
  • Middle Ages
  • Medieval history
  • Church history
  • History of Christianity
  • History
  • Religion
  • Religious Studies
  • Christian Studies
  • Christianity
  • Medieval England
  • Anglo-Saxons
  • Ireland
  • Irish
  • Old Irish language
  • Early Ireland
  • Medieval Ireland
  • Celtic Studies
  • Celts
  • Saints
  • Visions
  • Virgin Mary
  • Monasticism
  • Gender history
  • Women's history
  • Medieval landscapes

Additional Information

  • Author of Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400-1100 (2002), Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender in Early Ireland (1996) and Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland (1990)
  • Editor of Matrix (http://monasticmatrix.org)
  • Editorial advisory board member, Journal of Women’s History