Joëlle Rollo-Koster is a French medievalist working as a professor of medieval history at the

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Life

Joëlle Rollo-Koster received her undergraduate degree and master's degree in history from the

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, France. She earned a Ph.D. in history at

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in 1992 where she was a student of Richard Trexler. On December 6, 2016, she was knighted by the French government with the medal of

Chevalier des Palmes académiques Chevalier may refer to: Honours Belgium * a rank in the Belgian Order of the Crown * a rank in the Belgian Order of Leopold * a rank in the Belgian Order of Leopold II * a title in the Belgian nobility France * a rank in the French Legion d'h ...

. In 2017-2018 she was a EURIAS Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. In 2024, she was elected a fellow of the

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Selected publications

As author

*''Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great Western Schism (1378)'', 2008,

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, *''The People of Curial Avignon: A Critical Edition of the Liber Divisionis and the Matriculae of Notre Dame la Majour'', 2009,

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, *''Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309–1417: Popes, Institutions, and Society'', 2015, Rowman and Littlefield, *''The Great Western Schism, 1378–1417: Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity'', 2022,

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As editor

*''Medieval and Early Modern Ritual: Formalized Behavior in Europe, China and Japan'', 2002, Brill, *(Co-edited, with Thomas M. Izbicki) ''A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378-1417)'', 2009, Brill, *(Co-edited, with Kathryn Reyerson) ''For the Salvation of my Soul: Women and Wills in Medieval and Early Modern France'', 2012, Centre for French History and Culture of the University of St Andrews, *''Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed'', Routledge, 2016, *(Co-edited, with Robert A. Ventresca, Melodie H. Eichbauer, and Miles Pattenden) ''The Cambridge History of the Papacy, volume 1: The Two Swords'', 2025, Cambridge UP
ISBN 9781108485234
*(Co-edited, with Robert A. Ventresca, Melodie H. Eichbauer, and Miles Pattenden) ''The Cambridge History of the Papacy, volume 2: The Governance of the Church'', 2025, Cambridge UP
ISBN 9781108493826
*(Co-edited, with Robert A. Ventresca, Melodie H. Eichbauer, and Miles Pattenden) ''The Cambridge History of the Papacy III: volume 3: Civil Society'', 2025, Cambridge U
ISBN 9781108493772

Recognition

* 2008

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for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship * 2016 The medal of

* 2018 URI: Recipient URI Foundation, Scholarly Excellence Award

References

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