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Alison I. Beach

Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University

I am an historian of religion in the Middle Ages with current interest in women as producers of books and in religious communities that housed both women and men in the premodern era. My personal website abeach.org and I maintain a blog, Scriptrix.org.

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University

Education

  • 1996 
    Columbia University, PhD

Publications

  • 2019
    The Cambridge New History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West (ed. with Isabelle Cochelin), Cambridge University Press
  • 2017
    The Trauma of Monastic Reform: Community and Conflict in Twelfth-Century Germany, Cambridge University Press
  • 2004
    Women as Scribes: Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria, Cambridge University Press