Ph.D., University of Toronto (1973)
Medieval Intellectual History; Monastic Studies. Director: Institute of Cistercian Studies. Editorial Director, Cistercian Publications Inc.


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Office: Walwood 202E
E-mail: e.rozanne.elder@wmich.edu
Phone: (269) 387-8920
Webpages:
http://www.wmich.edu/cistern
http://www.spencerabbey.org/cistpub

Teaching

Graduate seminars and reading courses explore the writers and ideas operative in cathedral schools / universities and monasteries; saints’ lives as a medium for articulating and circulating popular, liturgical, and theological models; and the doctrinal and institutional development of medieval Christianity, west and east. Students are asked to learn to discern information by reading primary sources, in translation and in Latin, and to learn to find information by using published scholarly aids.

Research

The theology, spirituality, and institutions of the Cistercian Order, especially during its formative period in the first half of the twelfth century; monastic reform movements and associations of reform-minded abbots contemporary with the Cistercians.

Recent (and forthcoming) Publications

`Communities of Reform in the Province of Rheims: The Benedictine`Chapter General’ of 1131', in Mark F. Williams, ed., The Making of Christian Communities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. London: Anthem Press, 2005. Pages117-129, 182-188.

`Shadows on the Marian Wall: The Cistercians and the Development of Marian Doctrine’ in Marsha Dutton, Daniel M. La Corte, Paul Lockey, edd., Truth As Gift: Studies in Medival Cistercian History in Honor of John R.. Sommerfeldt (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 2004) 537-574.

`Macula nigra et virgo immaculata. Bernard's Tests for True Doctrine', in Cistercian Studies Quarterly 38:4 (2003) 423-438.

`The Foundations of Cistercian Devotion to Mary', Introduction to Mary Most Holy: Meditating with the Early Cistercians, ed. E. Rozanne Elder, Cistercian Fathers Series, Nbr. 65. Pp. ix-xxxi.Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 2003.

Editor: Praise No Less Than Charity: Studies in Honor of M. Chrysogonus Waddell. (Cistercian Publications, 2002)

`Trappisten’, Theologische Realenzyklopädie. Berlin-New York: Verlag Walter de Gruyter. Forthcoming 2002.

`Guillaume de Saint Thierry et le chapitre général bénédictin de 1131' in Signy l’abbaye, site cistercien enfoui, site de mémoire et Guillaume de Saint-Thierry. Actes du Colloque international d’Etudes cisterciennes 9, 10, 11 septembre 1998, Les Vieilles Forges (Ardennes), réunis par Nicole Boucher. Signy L’abbaye: Association des amis de l’abbaye de Signy, 2000. pp. 487-504.

`Christologie de Guillaume de Saint-Thierry et vie spirituelle’, in Signy l’abbaye, site cistercien enfoui, site de mémoire et Guillaume de Saint-Thierry. Actes du Colloque international d’Etudes cisterciennes 9, 10, 11 septembre 1998, Les Vieilles Forges (Ardennes), réunis par Nicole Boucher. Signy L’abbaye: Association des amis de l’abbaye de Signy, 2000. pp. 575-587.

Editor, The New Monastery. Texts and Studies on the Early Cistercians. Kalamazoo, 1998.