Education:
Ph.D., Yale University - 2013 (History)
M.A., Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto - 2006 (Medieval Studies)
B.A., Columbia College, Columbia University - 2005 (English/Medieval Studies)
Areas of Expertise:
Mancia's current book project examines the spiritual writings of the Benedictine abbot John of Fécamp (ca. 990-1078 C.E.), who is responsible for the earliest known prayers to a suffering, crucified Christ. Drawing on the intellectual, visual, homiletic and liturgical culture of John's Norman monastery, her work sheds light on the emotional qualities of Benedictine monastic devotion and reform in the 11th century, and the high medieval monastic origins of later medieval affective piety.
Books and Publications
"John of Fécamp and Affective Reform in Eleventh-Century Normandy." Anglo-Norman Studies 37. Expected 2015. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2014
"Reading Augustine's Confessions in Normandy in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries." Tabularia "Études." Eds. M. Peyrafort, P. Bauduin, P. Bouet and C. Jacquernard. Expected 2014. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2014
Review of Karl F. Morrison and Rudolph M. Bell, eds. Studies on Medieval Empathies. Series: Disputatio 25 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013). In The Medieval Review, 14.03.11. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2014
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
HSS Mini-Grant. (Grants and Fellowships) 2014
Elizabeth Ann Bogert Grant for the Study of Christian Mysticism. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
Etienne Gilson Dissertation Grant, Medieval Academy of America. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
Fulbright Research Grant to France. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
John B. and Theta H. Wolf Travel Fellowship, Society for French Historical Studies. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
Travel Bursary for the Study of Medieval Languages & Literature, Medium Aevum. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
National Organization of Italian American Women Scholarship. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Jesus Through the Middle Ages: The Development of the Image and Doctrine of Christ in Medieval Christianity." St. Francis College. Brooklyn, N.Y., April 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"John of Fécamp and Affective Reform in Eleventh-Century Normandy." Battle Conference of Anglo-Norman Studies. Winchester, United Kingdom, July 29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"The Art of Reform at Fécamp." International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich. May 8-11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"The Invention of a Suffering God: Emotional Reform of Devotional Practice in a Medieval Monastery." Varieties of Academic Religious Experience Panel, Brooklyn College Faculty Day, May 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Visualizing Emotion: Cultivating Empathy and Modeling the Ineffable in Medieval Art." Department of Art History, Wellesley College. Wellesley, Mass., April 3. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Jean de Fécamp et la culture religieuse à son monastère au XI siècle." Journée d'études on the monastery of Fécamp. Université de Caen Basse-Normandie. Caen, France, June 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"John at Fécamp." International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich., May 9-12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Monastic Reform, Monastic Devotion, and the History of Emotions." New Directions in Medieval Scholarship Panel. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Nov. 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"Reading John of Fécamp in an Eleventh-Century Monastery." Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting. University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Knoxville, Tenn., April 4-6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Emotional Reform in the Eleventh-Century Monastery: The Case of John of Fécamp." Conventus Medieval Seminar. Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, Ghent University. Ghent, Belgium, May 23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"Writing a History of Religious Experience: The Case of John of Fécamp." Groupe de recherche sur les pouvoirs et les societés de l'Occident médiéval et moderne" Grepsomm, Université de Québec à Montréal. Montreal, Dec. 14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"The Monks of Fécamp and Their Ducal Patrons: Transformations of the Eleventh Century." Charles Homer Haskins Society Annual Meeting. Boston College. Boston, Nov. 4-6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"More Than Alpha et Omega: God the Father in Medieval York." International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich., May 9. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"A City for All the Faithful: Representations of the City of God in Two Canterbury Manuscripts of Augustine's De Civitate Dei." International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds. Leeds, United Kingdom, July 12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
Community Activities
"The Art of Monasticism." The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, July 19. 2014
Other Professional Activities
"Religious Reform as Emotional Reform: The Eleventh-Century Norman Monastery of Fécamp." Brooklyn College Historical Society. Brooklyn College, March 20. 2014
Featured guest on a History Café podcast (out of Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vt.) on "Affective Piety in the Middle Ages." Listen here: http://cosmo.marlboro.edu/thehistorycafe/affective-piety-with-lauren-mancia/. 2013
