Was There an Observant Cistercian Movement? Reform in the Medieval History of the Cistercian Order

Emilia Jamroziak is a Professor of Medieval Religious History at the University of Leeds and an alumna of the Central European University. She has published 3 monographs and 3 collected volumes on various aspects of monastic social and cultural history in Northwest and East Central Europe. Her forthcoming book, under contract with Amsterdam University Press, explores Cistercian engagement with the cult of the saint between 1300 and the early 16th century. Jamroziak was a 2015-16 Humboldt Fellow at TU Dresden and a 2019-20 Marie Curie- and Horizon 2020-funded fellow at the University of Erfurt. She has been the recipient of 4 Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) grants and her current work focuses on the constructions of the historiography of Latin monasticism since the 19th century.