Neslihan Şenocak

Neslihan Şenocak

Research Interest

Europe
Latin America and the Caribbean
Religion
Intellectual and Cultural
Social History
Pre-17th Century

Education

Diploma in Medieval and Franciscan Studies — Pontifical University Antonianum, Rome, Italy, 2003
Licencein Mediaeval Studies — Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada, 2002
Ph.D. — Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2002
M.A. — Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 1997
B.S. — Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 1994

Interests and Research

Neslihan Şenocak, associate professor, specializes in medieval religious, intellectual and social history, in particular the Franciscan Order, popular religion, the rise of scholastic education, the history of criminal justice and the social and legal history of the medieval Italian communes.

Courses

  • Once Upon a Time: Daily Life in Medieval Europe (lecture)
  • Medieval Religious Orders (graduate seminar)
  • Comparative Topics in Religious History: Medieval Europe and Colonial Latin America (graduate seminar)
  • Medieval Popular Religion (graduate seminar)
  • Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 1000-1500
  • Medieval Italy, 1000-1400
  • Medieval Religious Life and Thought (lecture)
  • Contemporary Civilization I & II

Awards

  • Fellows' Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2015-16
  • I Tatti Fellowship, Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 2013-14
  • Columbia MacDonald Summer Fellow, 2012
  • Dr. M. Aylwin Cotton Foundation Research Fellowship, 2005
  • Research Grant - Pontifical University Antonianum, Rome and Società Internazionale di Studi Francescani, Assisi, 2005
  • The Bibliographical Society (Edinburgh, UK) Research Grant, 2005
  • Invited Visiting Research Fellow - Institute for the Religious Sciences, Trento, Italy, 2004
  • Distinguished International Publication Award - Turkish Academy of the Sciences (TUBA), 2004
  • Postdoctoral Fellow - Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame, 2003
  • Joseph Wey Postdoctoral Fellow - Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada, 2001
  • J.R.H. Moorman Residential Scholarship - St. Deiniol's Library, North Wales, United Kingdom, 2001
  • Nostra Aetate Foundation Research Grant - Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Rome, 1999
  • Columbia MacDonald Summer Fellow, 2012

Affiliations

  • Hagiography Society, President
  • American Historical Association
  • Medieval Academy of America
  • American Society of Church History
  • Society for Italian Historical Studies

Publications

Books

(forthcoming) Italy and Christianity, 1050-1300, co-edited with Agostino Paravicini Bagliani. Cornell UP, 2019.

(forthcoming) Teacher as Shepherd: Theology and Care of Souls at the time Lateran IV (1215), co-edited with Clare Monagle. Brepols, 2018.

(forthcoming) Care of Souls in Medieval Italy, 600-1300. Cornell University Press, 2019.

The Poor and the Perfect: the Rise of Learning in the Franciscan Order 1209-1310. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, 2012.

Scholarly Articles

(forthcoming) “Coming Together as an Apostolic Act: Associative Tendencies of the Christian Faithful in Italy” in Between Orders and Heresy: Rethinking Medieval Religious Movements, ed. Anne Lester and Jennifer Deane (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2018)

(forthcoming) “What Do Episcopal Visitations Tell about Religious Life in North Italy, 1200-1500?” in Renaissance Religions, ed. Peter Howard, Nicholas Terpstra and Riccardo Saccenti Europe Sacra 23. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2019)

(in press) “Horizontal Learning in the Medieval Italian Canonries,” in Horizontal Learning within High Medieval Religious Communities, ed. Steven Vanderputten, Tjamke Sniders and Micol Long (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018)

(in press) “Le Commentaire des quatre maîtres sur la Règle franciscaine,” in Autourd’Alexandre de Halès: la monographie, ed. Claire Angotti, Sophie Delmas, and Dominique Poirel, Bibliothèque d’Histoire Culturelle du Moyen Âge (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017).

(in press) “English Friars and Their Influence on the Early History of the Franciscan Order,” in Miscellanea in Memoriam of J.R.H. Moorman, ed. Michael Robson and Patrick Zutshi (London: Routledge, 2017).

“Twelfth-Century Italian Confraternities as Institutions of Pastoral Care,” Journal of Medieval History 42 (2016).

"Twelfth-century Italian confraternities as Instititions of Pastoral Care," Journal of Medieval History, May 2016.

"The Making of Franciscan Poverty," Revue Mabillon, revue internationale d'histoire et de littérature religieuses, nouv. ser, 24 (t. 85), 5-26.

“Franciscan Studium Generale: A New Interpretation” in Philosophy and Theology in the Studia of the Religious Orders and at the Papal Court, ed. K. Emery, Jr., William Courtenay, and Stephen M. Metzger, Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, 2012, 221-236. 

“Voluntary Simplicity: the Attitude of Francis toward Learning in his Medieval Biographies” in Cambridge Companion to Saint Francis of Assisi, ed. Michael Robson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 84-100.

"The Earliest Library Catalogue of the Franciscan Convent of St. Fortunato of Todi (c. 1300),"Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 99 (2006) 467-505.

"EarlyFourteenth-Century Franciscan Library Catalogues: The Case of the Gubbio Catalogue (c. 1300)," Scriptorium, 59 (2005) 29-50.

"Circulation of Books in the Medieval Franciscan Order: Attitude, Methods and Critics," Journal of Religious History, 28 (2004) 146-161.

"Book Acquisition in the Medieval Franciscan Order," Journal of Religious History, 27 (2003) 14-28.