Acting Department Head
Professor
Office: 454 Fletcher Argue Building
e-mail: Roisin.Cossar@umanitoba.ca
Phone: (204) 474-8885
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Toronto
M.A. University of Toronto
B.A.(Honours) McGill University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Religion and society; late medieval Italy; urban history; gender; archives.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2017.
“Defining Roles in the Clerical Household in Trecento Venice,” Viator, 45, 2, 2014, 237-254, doi: 10.1484/J.VIATOR.1.103919
“Portraits of Aging Men in late Medieval Italy,” The Gerontologist 2012, pp 1-8, doi: 10.1093/geront/gnr149
"Clerical 'Concubines' in Northern Italy," The Journal of Women's History, 23, 1, 2011, 111-132.
Shona Kelly Wray and Roisin Cossar, "The Medieval Will," in Joel Rosenthal, ed., Understanding Medieval Primary Sources: Using Historical Sources To Discover Medieval Europe. Routledge, 2011, 59-71.
"Notaries and Confraternities in Bergamo, 1300-1400" in A. Prosperi, N. Terpstra, S. Pastore (eds), Brotherhood and Boundaries/Fraternità e Barriere, Pisa: Edizione della Normale, 2011, pp. 69-85.
The Transformation of the Laity in Bergamo, 1265-c.1400, Leiden, The Netherlands: E.J. Brill Academic Publishers, 2006.
COURSES TAUGHT
2020-2021
HIST 2420 The Medieval World
HIST 3110 Medieval Women2019-2020
HIST 2420 The Medieval World
HIST 3138 Medieval Italy, 1300-1500
HIST 4040/7470 The Later Middle Ages2018-2019
HIST 2420 The Medieval World (winter term)
HIST 3110 Topics in History: Christian and Muslim Encounters in Medieval Europe2017-2018
HIST 1350 Introduction to Western Civilization to 1500
HIST 2420 The Medieval World
HIST 3110 Topics in History: Christian and Muslim Encounters in Medieval Europe2016-2017
HIST 2420 The Medieval World2015-2016
HIST 2420 The Medieval World
HIST 4000/7772 Topics: Premodern Things: Material History in History