Joëlle Rollo-Koster
# Joëlle Rollo-Koster

Joëlle Rollo-Koster is a Professor of Medieval History in the University of Rhode Island's History Department. On December 6, 2016, she was knighted by the French government with the medal of Chevalier des Palmes académiques. In 2017-2018 she was a EURIAS Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study.

## Education

Joëlle Rollo-Koster received her undergraduate degree and master's degree in history from the University of Nice, France. She earned a PhD in History at SUNY Binghamton in 1992 where she was a student of Richard Trexler.

## Selected publications

### As author

* Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great Western Schism (1378), 2008, Brill, ISBN 9789047433118
* The People of Curial Avignon: A Critical Edition of the Liber Divisionis and the Matriculae of Notre Dame la Majour, 2009, Edwin Mellen Press, ISBN 077344680X
* Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309–1417: Popes, Institutions, and Society, 2015, Rowman and Littlefield, ISBN 9781442215320
* The Great Western Schism, 1378–1417: Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity, 2022, CUP, ISBN 9781107168947

### As editor

* Medieval and Early Modern Ritual: Formalized Behavior in Europe, China and Japan, 2002, Brill, ISBN 9789004117495
* (Co-edited, with Thomas M. Izbicki) A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378-1417), 2009, Brill, ISBN 9789004162778
* (Co-edited, with Kathryn Reyerson) For the Salvation of my Soul: Women and Wills in Medieval and Early Modern France, 2012, Centre for French History and Culture of the University of St Andrews, ISBN 9781907548086
* Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed, Routledge, 2016, ISBN 9781138802131

## Recognition

* 2008 Adèle Mellen Prize for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship
* 2016 The medal of Chevalier des Palmes académiques
* 2018 URI: Recipient URI Foundation, Scholarly Excellence Award
