JOHN B. WICKSTROM
CURRICULUM VITAE (1990-present)
Education
Ph.D. Yale University, 1969
M.A. Yale University, 1964
B.A. Michigan State University (magna cum laude), 1962
Institutional Affiliations
Adjunct Faculty: The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, 2009Adjunct Professor of History: Western Michigan University, 2009Professor Emeritus: Kalamazoo College, 2009Professor, Kalamazoo College 1985-2009
Publications
Books:
The Life of Blessed Maurus, first disciple of St. Benedict: translation and historical commentary,
Cistercian Publications/The Liturgical Press, Dec 2008.
Articles:
“The provenance of an antiphoner (Ms. Paris BNF lat. 12584) reconsidered: from Fossés to Glanfeuil”.
Submitted to Scriptorium, January 2014.
“Claiming St. Maurus of Glanfeuil: an eleventh-century sermon from Fossés,” Revue bénédictine vol.
123/2, December, 2013, 274-290.
“Late Carolingian Monastic Reform and the Lay Nobility: the case of Glanfeuil Abbey,” Cistercian
Studies Quarterly vol. 46/1, January, 2011 3-12.
“Cluny, Cîteaux and Blessed Maurus of Glanfeuil,”
Revue bénédictine, Tome 113, juin 2003, 124-34.
“Carthusians” and "Divine Office,”
The Encyclopedia of Monasticism (Fitzroy, Dearborn: London, 2000).
“Pope Gregory’s Life of Benedict and the Illustrations of Abbot Desiderius of Monte Cassino,”
Studies in Iconography 18 (1998), pp. 34-78.
“St. Maurus of Glanfeuil: Text and Image in the Making of a Holy Man”,
Studies in Iconography 14 (1994). pp. 53-85.
"The Humiliati: liturgy and identity,"
Archivum Fratres Praedicatorum, 1992:4. pp. 1-32.
"The Antiphons ad psalmos of Carthusian Lauds,"
Analecta Cartusiana 116:1. (1988), 7-33
In preparation: The Cult of St. Maurus of Glanfeuil: 830-1150. (Book length MS)
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Selected book reviews:
Carmelite Liturgy and Spiritual Identity, The Medieval Review (January, 2010)
International Mobility in the Military Orders, The Historian, v 70. no. 2 (Summer, 2008)
Monastic Rules’, The Medieval Review, July, 1998
Aspects of Carthusian Religious Practices Church History, Dec. 1997
A Brotherhood of Canons Seeking God, Church History, July 1997
The Winchcombe Sacramentary, Church History, December 1996
Johannes Klenkok: A Friar's Life, Church History, March 1996
Fifteenth-century Carthusian reform, Speculum, Jan 95
Church and chronicle in the Middle Ages, The Catholic Historical Review, Jan 93
Art and politics in late medieval and early Renaissance Italy, Church History Dec 92
Conference Papers and Invited Lectures
2012: The Death and Rebirth of Glanfeuil Abbey: 868-1096, International Congress on Medieval Studies,
(May 12th)
2012: Picturing the Saints: What Medieval Illuminations Can Tell us About History, 23rd Annual
Moritz Lecture in History, Kalamazoo College (April 4th)
2011: The cult of St. Maurus at Fossés abbey: the Sermo translationis s. Mauri International Congress
on Medieval Studies
2009: Monastic Spirituality in Carolingian hagiography: Odo of Glanfeuil's Life of St. Maurus
Cistercian Studies Conference, May, 2008
2005 An Illustrated Life of St. Maurus from Fossés (Troyes, MS 2667), International Congress on
Medieval Studies
2002: Saint Placid of Monte Cassino: the invention of a saint, 37th International Congress on Medieval
Studies
2001: Blessed Maurus: from Oblate to Holy Man, 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies
2000: The Blessed Maurus, Cluny and Cîteaux, 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies.
1999: How to Make a Useable Saint, Honors Day Lecture, Kalamazoo College.
1996: The Codex Benedictus: Lecture: The Medieval Institute: WMU.
1993: Gregory the Great’s Life of St. Benedict and the Illustrations of Vat. lat. 1202.
28th International Congress on Medieval Studies.
Honors and Professional Associations
Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Achievement 2012
Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor 2008
Honorary Member of Delta Chapter; Phi Beta Kappa 2003
Lucasse Award for Distinguished Teaching 1982
Medieval Academy of America
Medieval Association of the Midwest
Hagiography Society of America
S. W. Michigan Chapter of Φ B K (President, 2010-)