Benedictine
University Center for Mission and Identity
Visiting Scholar in Catholic Thought Series
presents:
Dr.
Joan Greatrex
Medieval English monastic
and church historian specializing in Benedictine cathedral priories and their
manuscripts.
- BA(hons) University of Toronto, MA University
of Manitoba, PhD University of Ottawa (thesis supervised by University of
London, England)
- Lecturer at St John's College, University of
Manitoba in the early 1960s
- Assistant and associate professor of medieval
history St Patrick's College, University of Ottawa, and Carleton University,
Ottawa, in the late 1960s and 1970s (early retirement and move to England
in order to complete research projects.)
- With generous support from the British Academy,
the Leverhulme Trust and other foundations Dr. Greatrex has edited a number
of medieval documents and conference proceedings, produced a Biographical
Register of the English Cathedral Priories of the Province of Canterbury,
and is about to send off to the OUP a second volume, a sequel to the latter,
which will be entitled Rule and Practice in the English Benedictine Cathedral
Priories, 1270 - 1420.
- An oblate of Stanbrook Abbey since 1963.
