Giles Constable

Giles Constable

Constable was born in London, the son of the art historian William George Constable and Olivia Roberts. He received his A.B. at Harvard University in 1950 and his Ph.D. at the same school in 1957.

Career

Constable taught at the

A vigorous explorer of medieval religious and intellectual history, Constable was the author or editor of more than twenty books on medieval religious and intellectual history. His most influential works, centered around the religious and cultural history of the twelfth century, illuminated the origins of monastic tithes, Peter the Venerable, the people and power of Byzantium, medieval religious and social thought, the reformation of the twelfth century, twelfth-century crusading, and the history of Cluny.[3]

He died in Princeton, aged 91.

Honours

Constable was a Fellow of the

• The Abbey of Cluny : A Collection of Essays to Mark the Eleven-Hundredth Anniversary Of Its Foundation (2010),
  ISBN 3643107773
• Three Treatises from Bec on the Nature of Monastic Life (2008),
  ISBN 1442689420
• The Rothschilds and the Gold Rush: Benjamin Davidson and Heinrich Schliemann in California, 1851-52 (2005),
  ISBN 9781606180549
• Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence: The Case of Antonio Rinaldeschi, co-auth.
  ISBN 9780772720405
• Cluny from The Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries : Further Studies (2000),
  ISBN 0860788156
• The Reformation of the Twelfth Century (1996),
  ISBN 0521305144
• Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought (1995),
  ISBN 0585039704
• Monks, Hermits, and Crusaders in Medieval Europe (1988),
  ISBN 0860782212
• Culture and Spirituality in Medieval Europe (1988),
  ISBN 0860786099
• Medieval Monasticism : A Select Bibliography (1976),
  ISBN 0802022006
• Letters and Letter-Collections (1976), OCLC 4641316
• The Letters of Peter the Venerable (1967), OCLC 6710086
• Monastic Tithes : From Their Origins to the Twelfth Century (1964), OCLC 21932950

External links

• Home page of Giles Constable at the Institute for Advanced Study
• Curriculum vitae of Giles Constable at the Institute for Advanced Study