Visiting assistant professor
Phone: (239) 590-1245
E-Mail: meichbauer@fgcu.edu
Office: Module 1, Room 11

Visiting assistant professor, Medieval European history

Phone: (239) 590-1245
E-Mail: meichbauer@fgcu.edu
Office: Modular 1 - Office 11

Ph.D., History, The Catholic University of America, 2010

M.A., History, The Catholic University of America, 2004

M.A., Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 2000

B.A., History, Western Michigan University

Research and teaching interests: 

Medieval Europe; the Ius commune, canon law and Roman law; the Catholic Church and ecclesiology; crusades, heresy, witchcraft, and Inquisition; religious culture and lay piety; family and gender.

Courses offered:

EUH 2021       Medieval European History

EUH 3142       Renaissance and Reformation

HIS 3930        Barbarians and the End of Antiquity

HIS 4920        Roman Law in the Middle Ages

HIS 3930        Medieval Religious Culture

Recent and upcoming publications:

Edited with Kenneth Pennington, Law as Profession and Practice in Medieval Europe: Essays Dedicated to James Brundage (Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 2011). 

From Gratian’s Concordia discordantium canonum to Gratian’s Decretum: The Evolution from Teaching Text to Comprehensive Code of Canon Law (in progress).

“Roman Law and the Progressive Evolution of Gratian’s Decretum,” Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 29 (2011): forthcoming.

“Select Bibliography 2007-2009.”  Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 28 (2010): 153-168.

“St. Gall Stiftsbibliothek 673 and the Early Redactions of Gratian’s Decretum,” Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 27 (2007): 105-139.

“The Teaching of Marriage Law in the Early Twelfth Century” (in progress).

Recent and upcoming conference presentations:

“Oaths and Bonds of Obedience in the Canonical Jurisprudence of Gratian’s Decretum.”  Paper delivered at the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 11, 2007. 

“Gratian, Just War, and the Church: Causa 23, Questiones II & III of the Decretum.”  Paper delivered at the 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9, 2004.

Grants and awards:

Kürzung Stipendium from the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), June 2011.

Research Fellowship from the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1 April – 30 June 2009.

Research Grant to the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze from the School of Theology and Religious Studies, The Catholic University of America, Oct. 2007.

Travel Grant to the International School of the Ius commune (Erice, Sicily) from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2003.

Cecily Angleton Scholar for Post-Graduate Study in Medieval History, The Catholic University of America, 2001-2003.

Link to CV