Olivia Remie Constable
Title
Professor; Director, Medieval Institute
Graduate Program Field
Medieval History
Specialization
Economic, Social, and Cultural history of the medieval Iberian Peninsula and Mediterranean World, especially contacts between Muslims and Christians
Education
BA from Yale University in 1983
PhD from Princeton University in 1989
Research and Teaching Interests
Interactions between medieval Christians, Muslims, and Jews; Mediterranean world; economic and social history; history of medieval cities and urban life; medieval Spain; perceptions of the middle ages in modern novels and film
Profile
Olivia Remie Constable is a professor of medieval history and the Robert M. Conway director of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame. She taught for six years at Columbia University, before moving to the University of Notre Dame in 1995. She has published Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula 900-1500 (Cambridge University Press, 1994), which won the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America; Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997); and Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2003). She is currently working on a new book project entitled Muslims in Medieval Europe, which looks at Muslim communities living under Christian rule in Spain and the western Mediterranean, from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries. This project has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. Remie Constable has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and was named a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2009.
Contact Information
Office: 715 Hesburgh Library
Phone: (574) 631-7591
Email: constable.1@nd.edu
Mailing Address:
219 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556