Daniel La Corte

Dr. LaCorte likes to see the interaction between culture and religion, institutions of governance and legal history, as well as explore the classical roots to our modern culture. He specializes in early and high medieval monastic culture and spirituality.

 

Education and Training

Fordham University, The Bronx, New York

The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

University of Dallas, Irving, Texas

 

Courses Taught

Early European Ideas
Medieval History
Medieval Britain, Renaissance and Reformation
Medieval Monasticism

 

Areas of Professional Interest

Intellectual Church History, Monasticism, Medieval Spirituality.

 

Recent Publications

Currently under contract with Paulist Press for The Age of Charlemagne: Carolingian Spirituality to be published in the Classics of Western Spirituality Series edited by Bernard McGinn, New Jersey: Paulist Press (Forthcoming).

"Aelred as Abbot: Twelfth Century Cistercian Abbatial Renewal," to be published in a collection of articles edited by Marsha L. Dutton, (Turnholt, Belgium: Brill Publications, Forthcoming.)

2007 "The Expositio and Monastic Reform at Cîteaux." Introduction to Commentary on the Rule of Saint Benedict. Translated by David Barry, ed. E. Rozanne Elder (Kalamazoo, Michigan, Cistercian Publications, 2007.

 

Professional Associations

Member of the novitiate formation team at New Melleray Abbey, Peosta, Iowa
Board of Directors, Cistercian Studies Quarterly