Dyan Elliott

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{{Infobox academic

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1954}}

| alma_mater = University of Toronto

| occupation = Historian

| discipline = Medieval studies

| sub_discipline = Women in the medieval church

| workplaces = Northwestern University

}}

Dyan Elliott (born 1954) is a medievalist historian and scholar, whose focus of academic research is "gender, sexuality, spirituality, and the ongoing tensions between orthodoxy and religious dissent".{{Cite web|website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|title=Dyan Elliott|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/dyan-elliott/|access-date=October 17, 2024}} Elliott is the Peter B. Ritzma professor of history at Northwestern University, where she teaches the medieval period.{{Cite web|website=Northwestern University|title=Dyan Elliott: Department of History|url=https://history.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/dyan-elliott.html|access-date=September 20, 2024}}

Life

Elliott was born in 1954 and was raised Anglican by a very religious mother, attending mass at least three times a week.{{Cite journal|first=Dyan |last=Elliott|title=Historical Faith/Historian's Faith|journal=Religion & Literature|volume=42|year=2010|issue=1/2 |pages=247–252|jstor=23049479 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23049479|access-date= September 20, 2024}} Although she is no longer religious, she has credited her religious upbringing for sparking her interest in church history.

She received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 1989.

Dyan Elliott’s research about "gender, sexuality, spirituality" adds levels of evaluation and understanding regarding church history, and those who were affected negatively and positively by its hierarchy and authority figures. Her work has won her several prestigious awards and fellowships in her field.

Elliott's 2020 book, The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy, explores sexual abuse in the medieval church.{{Cite web |last=Doyle |first=Thomas P. |date=2020-10-10 |title=New book examines clergy sexual abuse — in the wide lens of history |url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/book-reviews/new-book-examines-clergy-sexual-abuse-wide-lens-history |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=www.ncronline.org |language=en}} In 2024, Elliott spoke on "sexual abuse by clergy in the Middle Ages" at the Pontifical Gregorian University's conference "The Memory of Power and Abuse of Power".{{Cite web |date=2024-04-21 |title=Experts at Rome conference delve into historical abuses of power |url=https://catholicreview.org/experts-at-rome-conference-delve-into-historical-abuses-of-power/ |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=Catholic Review |language=en-US}}

In addition to several academic books, Elliott has also written a historical novel, A Hole in the Heavens (2017).{{Cite web |title=Dyan Elliott (NHC Fellow, 1997–98; 2012–13) |url=https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellow/dyan-elliott-1997-1998/ |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=National Humanities Center |language=en-US}}

Awards

Source

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Research Fellowship, 2021
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 2020
ACLS Fellowship, September 2016- September 2017
National Humanities Center Fellowship, 1997-1998; 2012-2013
Elected fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, March 2010

Publications

= Books =

Source

Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1992){{Cite journal |last=Olsen |first=Glenn W. |date=Summer 1995 |title=Marriage, Feminism, Theology, and the New Social History: Dyan Elliott's Spiritual Marriage |url=https://www.communio-icr.com/articles/view/marriage-feminism-theology-and-the-new-social-history-dyan-elliotts-spiritu |journal=Communio}}{{Cite journal |last=Weston |first=L. M. C. |date=1994-10-01 |title=Elliott, Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock |url=https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/14268/20386 |journal=The Medieval Review |language=en |issn=1096-746X}}{{Cite journal |last=Underhill |first=Frances A. |date=1996 |title=Review of Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3170513 |journal=Church History |volume=65 |issue=1 |pages=83–84 |doi=10.2307/3170513 |jstor=3170513 |issn=0009-6407|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=McLaughlin |first=Megan |date=1995 |title=Review of Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock; The Bridling of Desire: Views of Sex in the Later Middle Ages |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3704440 |journal=Journal of the History of Sexuality |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=118–121 |jstor=3704440 |issn=1043-4070}}{{Cite journal |last=Brooke |first=C. N. L. |date=1996 |title=Review of Spiritual Marriage. Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/576530 |journal=The English Historical Review |volume=111 |issue=441 |pages=411–412 |doi=10.1093/ehr/CXI.441.411-b |jstor=576530 |issn=0013-8266|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Blamires |first=Alcuin |date=1995 |title=Review of Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43629680 |journal=Medium Ævum |volume=64 |issue=1 |pages=110–111 |doi=10.2307/43629680 |jstor=43629680 |issn=0025-8385|url-access=subscription }}
Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999){{Cite journal |last=Park |first=Katharine |date=2000 |title=Review of Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3169334 |journal=Church History |volume=69 |issue=4 |pages=860–866 |doi=10.2307/3169334 |jstor=3169334 |issn=0009-6407|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Payer |first=Pierre J. |date=1999 |title=Review of Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25025544 |journal=The Catholic Historical Review |volume=85 |issue=3 |pages=444–445 |jstor=25025544 |issn=0008-8080}}{{Cite journal |last=Evans |first=Ruth |date=2000 |title=Review of Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages, The Middle Ages Series |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43630291 |journal=Medium Ævum |volume=69 |issue=2 |pages=293–294 |doi=10.2307/43630291 |jstor=43630291 |issn=0025-8385|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Newman |first=Barbara |date=2000 |title=Review of Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2887598 |journal=Speculum |volume=75 |issue=2 |pages=454–456 |doi=10.2307/2887598 |jstor=2887598 |issn=0038-7134|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Brown |first=Judith C. |date=2000 |title=Review of Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality and Demonology in the Middle Ages |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2652146 |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=105 |issue=5 |pages=1788–1789 |doi=10.2307/2652146 |jstor=2652146 |issn=0002-8762|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Kuefler |first=Mathew |date=2000 |title=Review of Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3704640 |journal=Journal of the History of Sexuality |volume=9 |issue=1/2 |pages=185–190 |jstor=3704640 |issn=1043-4070}}{{Cite journal |last=Farmer |first=Sharon |date=2001 |title=Review of Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4286788 |journal=Social History |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=259–260 |jstor=4286788 |issn=0307-1022}}
Proving Woman: Female Mysticism and Inquisitional Practice in Late Medieval Europe (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2004)Gábor Klaniczay, review of Proving Woman: Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages, 181-182, by Dyan Elliott. Speculum 82, no. 1 (2007). JSTOR.
Winner of the 2006 Otto Gründler Award for outstanding contribution to medieval studies, Western Michigan University{{Cite web |title=Medieval historian first to be honored for second time with prestigious Medieval Institute book prize {{!}} Western Michigan University |url=https://wmich.edu/news/2022/05/68097 |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=wmich.edu |language=en}}
The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012){{Cite journal |last=Newman |first=Barbara |date=2012-06-01 |title=Elliott, The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell |url=https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/17597/23715 |journal=The Medieval Review |language=en |issn=1096-746X}}{{Cite journal |last=Bailey |first=M. D. |date=2013-02-01 |title=DYAN ELLIOTT. The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500. |url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/ahr/118.1.236 |journal=The American Historical Review |language=en |volume=118 |issue=1 |pages=236–237 |doi=10.1093/ahr/118.1.236 |issn=0002-8762|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Dreyer |first=Elizabeth A. |date=2012 |title=Review of The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500. [The Middle Ages Series] |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23565423 |journal=The Catholic Historical Review |volume=98 |issue=4 |pages=767–769 |jstor=23565423 |issn=0008-8080}}{{Cite journal |last=Griffiths |first=Fiona J. |date=2013 |title=Review of The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200–1500. The Middle Ages Series |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24533043 |journal=Church History |volume=82 |issue=4 |pages=947–949 |doi=10.1017/S0009640713001224 |jstor=24533043 |issn=0009-6407|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Clark |first=Anne L. |date=2013 |title=Review of The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200–1500, Elliott, Dyan |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/672219 |journal=The Journal of Religion |volume=93 |issue=3 |pages=382–384 |doi=10.1086/672219 |jstor=10.1086/672219 |issn=0022-4189|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=McLaughlin |first=Megan |date=2015 |title=Review of The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500. (Middle Ages Series) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43577459 |journal=Speculum |volume=90 |issue=3 |pages=801–802 |doi=10.1017/S0038713415001311 |jstor=43577459 |issn=0038-7134|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Dickason |first=Kathryn |date=2013 |title=Review of The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43049691 |journal=Anglican and Episcopal History |volume=82 |issue=4 |pages=477–479 |jstor=43049691 |issn=0896-8039}}
The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020){{Cite journal |last=Kuefler |first=Mathew |date=2021-11-10 |title=Elliott, The Corrupter of Boys |url=https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/33564/37111 |journal=The Medieval Review |language=en |issn=1096-746X}}{{Cite journal |last=Griffiths |first=Fiona |date=April 2023 |title=Dyan Elliott, The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/724260 |journal=Speculum |volume=98 |issue=2 |pages=590–592 |doi=10.1086/724260 |issn=0038-7134|url-access=subscription }}
Winner of the 2022 Otto Gründler Book Prize, Western Michigan University

= Articles and chapters =

{{Cite journal |last=Elliott |first=Dyan |date=January 1991 |title=Dress as Mediator between Inner and Outer Self: The Pious Matron of the High and Later Middle Ages |url=https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/J.MS.2.306389 |journal=Mediaeval Studies |volume=53 |pages=279–308 |doi=10.1484/J.MS.2.306389 |issn=0076-5872|url-access=subscription }}
{{Cite journal |last=Elliott |first=Dyan |date=2002 |title=Seeing Double: John Gerson, the Discernment of Spirits, and Joan of Arc |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/532095 |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=107 |issue=1 |pages=26–54 |doi=10.1086/532095 |jstor=10.1086/532095 |issn=0002-8762|url-access=subscription }}
{{Cite book|last=Elliott |first=Dyan|chapter=Marriage|editor-last1=Dinshaw |editor-first1=C|editor-last2=Wallace|editor-first2=D |title=The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing|series=Cambridge Companions to Literature|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2003|pages=40–57}}
{{Cite journal |last=Elliott |first=Dyan |date=2008 |title=The Three Ages of Joan Scott |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30223448 |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=113 |issue=5 |pages=1390–1403 |doi=10.1086/ahr.113.5.1390 |jstor=30223448 |issn=0002-8762}}
{{Cite journal|first=Dyan |last=Elliott|title=Historical Faith/Historian's Faith|journal=Religion & Literature|volume=42|year=2010|issue=1/2 |pages=247–252|jstor=23049479 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23049479|access-date= September 20, 2024}}
{{Cite book |chapter=Gender and The Christian Traditions|title=The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe|url=https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/34370/chapter/291500888 |access-date=2024-12-08|date=2013 |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199582174.013.011 |editor-last1=Bennett |editor-last2=Karras |editor-first1=Judith |editor-first2=Ruth |last1=Elliott |first1=Dyan |series=Oxford Handbooks|publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-958217-4 }}
{{Cite journal |last=Elliott |first=Dyan |date=2017 |title=Violence against the Dead: The Negative Translation and damnatio memoriae in the Middle Ages |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26583618 |journal=Speculum |volume=92 |issue=4 |pages=1020–1055 |doi=10.1086/693377 |jstor=26583618 |issn=0038-7134|url-access=subscription }}