Constance Hoffman Berman

Constance Hoffman Berman (born August 17, 1948) is an American medievalist. A 2004 Guggenheim Fellow, she has authored and edited several books, including Medieval Agriculture, the Southern French Countryside, and the Early Cistercians, The Cistercian Evolution (2000), Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe (2002), Medieval Religion: New Approaches (2006), and Sacred Communities, Shared Devotions (2014). She is a professor emeritus of the University of Iowa. Biography Constance Hoffman Berman was born on August 17, 1948, in Canton, Ohio.

After working as an adjunct assistant professor of history at the Catholic University of America (1981-1983) and as a visiting assistant professor of history in Georgetown University (1983-1984) and Bard College (1984-1985), she joined the University of Iowa in 1988 as an assistant professor of history. she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for "a study of women's work and European economic expansion, 1050-1250". Medieval Agriculture, the Southern French Countryside, and the Early Cistercians: A Study of Forty-three Monasteries (1986) The Cistercian Evolution: The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe (2000) (ed.) Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe: Sisters and Patrons of the Cistercian Reform (2002) (ed.) Medieval Religion: New Approaches (2006) (ed. with Alison Beach and Lisa M. Bitel; written by June L. Mecham) Sacred Communities, Shared Devotions: Gender, Material Culture, and Monasticism in Late Medieval Germany (2014)