Joëlle Rollo-Koster

Joëlle Rollo-Koster is a French medievalist working as a professor of medieval history at the University of Rhode Island.

Life Joëlle Rollo-Koster received her undergraduate degree and master's degree in history from the University of Nice, France. She earned a Ph.D. in history at SUNY Binghamton in 1992 where she was a student of Richard Trexler.

On December 6, 2016, she was knighted by the French government with the medal of Chevalier des Palmes académiques. In 2017-2018 she was a EURIAS Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. In 2024, she was elected a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.

Selected publications As author Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great Western Schism (1378), 2008, Brill, The People of Curial Avignon: A Critical Edition of the Liber Divisionis and the Matriculae of Notre Dame la Majour, 2009, Edwin Mellen Press, Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309–1417: Popes, Institutions, and Society, 2015, Rowman and Littlefield, The Great Western Schism, 1378–1417: Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity, 2022, CUP,

As editor Medieval and Early Modern Ritual: Formalized Behavior in Europe, China and Japan, 2002, Brill, (Co-edited, with Thomas M. Izbicki) A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378-1417), 2009, Brill, (Co-edited, with Kathryn Reyerson) For the Salvation of my Soul: Women and Wills in Medieval and Early Modern France, 2012, Centre for French History and Culture of the University of St Andrews, Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed, Routledge, 2016, (Co-edited, with Robert A. Ventresca, Melodie H. Eichbauer, and Miles Pattenden) The Cambridge History of the Papacy, volume 1: The Two Swords, 2025, Cambridge UP, (Co-edited, with Robert A. Ventresca, Melodie H. Eichbauer, and Miles Pattenden) The Cambridge History of the Papacy, volume 2: The Governance of the Church, 2025, Cambridge UP, (Co-edited, with Robert A. Ventresca, Melodie H. Eichbauer, and Miles Pattenden) The Cambridge History of the Papacy III: volume 3: Civil Society, 2025, Cambridge UP

Recognition

2008 Adèle Mellen Prize for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship 2016 The medal of Chevalier des Palmes académiques 2018 URI: Recipient URI Foundation, Scholarly Excellence Award