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Personal History

Clare Monagle is a graduate of Monash and the Johns Hopkins Universities. She received her PhD in 2007. She is broadly interested in history of intellectuals in the Middle Ages, as well as the histories of the institutions that housed them. Her work is also concerned with the "medievalism" of twentieth and twenty-first century thought, that is, the uses to which the concept of the medieval is put within definitions of modernity and progress.

She has taught extensively in Australia and the United States, offering courses on medieval and modern apocalypticism, medieval conceptions of sovereignty, and Christian constructions of Judaism in the Middle Ages. In her teaching, as in her research, she has a particular interest in historicising ideas while also theorising the making of history.

Also Clare has made a radio program for Encounter on Radio National, titled “Politics and God”, you can hear it here www.abc.net.au/rn/encounter/stories/2009/2617794.htm

Current Research

Clare is currently working on her first book, which will follow the debates over Peter Lombard's Christology in the twelfth century. She has recently completed an article on the political theology of Carl Schmitt and the ideological work to which he puts his concept of the medieval church.

Major Publications

Publications
Christological Nihilism in the Twelfth Century, under contract with Brepols and expected in late 2010.
'A Sovereign Act of Negation: Political Theology and its Medieval Other', accepted by Culture, Theory, Critique, anticipated in 2010.
With Constant Mews, "Peter Lombard, Joachim of Fiore, and the Fourth Lateran Council", in Medioevo, forthcoming in 2010.
'The Trial of Ideas: Two Tellings of the Trial of Gilbert of Poitiers',Viator, vol. 35, 2004, pp. 113-29
'Contested Knowledges: John of Salisbury's Metalogicon and Historia Pontificalis', Parergon, vol. 21, 2004, pp. 1-17

Essay Reviews
Review Essay on "Bruce Holsinger's book The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory", in postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, 1, 2010.

Areas of Research & Supervision

Religion and society in the medieval and renaissance periods.

Completed Theses
Nina Reicher, 'Petrarch and the Poetics of Ascesis.' (MA 2009)

Teaching

HSY1010 - Medieval Europe
HSY2/3085 - Witches and depravity in the medieval and early modern world