Carolyn Muessig

Carolyn Anne Muessig is Professor of Medieval Religion at the University of Bristol. A graduate of Fulton-Montgomery Community College, State University of New York at Buffalo, University of Toronto, the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, and the Université de Montréal, Muessig is a specialist in the history of medieval preaching, Jacques de Vitry, Francis of Assisi, Catherine of Siena and female educators of the Middle Ages. She was co-editor (with Veronica O'Mara) of Medieval Sermon Studies for 17 years and since 2001 she has been series co-editor with George Ferzoco of Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture.

Selected publications

• The Faces of Women in the Sermons of Jacques de Vitry. Toronto: Peregrina, 1999. ISBN 092066959X; ISBN 9780920669594
• Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages. Co-edited with Ad Putter. Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture, 6. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. ISBN 0415383838 (hbk.); ISBN 020396621X (ebk.); ISBN 9780415383837; ISBN 9780203966211
• A Companion to Catherine of Siena. Co-editor with George Ferzoco and Beverly Mayne Kienzle. Brill's companions to the Christian tradition (ISSN 1871-6377) v. 32. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. xvi, 395 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. ISBN 9789004205550 (hardback : alk. paper); ISBN 9004205551 (hardback : alk. paper)