Scholarship and Publications
Books – Monographs, single authored
Vexilla Regis Glorie: Relics and Liturgy at the Sainte Chapelle in the Thirteenth Century. Sources d’histoire médiévale 46, Paris: CNRS/Institute de recherche et d’histoire des textes, 2022. CNRS webiste. Download introduction here.
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Invisible Weapons: Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017. Paperback issued in 2021.
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Blessed Louis, Most Glorious of Kings: Texts relating to the Cult of Louis IX of France. (Translations with Phyllis B. Katz). Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture. University of Notre Dame Press, 2012.
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The Making of Saint Louis: Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middles Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. Paperback issued 2010.
Books – Edited collections and Translations
With Larry Field and Sean Field. Rigord Deeds of Philip Augustus. Translated by Larry Field. Edited and Introduced by Sean Field and Cecilia Gaposchkin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022.
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With Jay Rubenstein, eds. Political Ritual and Practice in Capetian France: Studies in honor of Elizabeth A.R. Brown. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
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With Iris Shagrir, eds., Liturgy and Devotion in the Crusader States. London: Routledge, 2019. (=JMH 43.4, as below)
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With Larry Field and Sean Field. The Sanctity of Louis IX: Early Lives of Saint Louis by Geoffrey of Beaulieu and William of Chartres. Translated by Larry F. Field. Edited and introduced by Sean L. Field and Cecilia Gaposchkin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014.
Special Journal Issue, Editor
Curated and edited with Iris Shagrir: “Liturgy in the Holy Land: Ritual, Ideology, and Devotion in the Crusader States.” Journal of Medieval History 43/4 (2017). 8 essays and our introduction.
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Journals Articles
“St.-Denis, the Capetians, Religion, and Political Culture.” Journal of Medieval History 50 (2025), 452-465. Local download here.
“Notre Dame of Paris, Ansel’s True Cross of 1120, and the Power of Relic Narratives.” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 76 (2025), 723-759. Local download here.
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“La couronne d’épines et le royaume de France." Réforme, Humanisme, Renaissance 97 (2023), 29-67. Local download here.
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“Louis IX and the Triumphal Cross of Constantine.” French Historical Studies 46/1 (2023), 3-35.
“The most Christian King: The World of Louis IX.” Medieval World: Culture and Conflict 6 (2023), 16-23. Local download here.
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Nivelon of Quierzy, the Cathedral of Soissons, and the relics of 1205: Liturgy and Devotion in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade, Speculum 95/4 (2020), pp. 1087-1129. Local download (including online appendixes) here.
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“Between Historical Narration and Liturgical Celebrations: Gautier Cornut and the Reception of the Crown of Thorns in France,” Revue Mabillon n.s. 30 (=v. 91) (2019), 90-145. Local download here.
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“The Pre-battle Processions of the First Crusade and the Creation of Militant Christian Communitas.” Material Religion 14 (2018), 1-15. Local download here.
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With Iris Shagrir. “Introduction.” In special journal issue on Liturgy in the Holy Land. Journal of Medieval History 43 (2017), 359-366. Local download here.
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“The Feast of the Liberation of Jerusalem in British Library Additional ms. 8927 Reconsidered.” Mediaeval Studies 77 (2015), 127-181. Local download here.
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With Sean L. Field. “Questioning the Capetians, 1180-1328.” History Compass 12/7 (2014), 657-585. Local download here.
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“The Echoes of Victory: Liturgical and Paraliturgical Commemoration of the Capture of Jerusalem in the West.” Journal of Medieval History 40 (2014), 1-23. Local download here.
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“Louis IX in Captivity.” Questiones Medii Aevi Novae 18 (2013), 85-114. Local download here.
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“From Pilgrimage to Crusade: The Liturgy of Departure, 1095-1300.” Speculum 88 (2013), 44-91. Local download here.
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“The Role of Jerusalem in Western Crusading Rites of Departure (1095-1300).” Catholic Historical Review 99 (2013), 1-28. Local download here.
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“Origins and Development of the Pilgrimage and Cross Blessings in the Roman Pontificals of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (RP12 and RP13).” Mediaeval Studies 73 (2011), 261-286. Local download here.
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“Place, Status, and Experience in the Miracles of Saint Louis.” Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes; Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies 19 (2010), 249-266. Local download here.
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“The Monastic Office for Louis IX of France: Lauda Celestis Regio.” Revue Mabillon n.s. 20 (=v. 81) (2009), 143-174. Local download here.
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“Saint Louis et la mémoire liturgique.” Revue d'histoire de l'Église de France 94, no. 233 (2009), 23-34. Local download here.
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“Louis IX, Crusade, and the Promise of Joshua in the Holy Land.” Journal of Medieval History 34 (2008), 245-274. Local download here.
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“Philip the Fair, the Dominicans, and the Liturgical Office of Louis IX: New Perspectives on Ludovicus Decus Regnantium.” Plainsong and Medieval Music 13 (2004), 33-61. Local download here.
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“Boniface VIII, Philip the Fair, and the Sanctity of Louis IX.” Journal of Medieval History 29 (2003), 1-26. Local download here.
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“Ludovicus Decus Regnantium: The Liturgical Office for Saint Louis and the Ideological Program of Philip the Fair.” Majestas 10 (2002), 27-90. Local download here.
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“The King of France and the Queen of Heaven: The Iconography of the Porte Rouge at Notre-Dame of Paris.” Gesta 39 (2000), 58-72. Local download here.
Contributions to edited volumes
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“Bonaventure’s Officium sancte crucis.” Bonaventura autore spirituale, ed. by Guida, Marco and Daniele Solvi. Florence: Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2024 : 139-156. Local download here.
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“Un champ de recherche inexploité par Jacques Le Goff : le culte de saint Louis.” Saint Louis après Le Goff. Nouveaux regards sur le roi et son gouvernement. Edited by Marie Dejoux, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2025, 87-100. Local download here.
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“Pilgrimage and the Liturgy.” A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage. Edited by Andrew Jotischky and William Purkis, Medieval Institute Publication (inc. Arc Humanities Press), 2024, 89-112. Local download here.
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“Christian Crusading, Ritual, and Liturgy.” Cambridge Companion to Religion and War. Edited by Margo Kitts. Cambridge University Press, 2023, 385-401. Local download here.
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“Liturgy and Kingship at the Sainte Chapelle.” Political Liturgies in the European Middle Ages: Beyond the legacy of Ernst H. Kantorowicz. Edited by Joanna Dale, Pawel Figurski, and Pieter Byttebier. Turhout: Brepols, 2022, 277-295. Local download here.
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“Louis IX, Heraclius, and the True Cross at the Sainte Chapelle.” Political ritual and practice in Capetian France.” Edited Jay Rubenstein and Cecilia Gaposchkin, (see above) 265-299. Local download here.
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“Sacralizing the journey: Liturgies of travel and pilgrimage before the Crusades.” Travel and Social Interaction in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Edited by Jenni Kuuliala and Jussi Rantala. London: Routledge, 2020, 205-225. Local download here.
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“Kingship and Crusade in the First Four Moralized Bibles.” The Capetian Century, 1214 to 1314 (CELAMA 22). Edited by William Chester Jordan and Jenna Phillips. Turnout: Brepols, 2017, 71-112. Local download here.
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“The Liturgical Memory of 15 July 1099: Between History, Memory, and Eschatology.” Remembering the Crusades and Crusading. Edited by Megan Cassidy-Welch. London: Routledge, 2017, 34-48. Local download here.
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“Talking about Kingship when Preaching about Saint Louis.” Preaching and Political Society: from Late Antiquity to the End of the Middle Ages (Depuis l’Antiquité tardive jusqu’à la fin du Moyen Âge). Edited by Franco Morenzoni. Sermo: Studies on Patristic, Medieval, and Reformation Sermons and Preaching 10. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013, 135-172. Local download here.
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“Louis IX and Liturgical Memory.” Memory in Medieval France. Edited by Elma Brenner, Meredith Cohen, Mary Franklin-Brown. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013, 261-276. Local download here.
“The Role of the Crusades in the Sanctification of Louis IX of France.” Crusades: Medieval Worlds in Conflict. Edited by Thomas Madden. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010, 195-209. Local download here.
“Political Ideas in Liturgical Offices for Saint Louis.” Political Plainchant? Music, Text and Historical Context of Medieval Saints’ Offices. Edited by Roman Hankeln. 2009, 59-80. Local download here.
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“Portals, Pilgrimage, Processions and Piety: Saints Firmin and Honoré at Amiens.” Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles. Edited by Rita Tepikke and Sarah Blick. Leiden, Brill, 2005, 218-242. Local download here.
