Courses Taught
Women and Religion in Medieval Europe, Renaissance Florence and Venice, Christianity in Medieval Europe, Saints and Society

Research Interests
Religious life in late-medieval and Renaissance Italy, varieties of
religious practice, the role of women in Catholic institutions, and,
more broadly, on religion and civic culture

Publications
“Priests and Their Families in Medieval Italy” [in Chinese], Shi jie li shi [World History] (2007, no. 3): 51-59

“St. Birgitta in Roma Sancta: A Swedish Princess as Roman Saint?” Birgittiana 17 (2004): 49-58
“History and Culture in a Provincial Centre: A Universal Chronicle from Renaissance Rimini,” Renaissance Studies 19 (2005): 143-149

Bartolomea Riccoboni, Life and Death in a Venetian Convent: The Chronicle and Necrology of Corpus Domini, 1395-1436, ed. and trans. Daniel Bornstein (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000)

The Bianchi of 1399: Popular Devotion in Late Medieval Italy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993)

Dino Compagni’s Chronicle of Florence, translated with introduction and notes by Daniel E. Bornstein (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986)