Corinne Wieben - creator & host

Corinne studies marriage, masculinity, sexuality, violence, and law in medieval and renaissance Italy and is a Professor of History and the Robert O. Schulze Chair of Honors and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Northern Colorado. She holds a B.A. (2001) in Medieval Studies from the University of California, Davis, and completed an M.A. (2004) and Ph.D. (2010) in History with a Medieval Studies emphasis at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Corinne has received grants and fellowships from Fulbright, the Medieval Academy of America, and the Renaissance Society of America. In 2019, she won the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association’s Delno C. West Award. Her recent publications include an article on the use of judicial torture against a monk in medieval Lucca, an article on priests and women accused of using magic to seduce married people, and essays on competing models of clerical and lay masculinity in the courts of medieval Lucca in Rivalrous Masculinities: New Directions in Medieval Gender Studies, edited by Ann Marie Rasmussen (Notre Dame, 2019) and on the cult of the Tuscan recluse-saint Verdiana da Castelfiorentino in Languages of Power in Italy (1300-1600), edited by Daniel Bornstein, Laura Gaffuri, and Brian Maxson (Brepols, 2017). Corinne has also published articles on domestic violence in late medieval Lucca and young men’s claims of forced consent in medieval Lucchese marriage disputes.

When she is not writing or podcasting, you can usually find her near water. For more on Corinne’s work, click here.