Curriculum vitae
Faith Wallis PhD (Toronto), FSA
Professor
Department of Historyand Classical Studies/Department of Social Studies of Medicine
McGill University
May 2018
(History & Classical Studies)(Social Studies of Medicine)
855, rue Sherbrooke ouest3655 rue Peel,
Montréal, Québec, CanadaMontréal, Québec, Canada
H2A 2T7H2A 1X1
(514) 398-4400 ext. 094203(514) 398-4400 ext. 094203
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy. Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto. 1985.
Dissertation: MS Oxford St John's College 17: a Medieval Manuscript in its Contexts. Supervisor: Leonard E. Boyle.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, 1978/79-1981/82
Licentiate in Mediaeval Studies. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto. 1981.
Dissertation: Giovanni Balbi of Genoa and the "Catholicon". Supervisor: Leonard E. Boyle.
Master of Library Science. McGill University. 1976.
Master of Arts. McGill University (Dept. of History). 1974.
Thesis: Structure and Philosophy in Mediaeval Encyclopaedias. Supervisor: C.C. Bayley.
Bachelor of Arts. McGill University. 1971. First Class Honours in History.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
History of medicine in western Europe in the Middle Ages, especially text transmission and reception, the medical book, medical education, medical concepts.
History of science in western Europe in the Middle Ages (especially computus i.e. calendar management; astronomy and cosmology; scientific diagrams)
the writings and influence of Bede (ca 675-735).
AREAS OF COMPETENCE
History of medicine and science in the pre-modern period (classical antiquity, early modern period)
History of medicine in Montreal and at McGill University (especially life and influence of William Osler)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Teaching positions and related academic posts
Associate Professor, Department of History and Classical Studies/Department of Social Studies of Medicine (joint appointment), McGill University. June 1992-present. Tenured 1998.
History of Medicine Librarian (as of November 1990, Osler Librarian), Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University. Concurrently Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) in the Departments of History, and of Social Studies of Medicine. March 1986-June 1992.
Assistant Professor (sabbatical replacement), Department of History, McGill University. September 1985-May 1986.
Assistant History of Medicine Librarian, Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University. January 1985-March 1986.
Archivist (part-time). McGill University Archives. 1983-1984.
Archivist-consultant. Office of the Director of Libraries, McGill University. 1982-1985.
Research Assistant to Prof. Walter Principe, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto. 1980.
Archivist. McGill University Archives. 1976-1978.
Editorial assistant. McGill University Thesis Directory. 1975-1976.
Teaching Assistant. Department of History, McGill University. 1972-1973.
Affiliations with other academic institutions
Affiliate, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 2017-
• Member, Board of Directors, Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Durham, Durham UK, 2010-present.
Affiliate, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, 2006-2011.
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
Invited Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. March 2018.
•Slater Visiting Fellow, University College/Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Durham University (U.K.), Easter term 2015.
•Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of London. Elected May 2013.
•H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching, Faculty of Arts, McGill University. 1997.
RESEARCH GRANTS
2017-2020: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant: "Master Bartholomaeus of Salerno (fl. ca 1150-1170): An Edition of his Major Medical Works." $65,923 ($21,334 + 24,942 + 19,637).
2016-2017. McGill University. Office of Vice-Principal (Research and International Relations) SSHRC Internal Research Grant. "Reason and Reckoning: Albums of Science in England: ca. 1000-ca. 1200." $6,000.
2008-2012.Fonds québecois de la recherche sur la société et la culture. Grant in support of an équipe universitaire en fonctionnment (with Robert Wisnovsky (Principal Investigator), Carlos Fraenkel, Jamie Fumo, Jamil Ragep and Sebastian Sobecki): "Transmission, translation and transformation in medieval cultures." 2008-2012. $338,725.
2006-2007 SSHRC Conference grant for Workshop on "Vehicles of Transmission, Translation and Transformation" (with Robert Wisnovsky, Jamie Fumo and Carlos Fraenkel) $23,000.
2006-2008. Fonds québecois de la recherche sur la société et la culture. Grant in support of an équipe en emergence (with Robert Wisnovsky, Carlos Fraenkel and Jamie Fumo): "Transmission, translation and transformation in medieval cultures." ($42,000)
•2004. Associated Medical Services. Hannah Development Grant. $7,185 for conference to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Osler Library entitled "Medical Books and Medical Libraries in Historical Perspective."
2004.McGill University, Digital Collections Programme. Tomlinson Digital Innovation Award ($15,000) to produce a hypertext commentary on MS Oxford, St John's College 17 (in partnership with Oxford University).
2006.McGill University. Office of Vice-Principal (Research and International Relations) SSHRC Internal Research Grant. ($4,500). Topping-up grant to complete The calendar and the cloister: a digitized facsimile edition of MS Oxford St John's 17, with hypertext commentary.
1999-2001. McGill University. Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research. Internal Research Grant. Research grant ($756) for a project entitled “Bede on the Apocalypse: A Translation with Introduction, Notes and Commentary.”
1998. McGill University. Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research. Internal Research Grant. Research grant ($1500) for a project entitled "Doctors and Patients in 15th Century Paris."
1994-2001. Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine. Grant in aid of research ($9,800+$4,285+2,850+$8200)) for a project entitled "The Articella and its commentaries in the 12th century."
1990-1992. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Research Grant ($41,725, of which $25,000 was release-time stipend) for a project entitled "A Historical Study of Medieval Time-Reckoning (Computus): its Content, Development and Cultural Context."
1988-1990. Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine. Grant in aid of research ($14,941) to prepare a census and study of medieval computus (i.e. time-reckoning) manuscripts containing medical materials.
McGill University. Office of Vice-Principal (Research and International Relations). Paper presentation grant (awarded several times).
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
2009-present International Collaborator: "The Ordered Universe" research group, University of Durham, UK (PI: Dr Giles Gasper). Funding: UK AHRC.
local organizer of the group's sumposium "Guiding Stars, Motion and Light": Robert Grosseteste's De motu supercelestium, De motu corporali et de luce and De sex differentiis, McGill University, 2-5 May 2018.
2015-: Collaborator, Science Education in Islam research group, McGill University (PIs Jamil Ragep, Anila Asghar). Funding: SSHRC.
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs (published or in press)
Isidore of Seville, On the Nature of Things. (with Calvin Kendall) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016.
Bede: Commentary on Revelation. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013.
reviews: Paul Hilliard, The Medieval Review 15.05.15
George House, Early Medieval Europe 22 (2014):363-366 [SJR H Index 18]; Jerome Kodell, American Benedictine Review 65,2 (2014):229-230.
Medieval Medicine: A Reader. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
reviews:Elma Brenner, Medical History 57,2 (2013):306-308 [SJR H Index 21]; Fernando Salmón, Social History of Medicine 24 (2011):840-842 [SJR H Index 24]; Maud Kozodoy, The Medieval Review 11.07.04 [
Bede: The Nature of Things and On Times (with Calvin Kendall). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010.
reviews:Debby Banham, British Journal for the History of Science 45 (2012):125-6 [SJR H Index 23]; Scott DeGregorio, Isis 103,2 (2012):396-7 [SJR H Index 31]; Siân Echard, Speculum 87,4 (2012) 1219-1220 [SJR H Index 19]; Conor O'Brien, English Historical Review 127/ 529 (2012):1473-4 [SJR H Index 11]; Immo Wartjes, The Medieval Review 12.08.01 ; Wilfrid Theisen, American Benedictine Review 62,3 (2011):351-2; Franklin T. Harkins, Review of Metaphysics 66,1 (2012): 132-4 [SJR H Index 13].
Bede: The Reckoning of Time. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999. 2nd ed. 2004.
Monographs (in preparation)
1. Alexander Neckam (1157-1217): The Natures of Things. Ed. and trans. with introduction and commentary by Faith Wallis. British Writers of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Oxford: Bodleian Library and Toronto: PIMS, under contract.
2. Bartholomaeus of Salerno: Commentaries on the Articella. Ed. and trans. with introduction and commentary by Faith Wallis. Edizione nazionale "La scuola medica Salernitana", Florence: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzi, under contract.
3. Reason and Reckoning: Albums of Science in England, c. 1000-c.1200. Proposal under consideration by Brepols.
Edited books
Agents of Transmission, Translation and Transformation in Medieval Cultures. Ed. Faith Wallis and Robert Wisnovsky. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016
The Herbal of al-Ghāfiqī. A facsimile edition of MS 7508 in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, with Scholarly Contributions. Ed. F. Jamil Ragep and Faith Wallis. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
Bede and the Future. Ed. Peter Darby and Faith Wallis. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.
reviews: George Hardin Brown, Speculum 90,3 (2015): 794-6 [SJR H Index 19].
Vehicles of Transmission, Translation and Transformation in Medieval Culture. Ed. Carlos Fraenkel, Jamie Fumo, Faith Wallis and Robert Wisnovsky. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011.
Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine: an Encyclopedia. Ed. Steven Livesey, Thomas Glick and Faith Wallis. London: Routledge, 2005.
reviews: Shana Worthen, Annals of Science 64,2 (2007) [SJR H Index 14], 284-286; Martin Guha, Reference Reviews 20,6 (2006):47-48.
75 Books from the Osler Library. Ed. Pamela Miller and Faith Wallis. Montreal: Osler Library, 2004.
reviews: Elizabeth Fee, JAMA 294, 21 (2005):2769 [SJR H Index 582].
Essays in collections/chapter in books (published or in press)
"Pre-Modern Surgery: Wounds, Words and the Paradox of 'Tradition'." In Palgrave Macmillan Handbook of the History of Surgery, ed. Thomas Schlich. 49-70 London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
"Between Reading and Doing: the Case of Medieval Manuscript Books of Practical Medicine." In The Edinburgh History of Reading: A World Survey from Antiquity to the Present, ed. Mary Hammond and Jonathan Rose. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming.
"Science". In Brill Companion to Isidore of Seville, ed. Jamie Wood and Andrew Fear. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.
"Sortes sanctorum and Alea celi: Dicing and Divination in Some Insular Computus Manuscripts." Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Science of Computus, National University of Ireland, Galway, 14 July 2012. Ed. Immo Wartjes. forthcoming.
"Character and Complexion in Twelfth-Century Medicine," in Miroirs de la mélancholie, ed. Hélène Cazes and Anne-France Morand. Collections de la République des Lettres. 59-86. Paris: Hermann, 2015.
"Why did Bede Write a Commentary on Revelation?" in Bede and the Future, ed. Peter Darby and Faith Wallis. 23-45. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.
"Medicine and the Senses," in A Cultural History of the Senses. Vol. 2: the Middle Ages, ed. Richard Newhauser. 133-152. New York: Berg, 2014.
"Calendars and Time (Christian)." Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
"The Ghost in the Articella: a Twelfth-Century Commentary on the Constantinian Liber Graduum." In Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West: Essays in Honor of John M. Riddle, ed. Anne Van Arsdall and Timothy Graham. 207-269. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012.
"Counting all the Bones: Measure, Number and Weight in Early Medieval Texts About the Body." In Was zählt: Ordnungsangebote, Gebrauchsformen, Erfahrungsmodalitäten des "numerus" im Mittelalter, ed. Moritz Wedell. 185-207. Vienna: Böhlau, 2012.
"Why was the Aphorisms of Hippocrates Re-Translated in the Eleventh Century?" In Vehicles of Transmission, Translation and Transformation, ed. Carlos Fraenkel, Jamie Fumo, Faith Wallis and Robert Wisnovsky. 179-199. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011.
"Bede's 'Science'." In The Cambridge Companion to Bede, ed. Scott DeGregorio. 113-126. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
"Michael of Rhodes and Time-Reckoning: Calendar, Almanac, Prognostication," in The Book of Michael of Rhodes, ed. Pamela O. Long, David McGee and Alan M. Stahl. Vol. 3, pp. 281-319. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009.
"Giulio Guastavini's Commentary on pseudo-Aristotle's Account of Male Same-Sex Coitus, Problemata 4.26." In The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe, ed. Kenneth Borris and George Rousseau. 55-71. London: Routledge, 2008.
"Twelfth-century Commentaries on the Tegni: Bartholomaeus of Salerno and Others." In Les parcours de l'Ars medica (Tegni) de Galien: lectures et interpétations depuis la fin de l'Antiquité jusqu'aux Universités médiévales, ed. Nicoletta Palmieri. 127-168. Saint-Étienne: Centre Jean-Palerne, 2008.
"Gregory of Tours' Nosebleeds," in Une traversée des savoirs. Mélanges offerts à Jackie Pigeaud, ed. Philippe Heuzé and Yves Hersant. Pp. 417-436. Quebec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2008.
"Caedmon's Created World and the Monastic Encyclopedia." In Caedmon's Hymn and Material Culture in the Anglo-Saxon World, ed. Allen Frantzen and John Hines. 80-111. Morgantown WV: West Virginia University Press, 2007.
"The Articella Commentaries of Master Bartholomaeus," in La Scuola medica salernitana: gli autori e i testi, ed. Agostino Paravicini Bagliani. 125-164. Florence: SISMEL, 2007.
"Si Naturam Quaeras: Reframing Bede's 'Science'," in Innovation and Tradition in the Writings of the Venerable Bede, ed. Scott DeGregorio, Medieval European Series 7. 61-94. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia UP, 2006.
"'Number Mystique' in Early Medieval Computus Texts," in Mathematics and the Divine: a Historical Study, ed. Tuen Koetsier and L. Bergmans, 181-199. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005.
"The Book of the Head in Osler Library MS 7586," in A Distinct Voice: Medieval Essays in Honor of Leonard E. Boyle, o.p., ed. William Stoneman and Jacqueline Brown, 121-154. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997.
"Chronology and Systems of Dating", and "Science", in Medieval Latin Studies: an Introduction and Bibliographic Guide, ed. George Rigg and Frank A.C. Mantello. 342-347, 383-387. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, Washington D.C., 1996.
"W.W. Francis: Scholar and Showman of the Osler Library, " in Essays in Canadian Library History, ed. Peter F. McNally, 319-344. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association, 1996.
"The Experience of the Book: Manuscripts, Texts, and the Role of Epistemology in Early Medieval Medicine," in Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions, ed. Don G. Bates, 101-126. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
"Medicine in Medieval Computus Manuscripts," in Manuscript Sources of Medieval Medicine, ed. Margaret Schleissner, 105-143. New York: Garland, 1995.
"Images of Order in the Medieval Computus," in ACTA XIV: Ideas of Order in the Middle Ages, edited by Warren Ginsberg, 45-67. Binghamton: State University of New York Press, 1990.
"The Church, the World, and the Time," in Normes et pouvoirs à la fin du moyen âge, edited by Marie-Claude Deprez-Masson, 15-29. Inedita et rara 7. Montreal: Ceres, 1990.
Essays in collections/chapters in books (in preparation)
"Disease, 1000-1300." In Handbook of Medieval Environmental History vol. 2, ed. Timothy Newfield and Philip Slavin (Leiden: Brill; text submitted to editors)
"Rectores at Risk: the Heresy on Intellectuals in Bede's Commentary on Proverbs." In Cities, Saints and Communities in Early Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of Alan T. Thacker, ed. by Scott DeGregorio and Paul Kershaw (Turnhout: Brepols; submitted).
"Diagrams as Glosses in a Family of English Twelfth-Century Manuscripts of Bede's De temporum ratione." In The Visualization of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Adam Cohen, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Marcia Kupfer and Andrea Worm (Israel Institute of Advanced Studies). To be published by Brepols (Turnhout, Belgium: submitted).
Electronic publications
The Calendar and the Cloister: MS Oxford St John's College 17.
A digital facsimile of an important 12th century English manuscript containing materials on time-reckoning, medicine, mathematics, cosmography and related topics, with a folio-by-folio hypertext commentary, background essays, glossary, bibliography, inventory of related manuscripts, and transcriptions of selected texts.
Refereed articles in journals (published and in press)
"The Book of the Head and the Book of Skin: Compilation and "Decompilation" in some Medieval Manuscripts of Practical Medicine in the Osler Library (McGill University)." Forthcoming inFlorilegium
"Albums of Science in Twelfth-Century England." Peritia28 (2017): 195-224[SJR H Index 5]
"Salsamenta pictavensium: Gastronomy and Medicine in Twelfth-Century England" (with Giles Gasper). English Historical Review 131; 553 (2016): 1353-1358 [SJR H Index 11]
"What a Diagram Shows: a Case Study of Computus." Studies in Iconography 36 (2015): 1-40 [SJR H Index 4]
"Computus, Computus, Crusade, and Construction: Writing England's Monastic Past and Future in MS Oxford St John's College 17." New Medieval Literatures 13 (2011):220-238
Guest editor, Medicine and the Soul of Science: Essays by and in Memory of Don G. Bates = Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 26,1 (2009). "Guest Editor's Preface", pp. 7-10 [SJR H Index 11]
"Anselm and the Articella," Traditio 59 (2004): 129-174. (with Giles Gasper) [SJR H Index 8]
"Inventing Diagnosis: Theophilus' De urinis in the Classroom," Dynamis 20 (2000): 31-73 [SJR H Index 8]
"Signs and Senses: Diagnosis and Prognosis in Early Medieval Pulse and Urine Texts." Social History of Medicine 13 (2000): 265-278 [SJR H Index 24]
"Theory and Practice in the Trial of Jean Domremi," (with Geneviève Dumas) Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 54 (1999):55-87 [SJR H Index 22]
"Lifetime Learning as Ethical Imperative: Listening Afresh to Sir William Osler." Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 6th ser., 3 (1992):87-97 [SJR H Index 1]
Editorials and non-refereed articles
"Piety and Prejudice." Canadian Medical Association Journal, 156(11) (June 1, 1997):1549-1551.
"The Man in the Library," in This is our Work: The Legacy of Sir William Osler, by Ted Grant, 44-50. Philadelphia: American College of Physicians, 1994.
Reference works, encyclopedia articles, exhibition catalogues
"Scientific Writing," in Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature, ed. Siân Echard and Robert Rouse. Oxford: Blackwell. forthcoming.
"Isidore of Seville (literary works)". Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, ed. Mark Humphreys and Oliver Nicholson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018
"Calendars and reckoning of time," in Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert Bjork. pp. 323-326. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010
"Oxford, St John's College MS 17." In Pen and Parchment: The Art of Drawing in the Middle Ages [exhibition catalogue]. Pp. 105-107. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 2009.
"Bartholomaeus of Salerno", "Bede", "Computus", "Gilles de Corbeil", "Maurus of Salerno", "Medicine, theoretical", "Medicine, practical", "Nicholas of Salerno", "Urso of Calabria" in Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine: an Encyclopedia. Ed. Steven Livesey, Thomas Glick and Faith Wallis. London: Routledge, 2005.
"Cingius" and "Cologne Prologue," in Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture vol. "C" ed. Tom Hall. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, forthcoming.
"T. Wesley Mills." Dictionary of Canadian Biography v.14. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. 760-762.
Book reviews
Essay reviews
Computus and its Cultural Context in the Latin West, AD 300-1200. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, Galway, 14-16 July, 2006. Ed. Immo Warntjes and Dáibhí Ó Cróinín. Studia traditionis theologiae 5. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. In Journal of the History of Astronomy 44 (2013): 101-104.
"The Ambiguities of Medieval Memoria." Canadian Journal of History 30 (1995):77-83.
Reviews
Sara M. Butler, Forensic Medicine and Death Investigation in Medieval England. Routledge Research in Medieval Studies. New York and London: Routledge, 2015. American Historical Review 121,4 (2016): 1353-1354.
Anne Kirkham and Cordelia Warr, eds. Wounds in the Middle Ages. The History of Medicine in Context. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. forthcoming in Social History of Medicine.
Jacalyn Duffin. Medical Saints: Cosmas and Damian in a Post-Modern World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, in Isis 106,2 (2015): 505-6.