McLaughlin, Mary Martin 1919-2006

PERSONAL:

Born April 15, 1919, in Grand Island, NE; died of cancer, June 8, 2006, in Millbrook, NY. Education: University of Nebraska, A.B., 1940, M.A., 1941; Columbia University, Ph.D., 1952.

CAREER:

Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, instructor in history, 1943-46; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, instructor in history, 1946-48; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, visiting assistant professor of history, 1952, 1954-55; Vassar College, assistant professor of history, 1959-67; independent scholar, 1967-2006.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Grant for Europe, American Philosophical Society, 1955; fellow, Ingram Merrill Foundation, 1965-66; best article prize, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, 1975.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with James Bruce Ross, and coauthor of introduction) The Portable Medieval Reader, Viking Press (New York, NY), 1949, reprinted, Penguin Books (New York, NY), 1977.

(Editor, with James Bruce Ross, and coauthor of introduction) The Portable Renaissance Reader, Viking Press (New York, NY), 1953, reprinted, Penguin Books (New York, NY), 1977.

Intellectual Freedom and Its Limitations in the University of Paris in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, Arno Press (New York, NY), 1977.

The Letters of Heloise and Abelard, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 2002.

Also author of Heloise and the Paraclete: A Twelfth Century Quest, unpublished at the time of her death. Contributor to scholarly journals, including Renaissance Quarterly, Signs, Catholic Historical Review, American Historical Review, Church History, and Medieval Prosopography.

OBITUARIES:

PERIODICALS

New York Times, June 26, 2006, obituary by Margalit Fox, p. B7.