Rate My Professor Constant Mews

Mews' research centres on the evolution of medieval philosophy, theology, and religious thought within their cultural, political, and social contexts. He is a recognised authority on Peter Abelard and Heloise, having edited Abelard’s Theologia, and authored influential works including The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard (1999), Listen Daughter: The Speculum virginum and the Formation of Religious Women (2001), Abelard and Heloise (2005), and the annotated translation of Christine de Pizan’s Book of Peace (2008), which received the Algo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Scholarly Study of Literature from the Modern Language Association of America in 2009. He also won the NSW Premier’s Prize in Non-Australian History in 2000 for his contributions. His research extends to Hildegard of Bingen, gender impacts on religious thought, eco-theology, comparative religion, financial ethics, and medieval music theory. Current projects include Metempsychosis: An Interreligious History (2023–2026) as Chief Investigator, and he has led teams on topics such as Addressing Injustice in the Medieval Body Politic (2019–2023), communities of learning (2013–2017), and imagining poverty (2011–2016). Mews promotes religious literacy and interfaith dialogue in a multi-religious society.