Barbara H. Rosenwein, née Herstein (born March 1, 1945) is an American historian who is professor emerita of history at Loyola University Chicago.
She retired from teaching as professor emerita in 2015, but continues to write and research.
[2] She was a scholar in residence at the American Academy in Rome from 2001 to 2002, was elected fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1991 and the Medieval Academy of America in 2003, and been affiliated with the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London since 2009.
She then proceeded to examine immunities (privileges given to monasteries to protect them from the encroachment of laypeople or the jurisdiction of bishops in the Middle Ages), resulting in Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe (1999).
[3] Rosenwein has authored or edited several works of historiography and general history.