Gabriel Radle
Rev. John A. O'Brien Assistant Professor of Theology
Primary Field of Study: Liturgical Studies
Education
Ph.D. Pontifical Oriental Institute (Rome)
Research and Training Interests
Liturgy, Late Antique and Medieval Christianity, Rites of Passage, Eastern Christian Liturgy and Monasticism
Selected Publications
"Liturgy and Charitable Ministration in Late Antiquity: Diakonia Prayers in the Earliest Euchologion Manuscripts" in Ex Fonte 2 (2023): 259-296.
"The Veiling of Women in Byzantium: Liturgy, Hair, and Identity in a Medieval Rite of Passage" in Speculum 94 (2019): 1070-1115.
"Bishops Blessing the Bridal Bedchamber in the Early Middle Ages: Reconsidering the Western Evidence" in Medium Aevum 87 (2018): 219-238.
"Embodied Eschatology: The Council of Nicaea's Regulation of Kneeling and Its Reception across Liturgical Traditions," Part I in Worship 90 (2016) 345-371; Part II in Worship 90 (2016) 433-461.
“The Liturgical Ties Between Egypt and Southern Italy: A Preliminary Investigation” in Diliana Atanassova and Tinatin Chronz (eds.), ΣΥΝΑΞΗΣ ΚΑΘΟΛΙΚΗ. Beiträge zu Gottesdienst und Geschichte der fünf altkirchlichen Patriarchate für Heinzgerd Brakmann zum 70. Geburtstag (Münster 2014) 617-632.
Biography
Gabriel Radle specializes in early and medieval Christian liturgy, with a particular focus on the Mediterranean world. His research contextualizes the historical practice of Christianity through the comparative reading of liturgical manuscripts across traditions and by engaging these sources with visual and material culture, hagiography, homiletic literature, and legal documents, both canonical and civil. His publications include studies on marriage rituals in East and West, including a monograph on late antique and Byzantine weddings (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press), prayer books on Sinai, medieval rites of passage for children and adolescents, manuscripts of eucharistic texts, and the unique medieval religious history of Southern Italy. Radle has lectured internationally and held research fellowships at Yale University's Institute of Sacred Music, Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Princeton University, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the University of Regensburg (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellow).
Contact
235 Malloy
(574) 631-8137
gradle@nd.edu