The Center for Medieval Studies
The director of the Center for Medieval Studies for 2006-2007 is Maryanne Kowaleski. Members of the Executive Committee are marked with an asterisk (*).
Susanna Barsella, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures (PhD. Johns Hopkins ). | Medieval Italian literature; philosophy of work; patristic and medieval theology; Dante; Boccaccio; Petrarch. Selected Publications: “Il lavoro nel mondo romano. L’Homo Faber ipse suae fortuna,” I Problemi della Pedagogia (2005); “The Ancient Sources of the Humanistic Idea of Work. At the Confluence of Judeo-Christian and Greek Traditions,” Memorie Domenicane (2004); “Boccaccio and Humanism. A New Patristic Source of Proemio 14 and the Pestilence: Basil the Great’s Homily on Psalm 1,” Studi sul Boccaccio (2004). Current Projects: A book on “The Arts and the Man. The Idea of Work in Early Humanism,” and two articles, “Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Peter Damian. Two Models of Intellectual Work in Early Humanism” and “In the Light of Angels. Dante’s Angelology and the Role of Beatrice in the Divine Comedy.”
Catherine Batt, Dept. of English (PhD, Liverpool). | Translation; gender issues; medieval literature in French and English; hagiography and devotional literature; later medieval romance; twentieth-century medievalism. Selected Publications: “De celle mordure vient la mort dure;” Perspectives on Puns and their Translation in Henry, duke of Lancaster’s Livre de Seyntz Medicines” in The Medieval Translator 10, ed. J. Jenkins and Olivier Bertrand (forthcoming, 2007); “Translation and Society,” in A Companion to Medieval English Culture c. 1350-c.1500, ed. by Peter Brown (2007); “The Idioms of Women’s Work and Thomas Hoccleve’s Travails,” in The Middle Ages at Work, eds Kellie Robertson and Michael Uebel (2004); Malory’s Morte Darthur: Remaking Arthurian Tradition (2002); ed. and contr., Essays on Thomas Hoccleve (1996). Current Projects: A translation of Henry, duke of Lancaster’s Livre de Seyntz Medicines / Book of Holy Medicines, for the French of England translation series; a paper on Thomas of Lancaster as cultural context for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; an article on dying women in Malory.
William Baumgarth , Dept. of Political Science (PhD, Harvard). | Medieval political thought; political philosophy; Aquinas. Selected Publications: editor with Richard Regan of God and Creation (1994) and Aquinas: On Law, Morality, and Politics (1988).
James Boyce, O. Carm., Dept. of Art History and Music (PhD, NYU). | Gregorian chant; Carmelite history; liturgy. Selected Publications: With D. Lacoste and A. Mitchell, Salamanca, Archivo de la Catedral, 5, 6, 7, 8, Printouts from an Index in Machine-Readable Form, A Cantus Index (2001); facsimile edition of Salamanca, Archivo de la Catedral, mss. 5, 6, 7 and 8 (2002-2003); ed. and trans. with W.E. Coleman, Officium Presentationis Beate Virginis Marie in Templo, Paris, BNF MS latin 17330, fols. 7r-14r (2001); Praising God in Carmel , Studies in Carmelite Liturgy (1999); La Spiritualità della Liturgia Carmelitana (2002); “The Carmelite Choir Books of Krakow: Carmelite Liturgy before and after the Council of Trent,” Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 45 (2004); “Rhymed Office Responsory Verses: Style Characteristics and Musical Significance,” in Cantus Planus (1998). Current Projects: A study of 25 liturgical choirbooks in the Carmelite convent of Krakow, Poland.
Martin Chase, SJ, Dept. of English (PhD, Toronto ). | Old Norse; Old and Middle English; Medievalism; Myth. Selected Publications:“Framir kynnask vátta mál: The Christian Background of Einarr Skúlason’s Geisli,” in Til heiðurs og hugbótar. greinar um trúarkveðskap fyrri alda , ed. Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir and Anna Guðmundsdóttir (2003) ; “The Refracted Beam: Einarr Skúlason’s Liturgical Theology,” in Verbal Encounters: Festschrift for Roberta Frank, ed. Russell G. Poole and Antonina Harbus (2005); “True at Any Time: Grundtvig’s Subjective Interpretation of Nordic Myth” Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism 158 (2005); Einarr Skúlason’s Geisli : A Critical Edition (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005); on the editorial board of Traditio. Current Projects: a critical edition of Lilja for Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages.
John R. Clark, Dept. of Classics (PhD, Cornell). | Medieval Latin language and literature; Latin paleography. Selected Publications: A critical edition and translation of Marsilio Ficino: Three Books on Life (reprint 1998); “Early Latin Handwriting: The Evidence of Roman Comedy,” Classical Journal (2001); “Love and Learning in the Metamorphosis Golye Episcopi,” Mittelateinisches Jahrbuch (1986). Current Projects: An article, “ Anonymous on Alchemy, Aristotle, and Creation: An Unedited Thirteenth-Century Text”; a grammatical commentary to Abelard's Historia calamitatum; and an examination of the role of deception in Roman comedy.
Christopher M. Cullen, SJ, Dept. of Philosophy (PhD, The Catholic University of America ). | Bonaventure; Franciscan Augustinianism; Thomism; medieval metaphysics. Selected Publications: “Alexander of Hales,” in Blackwell Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, eds. Jorge Gracia and Timothy Noone (2003); “Scholastic Hylomorphism and Western Art: From the Gothic to the Baroque,” in Beauty, Art, and the Polis, ed. Alice Ramos (2000); “Transcendental Thomism: Realism Projected,” in The Failure of Modernism, ed. Brendan Sweetman (1999). Current Projects:Bonaventure for the Great Medieval Thinkers Series, Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
Brian Davies, OP, Dept. of Philosophy (PhD, London ). | Philosophy of religion; Aquinas; Anselm. Selected Publications: The Thought of Thomas Aquinas (1992); Philosophy of Religion: A Guide and Anthology (2000); Aquinas (2002); An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (3rd edn., 2003); with Richard Regan, an edition of Aquinas's De Malo (2003); co-editor with Brian Leftow, The Cambridge Companion to Anselm (2004); book review editor of International Philosophy Quarterly; on the editorial board of Religious Studies; General Editor of Oxford University Press's series “Great Medieval Thinkers.” Current Projects: Co-editor with Eleonore Stump, “The Oxford Handbook to Aquinas.”
George E. Demacopoulos, Dept. of Theology (PhD, Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill). | Byzantine theology; East and West; spiritual direction; asceticism. Selected Publications: Five Models of Spiritual Direction in the Early Church (University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming); “Leadership in the Post-Constantinian Church according to St. Gregory Nazianzen,” Louvain Studies (forthcoming); “Ambivalence in Athanasius’s Approach to Spiritual Direction,” Studia Patristica (forthcoming); “The Soteriology of Pope Gregory I: A Case Against the Augustinian Interpretation,” American Benedictine Review (2003); Current Projects: A new translation and commentary of Pope Gregory I’s Pastoral Rule.
Susan J. Dudash, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, French (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh).| Medieval French literature and politics; social and religious conflict; women; and the art of war. Selected Publications: “Christine de Pizan and the 'menu peuple',” Speculum (2003); “Eustache Deschamps: poète et commentateur politique,” in Les « Dictez vertueulx » d'Eustache Deschamps: Forme poétique et discours engagé à la fin du Moyen Âge, eds. M. Lacassagne and T. Lassabatère (2005); “Christinian Politics, the Tavern, and Urban Revolt in Late Medieval France,” in Healing the Body Politic: The Political Thought of Christine de Pizan, eds. K. Green and C. J. Mews (2005). Current Projects: a book, Giving Voice to the People: Poetic and Theological Responses to Social Class Conflict in Medieval France, 1270-1422, and articles on the politics of commemoration in the works of Eustache Deschamps and Christine de Pizan and the vices and social class in late medieval France.
Mary Erler, Dept. of English (PhD, Chicago). | Medieval drama; early printing; women’s reading and book ownership. Selected Publications: Editor of Robert Copland: Poems (1993); co-editor with Thelma Fenster, Poems of Cupid, God of Love (1991); “Devotional Literature,” in Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Vol. 3 1400-1557, eds. Lotte Hellinga and J.B. Trapp (1999); co-editor with Maryanne Kowaleski, Gendering the Master Narrative (2003); Women, Reading and Piety in Late Medieval England (2002). Current Projects: A volume of London ecclesiastical drama records for the Records of Early English Drama (REED) series, and a study of the ownership and provenance of London chronicle manuscripts.
Richard F. Gyug, Dept. of History (PhD, Toronto). | Medieval liturgy; religion and society; codicology; Spain and Italy. Selected Publications:Missale ragusinum: The Missal of Dubrovnik (1990); The Diocese of Barcelona During the Black Death: The Register ‘Notule communium’ 15 (1994); ed., Medieval Cultures in Contact (2003); co-editor with Kathleen G. Cushing, Ritual, Text and Law: Studies in Medieval Canon Law and Liturgy presented to Roger E. Reynolds (2004). Current Projects: An edition and study of a liturgical-legal manuscript from Kotor in southern Dalmatia.
Susanne Hafner, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, German (Ph.D. Universität Hamburg). | Medieval German literature and culture; Arthurian literature; codicology; gender. Selected Publications: Maskulinität in der höfischen Erzählliteratur (2004); “Of Monsters and Men: The Power of Female Imagination in Les Quatre Sohais Saint-Martin,” in Comic Provocations: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux, ed. H. A. Crocker (2006); “Erzählen im Raum: Der Schmalkaldener Iwein,” in Visualisierungsstrategien in mittelalterlichen Bildern und Texten, ed. H. Wenzel and C. S. Jaeger (2006). Current Projects: a monograph on Virgilian Masculinities: Medieval Readings of the Aeneid, an article on the Middle English Sir Percival of Gales: “He ne wiste nother of evyll ne gude: A Prelapsarian Perceval,” and an article on Abbot Ellinger of Tegernsee and his autographs.
Franklin T. Harkins, Dept. of Theology (PhD, University of Notre Dame). | Scholastic theology; Hugh of St. Victor; history of Jewish-Christian relations; medieval and patristic exegesis; Augustine. Selected Publications: “Secundus Augustinus: Hugh of St. Victor on Liberal Arts Study and Salvation,” Augustinian Studies (2006); “Nuancing Augustine’s Hermeneutical Jew: Allegory and Actual Jews in the Bishop’s Sermons,” Journal for the Study of Judaism (2005). Current Projects: A monograph, Historia, Reading and Restoration in the Theology of Hugh of St. Victor, for Brepols’ series Bibliotheca Victorina; an article, “Fundamentum omnis doctrinae: The Memorization of History in the Pedagogy of Hugh of St. Victor,” forthcoming in Pecia: Ressources en médiévistique; and an essay, “Primus doctor Iudaeorum: Moses as Theological Master in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas,” for Illuminating Moses: A History of Reception, 2nd-15 Century, eds. Grover Zinn and E. Ann Matter (Brill).
Patrick Hornbeck, Dept. of Theology (DPhil, Oxford). | Heresy and orthodoxy in late medieval England and France; Lollardy and Catharism; the Reformation; dissenting movements in the history of Western Christianity. Selected Publications: “Lollard Sermons? Soteriology and Late-Medieval Dissent,” Notes and Queries (2006); “Towards a Christian Pluralism: Revising Rahner’s Transcendental Theology,” Journal of Theta Alpha Kappa (2005). Current Projects: A book on the development of Lollard/Wycliffite doctrines of the sacraments, tentatively entitled Disputing the Sacraments in Late Medieval England; a collection of Wycliffite spiritual writings for the Classics of Western Spirituality series; an online edition of John Wyclif’s Latin works; and two articles, “Theologies of Sexuality in English ‘Lollardy’” and “Wycklyffes Wycket and Eucharistic Theology: Two Series of Cases from Sixteenth-Century Winchester.”
Javier Jimenez-Belmonte, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures (PhD, Columbia ). | Medieval and early modern Spanish literature. Selected Publications: “Hagiografia y denuncia politica en la primera Cronica Anomina de Sahagun,” La Coronica (2001); “Amistad y novella sentimental: ‘Bien amar’ al amigo en ‘Siervo libre de amor,’” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (2002). Current Projects: A monograph on Francisco de Borja’s ‘Obras en Verso’ and the formation of the Spanish literary field; an edition of the poetry of the Prince of Esquilache; and a study of the role of friendship in the birth of a literary conscience in 15th-century Castile.
Gyula Klima, Dept. of Philosophy (PhD, Lóránd Eötvös, Budapest ). | Logic and Metaphysics; Anselm; Aquinas; Ockham; Buridan. Selected Publications : Ars Artium: Essays in Philosophical Semantics, Medieval and Modern (1988); John Buridan: Summulae de Dialectica, an annotated translation with a philosophical introduction (2001); “The Essentialist Nominalism of John Buridan,” The Review of Metaphysics (2005); “Consequences of a Closed, Token-Based Semantics: The Case of John Buridan,” History and Philosophy of Logic (2004); “Natures: The Problem of Universals,” in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy (2003); “Aquinas’ Theory of the Copula and the Analogy of Being,” Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy (2002); editor of Fordham Series in Medieval Studies . Current Projects : The Logic and Metaphysics of John Buridan, Oxford University Press (forthcoming); Blackwell Readings in Medieval Philosophy, Blackwell Publishers (forthcoming).
Joseph Koterski, SJ, Dept. of Philosophy (PhD, St. Louis ). | Medieval philosophy; natural law ethics; Thomistic metaphysics; Dante. Selected Publications: co-editor with Ronald Begley, Medieval Education (2005); “The Doctrine of Participation in Aquinas’s Commentary on St. John,” in Being and Thought in Aquinas, ed. J. Hackett and W. Murnion (2004); “Boethius and the Theological Origins of the Concept of Person,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (2004); “Thomas More on Conscience” in Thomas More: Selected Writings, ed. J.F. Thornton and S.B. Varenne (2003); “Karl Jaspers on Philosophy of Religion: His Treatment of Anselm and Cusa” in Karl Jaspers on the History of Philosophy and Philosophy of History, ed. J. Koterski and R. Langley (2003); editor in chief of International Philosophy Quarterly. Current Project: A monograph, “An Introduction to Medieval Philosophy: Some Basic Concepts.”
Maryanne Kowaleski, Dept. of History (PhD, Toronto ) | Economic and social history; women and family; urban and maritime history; England . Selected Publications:Medieval Towns: A Reader (2005); Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter (1995); ed., The Havener’s Accounts of the Earldom and Duchy of Cornwall , 1287-1356 (2001); co-editor with M. Erler, Women and Power in the Middle Ages (1988); on the editorial board of Speculum. Current Projects: an article on “Gender, Gossip, and the Economy in Late Medieval England,” and a book study, “Living from the Sea: An Ethnography of Maritime Communities in Medieval England.”
Kathryn Kueny, Dept. of Theology (PhD, Chicago). | Qur’anic studies; medieval Islamic law, literature, and exegesis; Abrahamic traditions. Selected Publications: The Rhetoric of Sobriety: Wine in Early Islam (2001); “Wine and Mystical Speculation: The poetics of intoxication in the poetry of Umar ibn al-Farid,” Syro-Mesopotamian Studies (2005); “Abraham’s Test: Islamic male circumcision as ante/anti-covenantal practice,” Bible and Qur’an: Essays in Scriptural Intertextuality (2003); on the editorial board of Comparative Islamic Studies. Current Projects: A monograph, “Islamic Perceptions of Birth: From ordinary to extraordinary,” and an article, “From the Bodies of Bees: The classical echoes in Surat al-Nahl .”
Joseph T. Lienhard, SJ, Dept. of Theology (Dr Theol Habil, Freiburg ). | Patristics. Selected Publications: The Bible, the Church, and Authority: The Canon of the Christian Bible in History and Theology (1995); translator, Origen: Homilies on Luke; Fragments on Luke (1996); Contra Marcellum: Marcellus of Ancyra and Fourth-Century Theology (1999); ed., Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (2001; trans. into Italian and Spanish); managing editor of the journal Traditio. Current Projects: A book, “Theology in the Age of the Fathers,” with Kenneth B. Steinhauser and Robin Darling Young.
Katherine Clover Little, Dept. of English (PhD, Duke). | Middle English literature; Wycliffite literature. Selected Publications: Confession and Resistance: Defining the Self in Late Medieval England (forthcoming); “Images, Texts and Exegetics in Chaucer’s Second Nun’s Tale,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (forthcoming); “Chaucer’s Parson and the Specter of Wycliffism,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer (2001); “Cathechesis and Castigation: Sin in the Wycliffite Sermon Cycle,” Traditio (1999). Current Projects: An article, “Friars and Fantasies of Reform in Piers Plowman .”
Anne M. Mannion, Dept. of History (PhD, Fordham). | Medieval social history, Cistercian monasticism. Current Projects: Editing the Usus monachorum, a compilation of monastic customs, including translation and critical commentary.
Wolfgang P. Müller, Dept. of History (PhD, Syracuse ; Dr Phil Habil, Augsburg ). | Medieval legal and ecclesiastical history; canon law; scholasticism. Selected Publications:Huguccio. The Life, Works, and Thought of a Twelfth-Century Jurist (1994); The Criminalization of Abortion, 1140-1650 (in German; 2000). Current Projects: A collection of essays, Medieval Church Law and the Origins of the Western Legal Tradition, co-edited with Mary E. Sommar (forthcoming) and a monograph, “Church Law and Medieval Western Society.”
Astrid M. O’Brien, Dept. of Philosophy (PhD, Fordham). | Medieval philosophy; natural theology; mystical tradition. Selected Publications: "Lucie Christine: Nineteenth-Century Wife, Mother and Mystic," in Mapping the Catholic Cultural Landscape, ed. P.J. Miller and R. Fossey (2004); “Contemplation Along the Roads of the World: The Reflections of Raissa and Jacques Maritain,” in Lay Sanctity: Medieval and Modern, ed. A. Astell (2000); a new preface to the Journal Spirituel de Lucie Christine (1999); “Metaphysics as a Spiritual Journey,” in Conflict and Community, New Studies in Thomistic Thought, ed. M. Lukens (1992). Current Projects: A biography of Lucie Christine.
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Giorgio Pini, Dept. of Philosophy (PhD, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa , Italy ). | Medieval philosophy; late medieval intellectual history; Henry of Ghent; Giles of Rome; Duns Scotus. Selected Publications:Categories and Logic in Duns Scotus (2002); “Henry of Ghent’s Doctrine of Verbum in Its Theological Context,” in Henry of Ghent and the Transformation of Scholastic Thought, ed. J. Decorte et al. (2003); “Substance, Accident, and Inherence: Scotus and the Paris Debate on the Eucharist,” in Duns Scot à Paris, ed. O. Boulnois (2004); on the editorial board of Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale: An International Journal on the Philosophical Tradition from Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages. Current Projects: A critical edition of the recently discovered Notabilia super Metaphysicam by Duns Scotus and Giles of Rome for Theological Quodlibeta in the Middle Ages.
Nina Rowe, Dept. of Art History and Music (PhD, Northwestern University). | High and late medieval art history in France and Germany; Christian-Jewish relations; modern medievalism. Selected Publications: Co-author with S. Hindman, Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age: Recovery and Reconstruction (2001); co-editor with D. Areford, Excavating the Medieval Book: Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences (2004); “Idealization and Subjection at the South Porch of Strasbourg Cathedral,” in Beyond the Yellow Badge: New Approaches to Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism in Medieval and Renaissance Visual Culture, ed. M. Merback (forthcoming). Current Projects: A monograph entitled “The Beauty of Defeat: Synagoga, Ecclesia and Urban Spectatorship in the High Middle Ages,” and an article on anti-Judaic Passion imagery in fourteenth-century devotional ivories.
George W. Shea, Dept. of Classics (PhD, Columbia ). | Latin poetry; Late Latin. Selected Publications:The Poems of Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus (1997); The Iohannis of Flavius Cresconius Corippus (1998); Delia and Nemesis, The Elegies of Albius Tibullus (1998). Current Projects: A commentary on the Iohannis of Corippus.
Maureen A. Tilley, Dept. of Theology (Ph.D, Duke Univ. ) | North African Christianity; early Christian lifestyles and literature; history of biblical interpretation. Selected Publications: "From Schism to Heresy in Late Antiquity: Developing Doctrinal Deviance in the Wounded Body of Christ," Journal of Early Christian Studies 15 (2007); "Mary in Roman Africa: Evidence for her Cultus." Studia Patristica 39 (2006); "Regional Varieties of Christianity in the First Three Centuries: North Africa" in the Cambridge History of Early Christianity: Origins to Constantine, ed. by M. Mitchell and F. Young (2006); "No Friendly Letters: Augustine’s Correspondence with Women" in The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender Asceticism and History, ed. by D. Martin and P. C. Miller (2005); "Theologies of Penance in the Catholic-Donatist Controversy," Studia Patristica 35 (2001). The Bible in Christian North Africa: The Donatist World (1997); Donatist Martyr Stories: Conflict in Roman North Africa (1996). Current Projects: Chapters on the fourth and fifth centuries, martyrs, and pious practices in Devotion and Dissent: The Practice of Christianity in Roman North Africa, ed. by J. P. Burns and R. Jensen. Translations of Augustine’s anti-Donatist works for Augustine for the 21st Century.
Suzanne M. Yeager , Dept. of English (PhD, Toronto ). | Middle English literature; pilgrimage and crusade narrative; medieval romance. Selected Publications: “The Siege of Jerusalem and Biblical Exegesis: Writing about Romans in Fourteenth-Century England,” The Chaucer Review 39 (2004); “Marco Polo and Sir John Mandeville: The Politics of Exchange,” in Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West (forthcoming, 2005). Current Projects: An article on “Affective Piety and the Texting of Pilgrimage,” and a book on English medieval political and devotional identity, “ Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative.”
Thelma Fenster, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, Professor Emerita (PhD, Texas , Austin ). | Old and Middle French language and literature; gender studies. Selected Publications:Christine de Pizan’s “Le Livre du duc des vrais amans.” A Critical Edition (1995); Arthurian Women: A Casebook (repr. 2000); co-editor with Mary Erler, Poems of Cupid, God of Love (1991); co-editor with Daniel Smail, Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe (2003); co-editor with Clare Lees, Gender in Debate, From the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance (2002). Current Projects: With Jocelyn Wogan-Browne the book “The French of England,” and several volumes that will provide tools for studying French texts that circulated in England over a period of 400 years.
Maris G. Fiondella, Dept. of English, Professor Emerita (PhD, Fordham). | Medieval western drama/theatre; Japanese Noh drama; Augustine. Selected Publications: "The Conversion of the Sign in the Towneley Passion Plays," in New Approaches to Medieval Textuality, ed. M. Ledgerwood (1998); "Derrida, Typology, and The Second Shepherds' Play," Exemplaria 6 (1994). Current Projects: A study of sexual symbolism in St. Augustine 's language-theory; an article on theatrical signs (e.g. costume, gesture) and eucharistic theology in the Fleury Easter plays.
Joel A. Herschman, Dept. of Art History and Music, Professor Emeritus (PhD, Institute of Fine Arts , NYU). | Medieval architecture; history of technology; history of photography. Selected Publications: Co-author with R. Mark, Architectural Technology up to the Scientific Revolution (1993); co-author with C. Robinson Architecture Transformed, A History of the Photographing of Building (1987, 1988, 1990); “The Norman Ambulatory of Le Mans and the Chevey of the Cathedral of Coutances,” Gesta (1981). Current Projects: A book on the abbey church at Jumieges with James Moranstern, forthcoming in the series Monuments Historiques de France.
John Ryle Kezel, Director of the Saint Edmund Campion Institute For the Advancement of Intellectual Excellence and Director of the Office of Prestigious Fellowships (PhD, Fordham). | Old English language and literature; Gothic language and literature; Old Norse language and literature; Benedictine and Franciscan studies. Current Projects : Two books, "The Franciscan Crown: A Medieval Devotion” and “Reading the Rood: An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Language, Literature, and Studies,” as well as assisting the Smithsonian Institution in Washington , D.C. , with cataloguing and studying their rosary and medal collections.
Joseph O’Callaghan, Joseph F. O’Callaghan, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of History (PhD, Fordham). | Medieval Spain ; medieval kingship and parliaments. Selected Publications: Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain ((2003); Alfonso X and the Cantigas de Santa Maria: A Poetic Biography (1998); AlfonsoX, the Cortes, and Government in Medieval Spain (1998); The Learned King: The Reign of Alfonso X of Castile (1993); The Cortes of Castile-León, 1188-1350 (1989); The Spanish Military Order of Calatrava and its Affiliates (1975); A History of Medieval Spain (1975); translator, The Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Castile (2002); translator, The Autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyola (1992). Current Projects: A monograph, “ The Election of Bishops in the Catholic Church”; he is an Honorary Associate of the Sociedad Española de Estudios Medievales, a former Director of the Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham, and a past president of the American Catholic Historical Association.
Marilyn Oliva, Dept. of History, Adjunct Associate Professor (PhD, Fordham). | Women and religion; England . Selected Publications:Charters and Household Accounts of the Female Monasteries in the County of Suffolk (forthcoming); The Convent and the Community in Late Medieval England: Female Monasteries in the Diocese of Norwich, 1350-1540 (1998); co-author with R. Gilchrist, Religious Women in Medieval East Anglia (1993); “All in the Family? Monastic and Clerical Careers among Family Members in the Late Middle Ages,” Medieval Prosopography (1999). Current Projects: Two articles, “Nuns at Home: The Domesticity of Sacred Space” and “The Visual Culture of Medieval English Convents.”
Elizabeth Parker, Dept. of Art History and Music, Professor Emerita (PhD, Inst. of Fine Arts, NYU). | Romanesque art in England and Italy ; Byzantine art; Gothic art; medieval art and liturgy; women and art . Selected Publications: The Descent From the Cross: Its Relation to the Extra-Liturgical ‘Depositio’ Drama (1978); co-author with C.T. Little, The Cloisters Cross: Its Art and Meaning (1994); The Liturgy of the Medieval Church (repr. 2004); “The Gift of the Cross in the Liber Vitae,” in Reading Medieval Images: The Art Historian and the Object, ed. E. Sears and T.K. Thomas (2002); on the editorial boards of Traditio and TEAMS. Current Projects: Articles on Margaret of Antioch at Fornovo di Taro and on Antelami's Deposition relief at Parma .
Louis B. Pascoe, SJ, Dept. of History, Professor Emeritus (PhD, UCLA). | Ecclesiastical and intellectual history; reform ideologies; universities; church and state. Selected Publications: Jean Gerson: Principles of Church Reform (1973); “Religious Orders, Evangelical Liberty, and Reform in the Thought of Jean Gerson,” in Reformbemühungen und Observanzbestrebungen in spätmittelalterlichen Ordenswesen, ed. K. Elm (1989); “The Jesuits and the Modus Parisiensis: A Response,” in The Jesuit Ratio Studiorum: 400th Anniversary Perspectives, ed. V. Duminuco (2000); Church and Reform: Bishops, Theologians, and Canon Lawyers in the Thought of Pierre d’Ailly (2005). Current Projects: An article, “Scripture, Law, and the Church in the Late Middle Ages.”
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