Specialty Areas:
Medieval history, Ancient and Medieval Church
Current Research Interests:
Preaching and the history of the sermon in the high middle ages; medieval popular religion and heresy, monasticism, and hagiography.
Sample Publications/Papers:
- Pastoral Care in the Late Middle Ages: 1200-1500, ed. (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2010).
- “The Rise of Medieval Universities” in Exploring the European Past, Thomson Press, 2003.
- “Adtendite a falsis prophetis: Pseudo Predicators and the Preaching Reforms of the Late Twelfth Century” 37th Annual World Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, Spring, 2002.
- “A Preliminary Manuscript Catalogue of the Sermons of Ralph Ardent” in Studi Medievali, 3rd Series (December, 2001): 875-895.