CurriculumVitaeof

RobertE.Lerner
I.Born:NewYorkCity,8February1940
II.Education:
UniversityofChicago:B.A.1960
PrincetonUniversity:M.A.1962Ph.D.1964
UniversityofMnster/Westphalia(196263)
III.Employment:
PrincetonUniversity:Instructor(196364)
WesternReserveUniversity:AssistantProfessor
(196467)
NorthwesternUniversity:AssistantProfessor(196771)
AssociateProfessor(197176)Professor(1976)
PeterB.RitzmaProfessorintheHumanities(1993
IV.HonorsandAwards:
Fellow,MedievalAcademyofAmerica
GuestLectureratthefollowingEuropeanUniversities:
Bayreuth,Berlin(FreeUniversityTechnical
University),Cambridge,Constance,Florence,Fribourg,
Gttingen,Hamburg,Heidelberg,Oxford,London,
Perugia,NewcastleuponTyne,Wrzburg,York
NEHLectureratNotreDameUniversity,Universityof
California,SanDiego
GuestLectureratClevelandMuseumofArt,DumbartonOaks
ResearchCenter,manyU.S.collegesanduniversities
Fellow,InternationalSocietyforFranciscanStudies
FulbrightSeniorFellowship(196768)
NEHResearchGrant(197273)
ACLSFellowship(197980)
AmericanAcademyinRomeFellowship(198384)
GuggenheimFellowship(19841985)
InstituteforAdvancedStudy:Member,Schoolof
HistoricalStudies(198889)
RockefellerFoundation:BellagioStudyCenterResidency
(1989)
HistorischesKolleg(Munich):Forschungspreis:1992
Stipendiat(199293)
WoodrowWilsonInternationalCenterforScholars
(Washington,D.C.):Fellow(199697)
MaxPlanckGesellschaft:PrizeforInternational
Collaboration(19972001)
EditorialBoard:Franciscana,FranciscanStudies,
PicenumSeraphicum,Rivistadi
StoriadelCristianesimo,Oliviana,
JoachimAbbasFlorensisOperaomnia

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V.Publications
A.Books
1.)TheAgeofAdversity:TheFourteenthCentury(Cornell
UniversityPress,1968)
2.)TheHeresyoftheFreeSpiritintheLaterMiddleAges
(UniversityofCaliforniaPress,19722nded.:NotreDame
UniversityPress,1991)
3.)ThePowersofProphecy: TheCedarofLebanonVision
fromtheMongolOnslaughttotheDawnoftheEnlightenment
(UniversityofCaliforniaPress,l983)
4.)WeissagungenberdiePpste,withRobertMoynihan
(BelserVerlag,Stuttgart,1985)
5.)JohannesdeRupescissa,Libersecretorumeventuum:
Editioncritique,traductionetintroductionhistorique,withC.
MorerodFattebert(Fribourg,1994)
6.)Refrigeriodeisanti(Rome,1995)(Collectedarticleson
prophecyandeschatologyinItaliantranslation.)
7.)EditorofNeueRichtungeninderhochund
sptmittelalterlichenBibelexegese(Munich,1996)
8.)WesternCivilizations,withStandishMeachamandE.M.
Burns,13thedition(W.W.Norton&Company,1998)
(ThistexthasbeentranslatedintoChinese,Korean,
Spanish,andPortuguese.)
9.)TheFeastofSaintAbraham:TheJoachiteMillenniumand
theJews(UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress:2001)(Italian
translation:LafestadisantAbramo[Rome,2002]Catalan
translationofchapterseveninLlengua&Literatura,17[2006],
728)
B.Varia
1.)CoauthorofOneThousandYears:WesternEuropeinthe
MiddleAges,withD.Herlihy,D.Nicholas,D.Queller,J.B.
Russell,andR.DeMolen(HoughtonMifflinCompany,1974)
2.)PrefaceforMargueritePorete:TheMirrorofSimple
Souls,tr.E.Babinsky(ClassicsofWesternSpirituality)(New
York,1993)
3.)CoauthorofPropagandaMiniata:Leoriginidelle
profeziepapali`AscendeCalve',withOritSchwartz(Milan,1994)
4.)IntroductionforHerbertGrundmann:ReligiousMovements
intheMiddleAges,tr.S.Rowan(NotreDame,1995)
5.)CoauthorofWorldCivilizations,withP.Ralph,etal.
9thed.(W.W.Norton&Company,1997)
C.Articles
1.)"TheUsesofHeterodoxy:TheFrenchMonarchyand
UnbeliefintheThirteenthCentury,FrenchHistoricalStudies,4
(1965),190202.
2.)"VagabondsandLittleWomen:TheMedievalNetherlandish
DramaticFragmentDeTruwanten,"ModernPhilology,65(1968),
301306.

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3.)"WeltklerusundreligiseBewegungim13.Jahrhundert.
DasBeispielPhilippsdesKanzlers,"ArchivfrKulturgeschichte,
51(1969),94108.
4.)"TheImageofMixedLiquidsinLateMedievalMystical
Thought,"ChurchHistory,40(1971),397411.
5.)"ACollectionofSermonsGiveninParisc.1267,
IncludingaNewTextbySaintBonaventuraontheLifeofSaint
Francis,"Speculum,49(1974),466498.
6.)"ANoteontheUniversityCareerofJacquesFournier,O.
Cist.,laterPopeBenedictXII,"AnalectaCisterciensia,30
(1974),6669.
7.)"MedievalProphecyandReligiousDissent,"Pastand
Present,72(August,l976),324.
8.)"RefreshmentoftheSaints:TheTimeAfterAntichrist
asaStationforEarthlyProgressinMedievalThought,"Traditio,
32(1976),97144.
9.)"An`AngelofPhiladelphia'intheReignofPhilipthe
Fair:TheCaseofGuiardofCressonessart"inOrderand
InnovationintheMiddleAges(Princeton,1976),343364,
529540.
10.)"JoachimofFioreasaLinkbetweenSt.Bernardand
InnocentIIIontheFiguralSignificanceofMelchsidech,"
MediaevalStudies,42(1980),47176.
11.)"TheBlackDeathandWesternEuropeanEschatological
Mentalities,"AmericanHistoricalReview,86(1981),53352.
11bis)samewithconsiderablerevisionsin:TheBlack
Death:TheImpactoftheFourteenthCenturyPlague,ed.D.
Williman(Binghamton,1982),77105.
12.)"Lescommunautshrtiques(11501500),"LeMoyenAge
etlaBible,ed.P.RichandG.Lobrichon(Paris,1984),
597614.
13.)"TheRichComplexityoftheLateMedievalChurch,"
MedievaliaetHumanistica,12(1984),22534.
14.)"JoachimofFiore'sBreakthroughtoChiliasm,"
Cristianesimonellastoria,6(1985),489512.
15.)"AntichristsandAntichristinJoachimofFiore,"
Speculum,60(1985),55370.
16.)"Poverty,Preaching,andEschatologyintheRevelation
CommentariesofHughofSt.Cher,"TheBibleintheMedieval
World:EssaysinMemoryofBerylSmalley,ed.K.WalshandD.
Wood(Oxford,1985),15789.
17.)"ACaseofReligiousCounterCulture:TheGerman
Waldensians,"TheAmericanScholar(Spring,1986),23447.
18.)"Petrarch'sCoolnesstowardDante:AConflictof
`Humanisms',"IntellectualsandWritersintheFourteenth
Century,ed.P.BoitaniandA.Torti(J.A.W.BennettMemorial
Lectures,3)(Tbingen,1986),204225.
19.)"OntheOriginsoftheEarliestLatinPopeProphecies,"
FlschungenimMittelalter(Hannover,1988),V,61135.
20.)"Waldenser,LollardenundTaboriten.ZumSektenbegriff
beiWeberundTroeltsch,"MaxWebersSichtdesokzidentalen
Christentums,ed.W.Schluchter(Frankfurt,1988),32654.

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21.)"FrederickII,Alive,Aloft,andAllayedinFranciscan
JoachiteEschatology,"TheUseandAbuseofEschatologyinthe
MiddleAges,ed.W.Verbeke(Louvain,1988),35984.
22.)"ThePopeandtheDoctor,"TheYaleReview,78(1988
89),6279.
23.)"OntheOriginsandtheImportoftheColumbinus
Prophecy,"withE.A.R.Brown,Traditio,45(1989/90),21956.
24.)"MillnarismelittraleetvocationdesJuifschezJean
deRoquetaillade,"Mlangesdel'EcolefrancaisedeRome:Moyen
Age,102(1990),31115.
25.)"ErnstKantorowiczandTheodorE.Mommsen,"An
InterruptedPast:GermanSpeakingRefugeeHistoriansinthe
UnitedStates,ed.H.LehmannandJ.Sheehan(WashingtonD.C.and
Cambridge,1991),188205.
26.)"ThePropheticManuscriptsofthe`RenaissanceMagus'
PierleoneofSpoleto,"IlprofetismogioachimitatraQuattrocento
eCinquecento,ed.G.L.Potest(Genoa,1991),97116.
27.)"WernerdiFriedbergintrappolatodallalegge,"La
parolaall'accusato,ed.J.C.MaireVigueurandA.Paravicini
Bagliani(Palermo,1991),25871.
28.)"EcstaticDissent,"Speculum,67(1992),3357.
29.)"TheMedievalReturntotheThousandYearSabbath,"
TheApocalypseintheMiddleAges,ed.R.EmmersonandB.McGinn
(Ithaca,1992),5171.
30.)"I`Prelati'dell'ecclesiaspiritualis,"Poteri
carismaticieinformali:chiesaesocietmedioevali,ed.A.
VauchezandA.ParaviciniBagliani(Palermo,1992),13752.
31.)"RecentWorkontheOriginsofthe`Genusnequam'
Prophecies,"Florensia,7(1993),14157.
32.)"WritingandResistanceAmongBeguinsofLanguedocand
Catalonia,"HeresyandLiteracy,10001530,ed.P.Billerand
AnneHudson(Cambridge,1994),186204.
33.)"HimmelsvisionoderSinnendelirium?Franziskanerund
ProfessorenalsTraumdeuterimParisdes13.Jahrhunderts,"
HistorischeZeitschrift,259(1994),33767.
34.)"IlluminatedPropaganda:TheOriginsofthe`Ascende
calve'PopeProphecies,"withO.Schwartz,JournalofMedieval
History,20(1994),15791.
35.)"ErnstH.Kantorowicz,"MedievalScholarship,vol.1:
History,ed.H.Damico(NewYork,1995),26376.
36.)"`PopularJustice':RupescissainHussiteBohemia,"
EschatologieundHussitismus(Prague,1996),3952.
37.)"NewEvidencefortheCondemnationofMeisterEckhart,"
Speculum,72(1997),34766.
38.)"`MeritoriousAcademicService:Kantorowiczand
Frankfurt,"ErnstKantorowicz:ErtrgederDoppeltagung...,
ed.R.L.BensonandJ.Fried(Stuttgart,1997),1432.
39.)"KantorowiczandContinuity,"ErnstKantorowicz...
(asitem38),10423.
40.)"Millennialism,"TheEncyclopediaofApocalypticism,
vol.2,ed.B.McGinn(NewYork,1998),32660.

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41.)"PeterOliviontheConversionoftheJews,"Pierrede
JeanOlivi,ed.A.BoureauandS.Piron(Paris,1999),20716.
42.)"MedievalProphecyandPolitics,"Annalidell'Istituto
storicoitalogermanicoinTrento,25(1999),41732.
43.)PreachinginParisintheThirteenthCentury,
Franciscana,2(2000),185200.
44.)JoachimandtheScholastics,GioacchinodaFioretra
BernardodiClairvauxeInnocenzoIII,ed.R.Rusconi(Rome,
2001),25164.
45.)GentileofFolignoInterpretstheProphecy`Woetothe
World,withM.Kaup,Traditio,56(2001),149211.
46.)ANewlyDiscoveredLetterbyGeorgSimmelofMay
1918,SimmelStudies,13(2003),42538.
47.)OrnithologicalPropaganda:TheFourteenthCentury
DenigrationofDominicans,PolitischeReflexioninderWeltdes
sptenMittelalters,ed.M.Kaufhold(Leiden,2004),17191.
48.)PoetryofGertrudKantorowicz:Between`DieBltter
frdieKunstundTheresienstadt,GeorgeJahrbuch,5
(2004/2005),98109.
49.)MedievalMillenarianismandViolence,Paceeguerra
nelbassomedioevo:AttidelXLConvegonstoricointernazionale,
Todi,1214ottobre2003(Spoleto,2004),3752.
50.)TheVocationoftheFriarsPreacher:HughofSt.Cher
BetweenPetertheChanterandAlberttheGreat,HuguesdeSaint
Cher(1263),biblisteetthologien,ed.L.J.Bataillon,etal.
(Turnout,2004),21531.
51.)TheJerusalemRumors:TheEarliestStageofthe
MasterofRhodesLetterontheBirthofAntichrist,withJ.
Roussanov,Rivistadistoriadelcristianesimo,2(2005),15772.
52.)ConversationsWithGeorgeKennan,Historically
Speaking,6,#6(July/August,2005),1113.
53.)TheJerusalemRumors:AnAddendum,Rivistadistoria
delcristianesimo,3(2006),54143.
54.)ReceptionofProphecyinBologna:TheVisiofratris
JohannisinaHearingof1299,RivistadistoriadellaChiesain
Italia,61(2007),6774.
D. Reviews
Overeightyfivebookreviewsinjournalsincluding:
AmericanHistoricalReviewCatholicHistoricalReviewCentral
EuropeanHistoryDeutschesArchivfrErforschungdes
MittelaltersHeresisJournalofEcclesiasticalHistoryJournal
ofInterdisciplinaryHistoryQuellenundForschungenaus
italienischenArchivenundBibliothekenSpeculumStudiesinthe
AgeofChaucerStudiesinReligionTimesLiterarySupplement
TwentyentriesinDictionaryoftheMiddleAgeseight
entriesinDictionnaired'histoireetdegographie
ecclsiastiquestwoentriesinTheologischeRealencyklopdie.

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E.SelectedRecentRecognitions
Invitedreviewerforbooksonmedievalhistoryandreligion
forTheTimesLiterarySupplement.
Invitedkeynotespeaker,conferenceonInSearchofthe
SecretGermany,QueensCollege,Cambridge,March2002.
InvitedbestowerofChristopherLaschprizeforNatalie
ZemonDavis,TheHistoricalSocietyConference,May2002.
Invitedspeaker,internationalconferenceonPolitisches
DenkenderScholastik,Heidelberg,July2003(oneofthree
AmericanparticipantspaperdeliveredinGerman).
Invitedspeaker,conferenceonPaceeguerranelbasso
medioevo,AccademiaTudertina,Todi,October2003(onlynon
ItalianparticipantpaperdeliveredinItalian).
Invitedspeaker,InstitutdhistoiredeNeuchtel,December
2003(paperdeliveredinFrench)
Mybook,TheFeastofSaintAbraham,wasthesubjectofa
roundtablediscussionatthemeetingofAmericanSocietyfor
ChurchHistory,Washington,D.C.,January2004.
InvitedplenarysessionpanelistonWesternCivilization
course,togetherwithHannaHolbornGray,TheHistoricalSociety
Conference,June2004.
Invitedseminarseries(inFrench),EcoledesHautes
EtudesenSciencesSociales,Paris,winter,2005.
Invitedplenaryspeaker,conferenceonOutlaws,Outcasts,
andHereticsintheMiddleAges,UniversityoftheSouth,April,
2005.
InvitedPresidentsLecturer,UniversityofVermont,
September,2005.
Invitedspeaker,internationalconferenceonKnowledge,
DisciplineandPower,Sheffield,September2006(oneoftwo
Americanparticipants)
Invitedspeaker,internationalconferenceonUtopieset
vivreautrementauMoyenge,Balaguer(Catalonia),July2007
(onlyAmericanparticipant)