Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Department of English (1986)
Visiting Scholar, École des Hautes Études, Paris, Latin Seminar (summer, 1975)
Fulbright Scholar, Universität Tübingen (Germany), English and German Departments (1973-1974)
M.A. (English and Creative Writing) University of Chicago, Department of English (1972)
B.A. with Honors, University of Cincinnati (1970),
Major: English
Director, NEH Summer Seminars for College and University Teachers on "The Seven Deadly Sins as Cultural Constructions in the Middle Ages" at Darwin College, Cambridge University, July 17 - August 18, 2006; at Darwin College, Cambridge University, July 12 - August 13, 2004
Distinguished Scholarship, Research or Creative Work or Activity Award, Trinity University, May, 2004
Visiting Distinguished Professor, Department of History, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen: summer, 2002
Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England: September, 2000 - August, 2001
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship: June, 2000 - June, 2001
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies, Senior Level Fellow: August, 1999 - August, 2000
Fellow, National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina), through the Lilly Endowment: September, 1999 - May, 2000
NEH Summer Stipends: 1999, 1992
Visiting Fellow, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University (Budapest, Hungary): spring session, 1999
American Philosophical Society Research Grant: summer, 1995
Residence at Maison Suger, Paris: summer, 1995
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, St. Louis University: October, 1994
Trinity University
Research Travel Grants from the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft": 1989-1990, 1986-1987
Included in Who's Who Among America's Teachers: 8th ed. (2003-04)
Included in Who’s Who in the South and Southwest: 25th ed. (1997-98), 24th ed. (1995-96)
Included in Who’s Who in the World: 13th ed. (1995-96), 12th ed. (1994-95), 11th ed. (1993-94), 10th ed. (1992-93)
Included in Dictionary of International Biography: 23rd ed. (1993-94), 22nd ed. (1992-93)
Third Prize, International Hans Christian Andersen Musical Competition, Odense, Denmark: 1980 (libretto)
University of Pennsylvania
Fulbright Full Student Grant to Germany: 1973-1974
University of Chicago
University of Cincinnati
History of Science Society; Medieval Academy of America; New
Chaucer Society; Early English Text Society; International Arthurian
Society, North American Branch; Mediävistenverband (Medieval
Academy of Germany); Wolfram von Eschenbach Gesellschaft; International
Medieval Sermon Studies Society; Modern Language Association of
America
Professor, Department of English, Trinity University, 1996-
Associate Professor, Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas), 1990-1995; tenured 1993
Assistant Professor ("Hochschulassistent"), Universität Tübingen, 1986-1990
Faculty Research Associate, Universität Tübingen, 1980-1986
Instructor and Research Coordinator, Universität Augsburg, 1979-1980
Teaching Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 1978-1979
Instructor, Rutgers University, Camden Campus, College of Arts and Sciences, 1977-1979
Tutor for Middle English, Universität Tübingen, 1975-1976
Instructor, University of Cincinnati, 1971
President, Texas Medieval Association, 2001-2002
Director of series: "Lectures on Medieval Judaism at Trinity University," 1996-present
Chair, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Committee, Trinity University, 1991-present
Visiting Scholars Coordinator in the project, "Visiting Scholars in North America," for the Committee on Centers and Regional Associations of the The Medieval Academy of America, 1991-2004
Local Coordinator, Annual meeting of the Committee on Centers and Regional Associations of the The Medieval Academy of America, September 26-27, 1997
Local Coordinator, Eighth International Conference of the Texas Medieval Association at Trinity University, September 17-19, 1998; Fifth International Conference of the Texas Medieval Association at Trinity University, September 6-9, 1995
Organizer, Conference on "Poetry and Preaching in the Late Middle Ages," Trinity University, September 11-14, 1993
Chair, Lecturers and Visiting Scholars Committee, Trinity University,
2002-present, 1992-94
Doctoral Thesis Proposal Evaluator, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, June, 2006.
Manuscript Evaluator for the Medieval Institute Press, Kalamazoo, MI: June, 2005; October, 2004; Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Press, Toronto, Canada: March, 2001; American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA: September, 2004; August, 1999
Manuscript Evaluator for The Chaucer Review: 2005-2006
Fellowship Assessor for The Leverhulme Trust (England), January, 2001
Proposal Evaluator for the Council for the Humanities of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, October, 2000
Outside Evaluator, Promotion Review Process, Department of English, Pomona College, June, 2006; Department of History, University of Alberta, September, 2004; Department of History, Whitman College, October, 2002; Department of English, Kent State University, September, 2000
Reader, Fellowship Applications to the National Humanities Center, 1999-present
Member, Program Committee, annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Austin, TX, April 13-15, 2000
Organizer, session on "Constructing Morality in Late-Medieval England," biannual conference of The New Chaucer Society, New York, NY, July, 2006; session on "Opening the Borders of (Im)morality: Vices as Virtues, Virtues as Vices," annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Miami Beach, FL, March 31-April 2, 2005; three sessions on "The Vices as Cultural Constructions," 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2005; session on "Moral Chaucer," MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA, December 27-December 30, 2004; session on "The Vices and the Borders of Morality," annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Austin, TX, April 13-15, 2000
Member, Editorial Board of Arthuriana, journal of the International Arthurian Society – North American Branch, 1997-2000
Participant, "Technology and Course Design in the Arts and Humanities," ACS-Mellon Sponsored Project, Birmingham-Southern College, June 21-25, 1998
Faculty Advisor, Student Medieval Group, Trinity University, 1991-present
Outside Evaluator, Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada, 1996
Outside Evaluator, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Ottawa, 1993-94
Director, Honors Theses, Trinity University, 1992-94
Director, M.A. Theses, Universität Tübingen, 1988-90
Director, Student Medieval Drama Group, Universität Augsburg,
1979-80
Hebrew - reading knowledge for scholarship, some spoken fluency
Ancient Greek - reading knowledge for scholarship
Latin - command necessary for editorial work
French - command of medieval stages, reading knowledge, some spoken fluency
Italian - reading knowledge for scholarship
Spanish - reading knowledge for scholarship
German - command of medieval stages, fluent in modern German
Welsh - reading knowledge for scholarship
of medieval Welsh
| Beowulf | Introduction to Old English |
| Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales | Jews in Medieval Europe |
| Chaucer’s Troilus | King Arthur in English Literature |
| Creative Writing: Poetry | Medieval English Philology |
| Culture & Creativity | Medieval Imagination |
| Curiosity and Medieval Literature | Medieval Masterpieces |
| Deadly Sins in Western Culture | Medieval Narrative and Chaucer |
| English Moralities & Mystery Plays | Middle English Political Poetry |
| Freshman Composition | Old English Heroic Literature |
| Gower’s Confessio Amantis | Old English Saints’ Lives |
| History of the English Language | Short Fiction |
| Introduction to Middle English | Sin & Social Revolt in ME Lit. |
| Introduction to the Novel | Survey of English Literature |
| Introduction to OE-ME Philology | Works of the Gawain-Poet |
Towards a Revised Incipitarium: Corrections,
Supplements, Deletions, and Additions to Update Morton Bloomfield
et al., Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices.
Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols,
2007. [co-author with István P. Bejczy]. Forthcoming.
Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the
Western Middle Ages. Variorum Collected Studies Series,
CS869. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2007. [reproduction
of 14 essays published originally between 1982 and 2001, with
one new essay]. Forthcoming. ISBN 978-0-86078-973-4.
The Early History of Greed: The Sin of Avarice
in Early Medieval Thought and Literature. Cambridge Studies
in Medieval Literature, vol. 41. Cambridge, England: Cambridge
University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 246. Digital paperback reprint:
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-521-38522-9.
Paperback reprint: Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press,
2006. ISBN 0-521-026482.
A Catalogue of Latin Texts with Material
on the Vices and Virtues in Manuscripts in Hungary. GRATIA:
Bamberger Schriften zur Renaissanceforschung, vol. 29. Wiesbaden,
Germany: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1996. Pp. xii, 125. ISBN 3-447-03815-2.
The Treatise on Vices and Virtues in Latin
and the Vernacular. Typologie des sources du moyen âge
occidental, vol. 68. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1993. Pp. viii,
205; 3 color illustrations. ISBN 2-503-36068-8.
Editor. Petri Lemovicensis Tractatus moralis
de oculo. Under contract for the series: Corpus Christianorum,
Continuatio Mediaevalis. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols
Field-editor. The Chaucer Encyclopedia.
Gen. eds. P. Ruggiers and D.J. Ransom. Under contract with: New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Editor. The Seven Deadly Sins: From Communities
to Individuals. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions:
History, Culture, Religion, Ideas, vol. 123. Leiden, Boston: Brill,
2007. Pp. xii, 308; 14 illustrations. ISBN 90-04-15785-9.
Co-Editor, with István Bejczy. Virtue
and Ethics in the Twelfth Century. Brill's Studies in
Intellectual History, vol. 130. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. vi, 393.
ISBN 90-04-14327-0.
Editor. In the Garden of Evil: The Vices
and Culture in the Middle Ages. Papers in Mediaeval Studies,
vol. 18. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Press,
2005. Pp. xxiv, 568; 22 illustrations. ISBN 0-88844-818-X.
General Editor. "Lectures on Medieval Judaism
at Trinity University: Occasional Papers." Vol. 1-. Kalamazoo,
MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1996-. [three volumes published;
one in preparation]
Co-Editor, with J.A. Alford. Literature and
Religion in the Later Middle Ages: Philological Studies
in Honor of Siegfried Wenzel. Medieval & Renaissance Texts
& Studies, vol. 118. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance
Texts & Studies, 1995. Pp. ix, 414. ISBN 0-86698-172-1.
"The Capital Vices as Medieval Anthropology,"
in: Ch. Flüeler and M. Rohde, eds., Laster im Mittelalter.
Freiburger Kolloquium vom 20. bis 22. Februar 2006 (Fribourg,
CH), forthcoming.
"Religious Writing: Hagiography, Pastoralia,
Devotional and Contemplative Works," in: L. Scanlon, ed.,
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature
(Cambridge, England), forthcoming.
"On Ambiguity in Moral Theology: When the
Vices Masquerade as Virtues," trans. Andrea Nemeth-Newhauser,
in: R. Newhauser, Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in
the Western Middle Ages, Variorum Collected Studies Series
(Aldershot, 2007), forthcoming.
"Introduction: Cultural Construction and the
Vices," in: R. Newhauser, ed., The Seven Deadly Sins:
From Communities to Individuals, Studies in Medieval and
Reformation Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas (Leiden,
Boston, 2007), 1-17.
"Justice and Liberality: Opposition to Avarice
in the Twelfth Century," in: István Bejczy and R.
Newhauser, eds., Virtue and Ethics in the Twelfth Century,
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 130 (Leiden, 2005), 295-316.
"Introduction," in: R. Newhauser, ed.,
In the Garden of Evil: The Vices and Culture in the Middle
Ages, Papers in Mediaeval Studies 18 (Toronto, 2005),
vii-xix.
"Avaritia and Paupertas: On
the Place of the Early Franciscans in the History of Avarice,"
in: R. Newhauser, ed., In the Garden of Evil: The Vices
and Culture in the Middle Ages, Papers in
Mediaeval Studies 18 (Toronto, 2005), 324-48.
"Visuality and Moral Culture in the Late Middle
Ages: The Emblematic Conflictus and its Literary Representatives,
the Etymachia, Qui vicerit dabo, and In campo
mundi," in: R. Newhauser, ed., In the Garden of
Evil: The Vices and Culture in the Middle Ages, Papers
in Mediaeval Studies 18 (Toronto, 2005), 234-76 [co-author, with
Nigel Harris]
"Avarice and the Apocalypse," in: R.
Landes, A. Gow, and D. Van Meter, eds., The Apocalyptic
Year 1000: Religious Expectation and Social Change, 950-1050 (Oxford,
2003), pp. 109-19.
"The Parson's Tale," in: R.M. Correale
and M. Hamel, eds., Sources and Analogues of The Canterbury
Tales I, Chaucer Studies 28 (Cambridge, Eng., 2002), pp.
529-613.
"Zur Zweideutigkeit in der Moraltheologie.
Als Tugenden verkleidete Laster," in: P. von Moos, ed., Der
Fehltritt. Vergehen und Versehen in der Vormoderne, Norm
und Struktur 15 (Köln, Weimar, Wien, 2001), pp. 377-402 [in
German].
"Avaritia und Paupertas: zur
Stellung der frühen Franziskaner in der Geschichte der Habsucht,"
in: G. Melville and A. Kehnel, eds., In proposito paupertatis.
Studien zum Armutsverständnis bei den mittelalterlichen Bettelorden,
Vita regularis 13 (Münster, 2001), pp. 31-49 [in
German].
"Inter scientiam et populum: Roger
Bacon, Peter of Limoges, and the 'Tractatus moralis de oculo,'"
in: J.A. Aertsen, K. Emery, Jr., and A. Speer, eds., Nach
der Verurteilung von 1277. Philosophie und Theologie an der Universität
von Paris im letzten Viertel des 13. Jahrhunderts. Studien und
Texte / After the Condemnations of 1277. Philosophy and Theology
at the University of Paris in the Last Quarter of the Thirteenth
Century. Studies and Texts, Miscellanea Mediaevalia 28
(Berlin, New York, 2001), pp. 682-703.
"Historicity and Complaint in Song of the
Husbandman," in: S. Fein, ed., Studies in the Harley
Manuscript: The Scribes, Contents, and Social Contexts of British
Library MS Harley 2253, TEAMS (Kalamazoo, MI, 2000), pp.
203-17.
"The Parson’s Tale and Its Generic Affiliations,"
in: D. Raybin and L.T. Holley, eds., Closure in The Canterbury
Tales: The Role of The Parson’s Tale, Studies in
Medieval Culture 41 (Kalamazoo, MI, 2000), pp. 45-76.
"Jesus as the First Dominican? Reflections
on a Sub-theme in the Exemplary Literature of Some Thirteenth-Century
Preachers," in: K. Emery, Jr. and J. Wawrykow, eds., Christ
Among the Medieval Dominicans: Representations of Christ in the
Texts and Images of the Order of Preachers, Notre Dame
Conferences in Medieval Studies 7 (Notre Dame, London, 1998),
pp. 238-55.
"Sources II: Scriptural and Devotional Sources,"
in: D. Brewer and J. Gibson, eds., Companion to the Gawain-Poet
(Woodbridge, England, 1997), pp. 253-71.
"The Treatise on Vices and Virtues as a Medieval
Genre and Its Structural Foundations in the Classical Tradition,"
in: B. Carlos Bazán et al., eds., Les philosophies
morales et politiques au Moyen Âge/Moral and Political Philosophies
in the Middle Ages, Proceedings of the Ninth International
Congress of Medieval Philosophy (Ottawa, 17-22 August 1992), Publications
du Laboratoire de la pensée ancienne et médiévale,
Université d’Ottawa, I,1 (Ottawa, Canada, 1995), vol.
1, pp. 420-28.
"Nature’s moral eye: Peter of Limoges’
Tractatus moralis de oculo," in: S.J. Ridyard and
R.G. Benson, eds., Man and Nature in the Middle Ages,
Sewanee Mediaeval Studies 6 (Sewanee, TN, 1995), pp. 125-36.
"‘Strong it is to flitte:’ A Middle
English Poem on Death and Its Pastoral Context," in: R.G.
Newhauser and J.A. Alford, eds., Literature and Religion
in the Later Middle Ages: Philological Studies in Honor
of Siegfried Wenzel, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies
118 (Binghamton, NY, 1995), pp. 319-336.
"alle sunde hant vnterschidunge: Der
Tugend- und Lastertraktat als literarische Gattung im Mittelalter,"
in: J. Janota et al., eds., Festschrift Walter Haug und
Burghart Wachinger (Tübingen, Germany, 1992), vol.
1, pp. 287-303 [in German].
"Aspects of the Development of the Imperative
in Early Modern English," in: R. Tracy et al., eds., Who
Climbs the Grammar-Tree (Festschrift for D.A. Reibel on
the Occasion of his 60th Birthday), Linguistische Arbeiten 281
(Tübingen, Germany, 1992), pp. 93-106 [co-author with Andrea
Németh-Newhauser].
"Der ‘Tractatus moralis de oculo’
des Petrus von Limoges und seine exempla," in: W.
Haug and B. Wachinger, eds., Exempel und Exempelsammlungen,
Fortuna vitrea 2 (Tübingen, Germany, 1991), pp. 95-136 [in
German].
"Court Festivities in Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight: Paradigm and Transformation," in: D. Altenburg
et al., eds., Feste und Feiern im Mittelalter. Paderborner
Symposion des Mediävistenverbandes (Sigmaringen,
Germany, 1991), pp. 461-468.
"From Treatise to Sermon: Johannes Herolt
on the novem peccata aliena," in: T.L. Amos et al.,
eds., De ore domini: Preacher and Word in the Middle Ages,
Medieval Institute Publications. Studies in Medieval Culture 27
(Kalamazoo, MI, 1989), pp. 185-209.
"Augustinian Vitium curiositatis and
its Reception," in: E.B. King and J.T. Schaefer, eds.,
Saint Augustine and his Influence in the Middle Ages, Sewanee
Mediaeval Studies 3 (Sewanee, TN, 1988), pp. 99-124.
"The Sin of Curiosity and the Cistercians,"
in: J.R. Sommerfeldt, ed., Erudition at God’s Service,
Studies in Medieval Cistercian History 11, Cistercian Studies
Series 98 (Kalamazoo, MI, 1987), pp. 71-95.
"The Love of Money as Deadly Sin and Deadly
Disease," in: J.O. Fichte et al., eds., Zusammenhänge,
Einflüsse, Wirkungen. Kongressakten zum ersten Symposium
des Mediävistenverbandes in Tübingen, 1984 (Berlin,
New York, 1986), pp. 315-326.
Fourteen articles on: "Bruges," "Chaldea,"
"Hermus," "Lydia," "Mediterranean Sea,"
"Nineveh," "Orcades," "Persia,"
"Samaria," "Scotland," "Serien,"
"Sicily," "Sinai," "Ypres," forthcoming
in: P. Ruggiers and D.J. Ransom, eds., The Chaucer Encyclopedia
(contracted volume, New Haven).
Fifty-three articles as co-author on: "Boulogne,"
"Cithaeron," "Cologne," "Corinth,"
"Cyprus," "Ethiopia," "Etna," "Euphrates,"
"Europe," "Gotland," "Horeb," "India,"
"Indus," "Jaconitos," "Jerusalem,"
"Kayrrud," "Lacedaemon," "Lincoln,"
"Libya," "Lithuania," "Lombardy,"
"Macedonia," "Medes," "Mercenrike,"
"Messene," "Middelburg," "Milan,"
"Miletus," "Palmyra," "Paris," "Pavia,"
"Penmarch," "Portugal," "Prussia,"
"Red Sea," "Rhodope," "Rome," "Russia,"
"Saluzzo," "Sarai," "Scythia," "Simois,"
"Syria," "Tars," "Tartary," "Thebes-2,"
"Thessaly," "Thule," "Tramyssene,"
"Tunis," "Tyre," "Venice," "Verona,"
forthcoming in: P. Ruggiers and D.J. Ransom, eds., The Chaucer
Encyclopedia (contracted volume, New Haven).
"Virtues and Vices," in: William Chester
Jordan, ed., Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Supplement 1
(New York, 2004), pp. 628-33.
Two articles on: "Jerusalem" and "Jewish
Travelers," in: J.B. Friedman and K.M. Figg, eds., Trade,
Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia,
Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 1899 (New York, 2000),
pp. 300-02, 303-04.
Two articles on: "Tugenden und Laster, Tugend-
und Lasterkataloge (Englische Literatur)" in: Lexikon
des Mittelalters, vol. 8 (München, Germany,
1996), col. 1088; "Predigt (mittelenglisch)," vol. 7
(1994), cols. 179-80 [in German].
"The Work of an English Scribe in a Manuscript
in Estonia," Scriptorium, forthcoming [co-author
with Tiina Kala and Meelis Friedenthal].
"Two Newly Discovered Abbreviations of Simon
of Hinton's Summa Iuniorum, Concentrating on the Virtues
and Vices," Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum
75 (2005), 95-144 [co-author, with István P. Bejczy].
"A Middle English Poem on the Fleeting Nature
of Material Wealth," Medium Ævum 71,1
(2002), 74-81.
"The Meaning of Gawain’s Greed,"
Studies in Philology 87,4 (1990), 410-426.
"A la redécouverte de Willem Jordaens,"
Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique 84,2
(1989), 371-379 [review article of Alf Önnerfors, ed., Willem
Jordaens Conflictus virtutum et viciorum, Abhandlungen der
Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 74 (Opladen,
1986) and Lawrence J. Johnson, ed., Wilhelm Jordaens’s
Avellana: A Fourteenth-Century Virtue-Vice Debate, Speculum
Anniversary Monographs 9 (Cambridge, Mass., 1985)] (in French).
"Towards modus in habendo: Transformations
in the Idea of Avarice. The Early Penitentials through the Carolingian
Reforms," Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für
Rechtsgeschichte 106, Kanonistische Abteilung 75 (1989),
1-22.
"Latin Texts with Material on the Virtues
and Vices in Manuscripts in Hungary: Catalogue II," Manuscripta
33,1 (1989), 3-14.
"Latin Texts with Material on the Virtues
and Vices in Manuscripts in Hungary: Catalogue I," Manuscripta
31,2 (1987), 102-115.
"Patristic Poggio? The Evidence of Gyõr,
Egyházmegyei Könyvtár MS. I.4," Rinascimento
26 (1986), 231-239.
"Towards a History of Human Curiosity: A Prolegomenon
to its Medieval Phase," Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift
56 (1982), 559-575.
"The Text of Galand of Reigny’s ‘De
Colloquio Vitiorum’ from his ‘Parabolarium’,"
Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 17 (1982), 108-119.
"The Merlini Allegoria in English,"
English Literary Renaissance 10,1 (1980), 120-132.
"A Note on Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys,"
The Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 28,4
(1980), 612.
Anne M. Scott, Piers Plowman and the Poor
(Dublin, 2004), forthcoming in: Speculum.
Gunther Bös, Curiositas. Die Rezeption
eines antiken Begriffes durch christliche Autoren bis Thomas von
Aquin (Paderborn, etc., 1995), forthcoming in: Revue
d’Histoire Ecclésiastique.
Sven Grosse, Heilsungewißheit und Scrupulositas
im späten Mittelalter, Beiträge zur historischen
Theologie, vol. 85 (Tübingen, Germany, 1994), forthcoming
in: Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique.
James McEvoy, Robert Grosseteste, Exegete and
Philosopher, Variorum Collected Studies Series, vol. CS 446
(Aldershot, England; Brookfield, VT, 1994), forthcoming in: Revue
d’Histoire Ecclésiastique.
Susanne Blöcker, Studien zur Ikonographie
der sieben Todsünden in der niederländischen und deutschen
Malerei und Graphik von 1450-1560, Bonner Studien zur Kunstgeschichte,
8 (Hamburg, 1993), forthcoming in: Revue d’Histoire
Ecclésiastique.
Peter Bauer, From Subsistence to Exchange and Other
Essays. With an Introduction by Amartya Sen (Princeton, 2000),
in: Common Knowledge 9,1 (2003), 165.
F.N.M. Diekstra, ed., Book for a Simple and
Devout Woman. A Late Middle English Adaptation of Peraldus's Summa
de Vitiis et Virtutibus and Friar Laurent's Somme le Roi, edited
from British Library Mss Harley 6571 and Additional 30944,
Mediaevalia Groningana, 24. (Groningen, 1998), in: JEGP
101,2 (2002), 250-53.
Elias of Thriplow, Serium senectutis, edited
and translated by Roger Hillas, Medieval & Renaissance Texts
& Studies, volume 116 (Binghamton, NY, 1995), in: Speculum
76,4 (2001), 1033-35.
Helen Cooper, Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The
Canterbury Tales, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1996), in: JEGP
97,3 (1998), 416-18.
Lesley Smith, trans., Medieval Exegesis in Translation:
Commentaries on the Book of Ruth, (with an Introduction and
Notes) (Kalamazoo, MI, 1996), in: Arthuriana 8,3
(1998), 84-85.
Thomas Honegger, From Phoenix to Chauntecleer:
Medieval English Animal Poetry (Tübingen, Basil, 1996),
in: Studies in the Age of Chaucer 19 (1997), 255-58.
Mary A. Rouse and Richard H. Rouse, Authentic
Witnesses: Approaches to Medieval Texts and Manuscripts (Notre
Dame, IN, 1991), in: Libraries & Culture 30,1
(1995), 115-17.
Walter S. Phelan, The Christmas Hero and Yuletide
Tradition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Lewiston, Queenston,
Lampeter, 1992), in: Studies in the Age of Chaucer 16 (1994),
245-248.
Siegfried Wenzel, ed. and trans., Summa virtutum
de remediis anime, The Chaucer Library (Athens, GA, 1984)
in: Speculum 62,3 (1987), 750-752.
Morton W. Bloomfield et al., Incipits of Latin
Works on the Virtues and Vices, 1100-1500 A.D., The Mediaeval
Academy of America, Publication 88 (Cambridge, MA, 1979) in: Mittellateinisches
Jahrbuch 16 (1981), 340-343.
Producer and Host, "A Poetry Journal,"
KRTU radio (91.7 FM) (aired once per month, 10,
1998-5, 1999); KPOZ radio (1310 AM) (aired once
per month, 6-8, 1998)
Poems in Sofer (1998), EXEMPLA
(1974), The Little Magazine (1972).
The Tinderbox: Libretto for a Children’s
Musical based on the Fairy Tale by Hans Christian Andersen (1980).
Stories (in German) in EXEMPLA (1975).
Poetry readings: Third Annual University of
Mary Hardin-Baylor Literary Festival (January 7-9, 1999);
Gemini Ink, San Antonio, TX (December 4, 1998 – together
with Steven Kellman, Phillip Lopate, and Susan McAfee Monday).
Interview for the broadcast on "Greed"
with the radio program "Encounter," Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, to be aired in September, 2005; available
at www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/enc/default.htm
"Hungary’s Jewish Community Shows New
Vitality," The Jewish Journal of San Antonio
16,3 (August, 1990), 24.
"’The Past is Never Gone, It is Not Even
Past’: Jews in the Federal Republic of Germany," Explorations
[Princeton, N.J.] 2,3 (summer, 1988), 3.
"Sinful Continuities: The Seven Vices - Medieval
to Early-Modern," plenary lecture at the 2007 Sewanee Medieval
Colloquium (invited presentation, March 30-31, 2007).
" 'The Miller's Tale': Sinful Curiosity and
Anti-Intellectualism," English Department, Arizona State
University, Tempe (invited lecture, March 1, 2007).
"Conflicting Faith: John, Nicholas, and the
Sin of Curiosity in 'The Miller's Tale,' " at the Medieval
Graduate Doctoral Conference, Department of English, Harvard University
(invited lecture, February 22, 2007).
"The Seven Deadly Sins: Past and Present,"
Darwin College, University of Cambridge (invited lecture, August
10, 2006).
"Editing Peter of Limoges," at the University
of Tartu, Estonia (invited lecture, May 12, 2006).
"Preaching the 'Contrary Virtues,' "
at the conference on "Preaching the Virtues in the Middle
Ages (13th-15th Centuries)," Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen
(invited conference, April 20-21, 2006).
"Die sieben Todsünden als mittelalterliche
Anthropologie," at the Freiburger Colloquium 2006: "Laster
im Mittelalter," University of Fribourg, Switzerland (invited
conference, February 20-24, 2006).
"Curiosity, Anti-Intellectualism in The Miller's
Tale, and the Legacy of Thales," keynote address at the Graduate
Conference in History and Classics, University of Alberta, March,
2005.
"Justice and Liberality: Opposition to Avarice
in the Twelfth Century," at the conference on "Virtue
and Ethics in the Twelfth Century," Katholieke Universiteit
Nijmegen (invited conference, September 5-6, 2003).
"The Treatise on Vices and Virtues, Chaucer's
'Parson's Tale,' and Middle English Works on the Seven Deadly
Sins," at the conference on "Revisiting Chaucer and
Christianity," International Study Center, Canterbury Cathedral
(invited conference, July 21-23, 2003).
"Curiosity in the Dung Heap: Geoffrey Chaucer's
'Miller's Tale' and Anti-Intellectualism," Departments of
History and English, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (invited
lecture, July 2, 2002)
"Justifying Wealth, Marginalizing Poverty:
Avarice and the Early Franciscans," Department of English,
University of Oklahoma (invited lecture, March 11, 2002).
"Avarice and Poverty: On the Place of the
Early Franciscans in the History of Avarice," Washington
and Lee University (invited lecture, January 24, 2002)
"Curiosity's Fall: The Miller's Tale and Anti-Intellectualism,"
Presidential Address at the Eleventh International Conference
of the Texas Medieval Association at Trinity University, September
1, 2001
"Peter of Limoges and the Transmission of
the Tractatus moralis de oculo," Cambridge University, Faculty
of Classics, Latin Seminar (invited lecture, June 11, 2001)
"On Ambiguity in Moral Theology: When Vices
are Disguised as Virtues," at the University of Wisconsin
- Madison, sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program and the Department
of English (invited lecture, March 5, 2001)
"Avaritia and Paupertas: The Place of the
Franciscans in the History of Avarice," at the University
of Swansea, History Department (invited lecture, February 21,
2001)
"Vices Disguised as Virtues: On the Ambiguity
of Moral Concepts," at the University of Birmingham, England,
Graduate Medievalists' Group (invited lecture, December 6, 2000)
"On Ambiguity in Moral Theology," at
the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King's College,
University of London, Graduate Seminar in Medieval Philosophy
and Theology (invited lecture, November 29, 2000)
"Roger Bacon and Peter of Limoges: On the
Uses of Optics in Moral Discourse (De oculo morali)," Medieval
and Renaissance Studies Program, University of South Carolina
(invited lecture, May 1, 2000).
"Vice and Virtue in an Age of Opulence,"
at "Reason and Virtue in an Age of Opulence," First
Annual Conference of the Gerst Program in Political, Economic,
and Humanistic Studies, Duke University (invited conference, April
28-29, 2000).
"Soaring Eagles or Safety in the Herd: Anchoritic
and Cenobitic Authors on Greed," at "Out of the Desert:
Dry Places in History and the Imagination," Symposium sponsored
by The Claremont Consortium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
and The Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate
University (invited conference, February 24-26, 2000).
"Curiosity's Fall: The Miller's Tale and Anti-Intellectualism,"
at the 20th annual meeting of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association,
Philadelphia (invited plenary lecture, February 5, 2000).
"Towards a History of Greed," University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (invited presentation, 1999)
"Vices Disguised as Virtues: On the Ambiguity
of Moral Theology as Social Communication," at "Der
Fehltritt und die Diskurse über menschliche Interaktionskompetenz,"
Luzern, Switzerland (invited conference, September 30-October
2, 1999)
"Inter scientiam et populum: Peter
of Limoges and the Negotiations of moralia," at "After
the Condemnations of 1277 - The University of Paris in the Last
Quarter of the Thirteenth Century," Tübingen, Germany,
sponsored by the TransCoop Initiative, University of Cologne and
University of Notre Dame (invited conference, May, 1999)
"Pecia manuscripts and the Transmission
of Peter of Limoges' Tractatus moralis de oculo," Department
of Medieval Studies, Central European University (invited lecture,
1999)
"Historicity and Complaint in the 'Song of
the Husbandman,'" at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern
Language Association, St. Louis, MO, November 5-7, 1998 (invited
participant)
"Medieval Studies in the Undergraduate Curriculum:
A Liberal Arts Perspective," College of Arts and Sciences
and Honors College, University of Oklahoma (invited presentation,
1998)
"Pecia manuscripts and the Transmission
of Peter of Limoges’ Tractatus moralis de oculo,"
University of Oklahoma (invited lecture, 1998)
"Medieval Studies and the Database of Visiting
Medievalists to North America," CARA meeting, University
of Pennsylvania (invited conference, 1998); University of Toronto
(invited conference, 1993); Stanford University (invited conference,
1992)
"Christians–Avarice–Jews: Conceptions
of Greed in Twelfth-Century Europe," at "In the Shadow
of the Millennium: Jews and Christians in Twelfth-Century Europe,"
University of Notre Dame (invited conference, 1996)
"Avarice and the Apocalypse," at "The
Apocalyptic Year 1000: Religious Expectations and Social Change
in Western Europe, 968-1033," Boston University (invited
conference, 1996)
"Jesus as a Literary Figure of Authority in
Dominican exempla," at "Christ Among the Medieval
Dominicans," University of Notre Dame (invited conference,
1995)
"Biblical and Devotional Sources of the Gawain-Poet,"
University of Trier, Germany, sponsored by the Departments of
German and English (invited lecture, 1995)
"Chaucer’s ‘Miller’s Tale’
and the Idiom of Moral Discourse," University of Tübingen,
Germany, Department of English (invited lecture, 1995)
"Towards a Future Exegesis: Chaucer’s
‘Miller’s Tale,’" University of Zürich,
Switzerland, Department of English (invited lecture, 1995)
"Chaucer’s Tale of Misplaced Curiosity,"
University of Mannheim, Germany, Department of English (invited
lecture, 1995)
"Greed and the Rabbis," University of
Texas, Austin, Hebrew Studies Program (invited lecture, 1992)
"Ascetic Transformations in Avarice: The Latin
West in the 4th and 5th Centuries," University of Texas,
Austin, Medieval Studies Series (invited lecture, 1991)
"Medieval Studies at Trinity University,"
CARA meeting, Newberry Library, Chicago (invited conference, 1991)
"alle sunde hant vnterschidunge: Der
Tugend- und Lastertraktat als literarische Gattung im Mittelalter,"
University of Trier, Germany, German Department (invited lecture,
1990)
"Der ‘Tractatus moralis de oculo’
des Petrus von Limoges und seine exempla," at "Exempel
und Exempelsammlungen," Schloß Reisensburg bei Günzburg,
Germany (invited conference, 1989)
"The Meaning of Gawain’s Greed,"
University of Missouri, Columbia, Department of English (invited
lecture, 1986)