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Thomas Head
 

Academic Affiliation: Hunter College
Office phone: (212) 772-5484
E-Mail:thead@hunter.cuny.edu

Field of Scholarship

European and Medieval History

Selected Publications

Soldiers of Christ:  Saints' Lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.

University Park, PA:  Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.  Co-editor with Thomas

Noble.

Midieval Hagiography:  An Anthology.  New York:  Garland Press, forthcoming in 1998.

Sole editor.

Sexuality and Sanctity:  Tales from the Age of Chivalry.  Co-editor with Bruce Venarde.

A Detailed prospectus, with sample chapters, of this collection of translated texts has been submitted to the university of Pennsylvania Press and Cornell University Press.  It will be completed in 1998.

Sanctity and Society in the Christian West:  The Culture of Patronage, 200-1200.  A detailed prospectus of this major monograph has been circulated to several university presses.  It will be completed in 2000.

 

Articles:

"Discontinuity and Discovery in the Cult of Saints:  Apulia from Late Antiquity to the High Middle Ages."  Under review at Hagiographica.

"The Genesis of the Ordeal of Relics by Fire (C.980-c.1020)."  In Constructing Sanctity in Medieval Europe, ed.  George Ferzoco.  Under review by Cambridge University Press.

"Reading Bodies with Fire:  Sanctity, Heresy, and the Ordeal in Western Christian Society." In Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts:  Religious Expression and Social Meaning in the Middle Ages, eds. Barbara Rosenwein and Sharon Farmer (forthcoming from Cornell University Press in 1999).

"Letaldus of Micy and the Hagiographic Tradition of Nouaille:  The Context of the Delatio corporis S. Juniani," Analecta Bollandiana (forthcoming in 1998).

 
 
 
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