The Lecture will trace the past, present, and future of Professor Field's work at UVM, which is driven by an intense engagement with unique medieval manuscripts and a desire to understand fully what they tell us about issues such as power, dissent, and religious ideology that concern the modern word as much as the medieval.
Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building
Information: 656-3166
Professor Field received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2002. Since 2003 he has been a faculty member at the University of Vermont, where he teaches medieval European history and specializes in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century topics. His current research centers on the intersection of sanctity, heresy, political power, and religious institutions at and around the French royal court. He is the author or co-author of seven books, most recently The Sanctity of Louis IX: Early Lives of Saint Louis by Geoffrey of Beaulieu and William of Chartres(Cornell, 2014). Professor Field has been the recipient of Fulbright and Charlotte Newcombe fellowships, a Franklin grant from the American Philosophical Society, and a residential fellowship at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.
The College of Arts and Sciences Full Professor Lecture Series was designed to give newly promoted faculty an opportunity to share with the university community a single piece of research or overview of research trajectory meant to capture the spark of intellectual excitement that has resulted in their achieving full professor rank.