Associate Professor & Director of Honors Program; Director, Program in Medieval & Early Modern Studies
457 Hamilton Hall
B.A. University of Vermont, 1994
M.A. University of Vermont, 1998
M.A. Stanford University, 2000
Ph.D. Stanford University, 2005
M.A. University of Vermont, 1998
M.A. Stanford University, 2000
Ph.D. Stanford University, 2005
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
Brett Whalen works on Christian intellectual and cultural history during the High Middle Ages (c. 1000–1350). Among other topics, he teaches courses on the crusades, apocalyptic thought, and the medieval Roman Church. His first monograph, Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, explores the medieval belief that Christianity would spread to every corner of the earth before the end of time. He is currently working on a brief history of the medieval papacy for Palgrave MacMillan, and a second monograph on mendicant missionaries in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
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Some Notable Publications
- Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages (University of Toronto Press, 2011)
- “Corresponding with Infidels: Rome, the Almohads, and the Christians of Thirteenth-Century Morocco,” The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 41 (2011): 487–513
- Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (Harvard University Press, 2009)
- “God’s Will or Not? Bohemond’s Campaign against the Byzantine Empire (1105–1107),” in The Crusades: Medieval Worlds in Conflict. Ed. Thomas Madden, James Naus, and Vincent Ryan (Ashgate, 2010), 111–126
Graduate Students Advised by Brett Whalen
Courses Offered (as schedules allow)
For current course listings, consult the Registrar’s Schedule of Classes.
- HIST 89—Faith and Violence in the Middle Ages (First Year Seminar)
- HIST 107—Introduction to Medieval History
- HIST 177—The Apocalypse in the Christian Middle Ages (Honors Seminar)
- HIST 228—The Medieval Expansion of Europe
- HIST 391—Medieval Europe & the Crusading Experience
- HIST 431—The Medieval Church
- HIST 436—Medieval Theology and the Body
- HIST 701—Medieval Studies (Graduate Seminar)