Academic Specialization

Medieval Society and Culture, Crusades, Medieval Italy

Education

1. Ph.D., Indiana University, 1960
2. M.A., Xavier University, 1955
3. A.B., Xavier University, 1953

Teaching and Professional Appointments

1. Professor Emeritus of Medieval History, Syracuse University, 1997
2. Visiting Professor of Medieval History, Rutgers University, 1996-97
3. Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1989-90
4. Professor of Medieval History, Syracuse University, 1972-97
5. Research Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1970

Selected and Recent Publications

1. Innocent III: Vicar of Christ or Lord of the World? 2nd. ed., revised and enlarged. (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1994).
2. Albertanus of Brescia: The Pursuit of Happiness in the Early Thirteenth Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992).
3. Muslims under Latin Rule, 1100-1300 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990). Edited with essays by David Abulafia, Robert I. Burns, Benjamin Z. Kedar, Joseph O'Callaghan, and myself. I also wrote an introduction, conclusion, and chapter on "The Papacy and the Muslim Frontier."
4. Leopold von Ranke and the Shaping of the Historical Discipline. Edited with George G. Iggers (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1989). I wrote the Introduction.
5. Anatomy of a Crusade, 1213-1221 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Fall, 1986) Paperback edition, 1990, by University of Pennsylvania Press.
6. Medieval Studies: An Introduction (Syracuse University Press, 1976). Edited. New edition, revised and enlarged, 1992.
7. Liber Augustalis or Constitutions of Melfi, Promulgated by Frederick II in 1231 (Syracuse University Press, 1971). Translated with introduction and notes.
8. "Frederick II and the Muslims: The Making of an Historiographical Tradition," Iberia and the Mediterranean World of the Middle Ages (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), pp. 261-269.
9. "Frederick II, the Hohenstaufen, and the Teutonic Order inthe Kingdom of Sicily," in The Military Orders, ed. Malcolm Barber (Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1994), pp. 236-244.
10. "Economy and Society in the Kingdom of Sicily under Frederick II: Recent Perspectives," Intellectual Life at the Court of Frederick II Hohenstaufen, ed. William Tronzo (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), pp. 263-271.

Research Grants and Awards

1. Grants for research in Italy, Progetto Radici, Brescia, 1993, 1994, 1995
2. Fritz Thyssen Foundation Grant for publication of Leopold von Ranke and the Shaping of the Historical Discipline (1988)
3. John Gilmary Shea Prize, American Catholic Historical Association for Anatomy of a Crusade, 1987
4. Who's Who in America, 1987-
5. Fritz Thyssen Foundation Grant for Ranke Conference, l985
6. NEH Research Grant for Cataloging of Ranke Library: Co-Principal Investigator, 1977-1984