Book:

History, Prophecy, and the Stars:  The Christian Astrology of Pierre d'Ailly, 1350-1420.   Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press, 1994.

Refereed articles in journals and books:

 “A Case of Demonic Possession in Fifteenth-Century Brittany:  Perrin Hervé and the Nascent Cult of Vincent Ferrer,” in Michael Goodich, ed., Voices from the Bench: The Narratives of Lesser Folk in Medieval Trials (NY:  Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006).  Pp. 149-76.

 “Holy Mothers:  The History of a Designation of Spiritual Status.”  In Marc Forster and Ben Kaplan, eds., Piety and Family in Early Modern Europe:  Essays in Honour of Steven Ozment.  Aldershot, UK:  Ashgate, 2005.  Pp. 178-200. 

 “Skin Pathology and Medical Prognosis in Medieval Europe:  The Secrets of Hippocrates.” The American Journal of Dermatopathology 22, no. 6 (Dec. 2000):  550-554.

"Of Earthquakes, Hail, Frogs, and Geography:  Plague and the Investigation of the Apocalypse in the Later Middle Ages."  In Paul Freedman and Caroline Bynum, eds., Last Things:  Eschatology and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages.  Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.  Pp. 156-187. 

"The Alfonsine Tables and the End of the World:  Astrology and Apocalyptic Calculation in the Later Middle Ages."  In Alberto Ferreiro, ed., The Devil, Heresy and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages:  Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Burton Russell.  Leiden:  E. J. Brill, 1998.  Pp. 211-39. 

"Miracle, Memory, and Meaning in the Canonization of Vincent Ferrer, 1453-54."  Speculum  73(1998): 429-54.

"Defining the Boundaries of the Natural in the Fifteenth Century:  The Inquest into the Miracles of St. Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419)." Viator 28 (1997):  333-59.

"Playing Cards and Popular Culture in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg." The Sixteenth Century Journal  17 (1986):  183-214.

 Book chapters:

 “Plague and the Investigation of the Apocalypse,” in Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, ed., The Black Death.  Problems in European Civilization Series.  Boston and New York:  Houghton Mifflin, 2005.  Pp. 84-99.  [Reprinted (excerpts) from my "Of Earthquakes, Hail, Frogs, and Geography:  Plague and the Investigation of the Apocalypse in the Later Middle Ages."  In Paul Freedman and Caroline Bynum, eds., Last Things:  Eschatology and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages.  Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.  Pp. 156-187. ]

“Northern and Southern Sanctity in the Canonization of Vincent Ferrer:  The Effects of Procedural Differences on the Image of the Saint.”  In Gábor Klaniczay, ed., Procès de canonization au Moyen Âge: aspects juridiques et religieux, Collection de l’École française de Rome 340.  Rome:  Ecole Française de Rome, 2004.  Pp.  289-308.

"The Canonization Process for St. Vincent Ferrer."  In Thomas Head, ed., Medieval Hagiography:  An Anthology.  New York:  Garland, 2000.  Pp. 781-803.

Encyclopedia articles:

 “Prophets, Seers, Astrologers, and Alchemists:  Paths to Truth in the Later Middle Ages,” session overview and abstract of my paper “Astrology and the Sibyls:  John of Legnano and the Sources of Religious Truth in the Later Middle Ages,” in AVISTA Forum Journal: Medieval Science, Technology, and Art 16 (2006).  In press.

 “Vincent Ferrer.”  In Phyllis Jestice, ed., Holy People of the World:  A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia, 3 vols.  Santa Barbara, CA:  ABC Clio, 2004.  3: 895-96.

“Pierre d’Ailly.”  Article in Thomas Hockey, ed., Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers.  (Dordrecht:  Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006).  Expected publication date October 2006.

“Peter of Ailly.”  Article in Wouter Hanegraaff, ed., Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism. Leiden:  Brill, 2005.   2 vols.  2: 954-55.

"Pierre d'Ailly."  In John Block Friedman and Kristen Mossler Figg, Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages:  An Encyclopedia .  New York:  Garland, 2000.  Pp. 8-10.

"Astrology."  Article in The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition:  An Encyclopedia.  New York:  Garland, 2000.  Pp. 527-532.

Other articles: 

"Second Opinion:  Talking about a Revolution."  Stanford Medicine 13 (Spring 1996): 30-32.

In preparation:

The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby:  The Cult of Vincent Ferrer and the Religious Life of the Later Middle Ages (book project).

“Astrology and the Sibyls:  John of Legnano’s De adventu Christi and the Natural Theology of the Later Middle Ages,” article to be included in a special edition of Science in Context  (title:  Believing Nature, Knowing God) arising from the Natural Theology subsection of the working group “Knowledge and Belief,”  Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.  (Journal submission under revision.)

“‘Authentic Miracles in Public Form’:  Canonization and the Authentication of Miracles in the Case of Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419),” to be included in a volume of papers from the October 2005 conference on authenticating miracles at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.  (Under review by Brill).

An Astrological Sibyl:  Routes to Religious Truth in the Fifteenth Century (book project). 

Reviews:

Review of  Bruce T. Moran.  Distilling Knowledge:  Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution.  New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine.  Cambridge, MA and London:  Harvard University Press, 2005. Medieval Encounters 12 (2006): 122-24.

Review of Corinne Leveleux, La parole interdite.  Le blasphème dans la France médiévale (XIII^e-XVI^e siècles):  Du péché au crime (Romanité et modernité du droit)  (Paris:  De Boccard, 2001).  Speculum 80 (2005):  919-21.

Review of Barbara Newman, God and the Goddesses:  Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages (Philadelphia:  Univ. of Penn. Press, 2003). Religious Studies Review 30, 4 (2004): 323.

Review of Jody Enders, Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends.  Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. . H-France Review 3 (2003), # 81.

Review of Nicolas Weill-Parot.   Les “images astrologiques” au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance:  Spéculations intellectuelles et pratiques magiques (XIIe-XVe siècle), Sciences, techniques et civilisations du Moyen Âge à l’aube des lumières, 6  (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2002). Speculum 79 (2004):  286-88.

Review of Brendan Dooley, Morandi’s Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics (Princeton:  Princeton Univ. Presss, 2002).  The Renaissance Quarterly 56 (2003):  44-45. 

Review of Caroline Bynum, Metamorphosis and Identity (New York:  Zone Books, 2001).  Religious Studies Review 28, 4 (2002): 381.

Review of Stanko Andric, The Miracles of St. John Capistran.  (Budapest:  Central European University Press, 2000).  Speculum 77, no. 4 (2002):  1228-29. 

Review of Joel Kaye, Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century:  Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought.  Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4^th series, volume 35  (Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 2000--paperback). H-France Review 1 (2001), # 24.

Review of John Aberth.  From the Brink of the Apocalypse:  Confronting Famine, War, Plague, and Death in the Later Middle Ages.  (London and New York:  Routledge, 2001).  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 75 (2001): 792-3.

Review of Robert Lerner, The Feast of Saint Abraham:  Medieval Millenarians and the Jews.  The Middle Ages Series  (Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).  Religious Studies Review 27, 3 (2001): 300.

Review of Catherine M. Mooney, ed., Gendered Voices:  Medieval Saints and their Interpreters (Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999).  Religious Studies Review 25 (2001):  305.

Review of Craig Harline and Eddy Put, A Bishop’s Tale:  Mathias Hovius among his Flock in Seventeenth Century Flanders  (New Haven and London:  Yale University Press, 2000).  The Wilson Quarterly 24 (Fall 2000):  136-37.

Review of Anthony Grafton, Cardano’s Cosmos:  The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer (Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 1999). The Wilson Quarterly 24 (Spring 2000): 131.

Review of Joseph Ziegler, Medicine and Religion c. 1300:  The Case of Arnau de Vilanova (Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1998).  Religious Studies Review 26 (2000): 92.

Review of Claire Fanger, Conjuring Spirits:  Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic (University Park, PA:  Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998).  Religious Studies Review 25 (1999): 305.

Review of Jean-Patrice Boudet, ed., Le Recueil des plus celebres astrologues de Symon de Phares, Tome Ier, Édition critique (Paris:  Champion, 1997). Speculum 74 (1999):  507-08.

Review of Roberto Paciocco, "Sublima negotia."  Le canonizzazioni dei santi nella curia papale e il nuovo Ordine dei frati Minori (Padua:  Centro Studi Antoniani, 1996). Speculum 74 (1999):  237-38.

Review of Michael Goodich, Violence and Miracle in the Fourteenth Century:  Private Grief and Public Salvation  (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1995).  Annales:  Histoire, Sciences Sociales 53 (1998):  1313-15.

Review of Jeannine Horowitz and Sophia Menache, L'humour en chaire:  Le rire dans l'Eglise médiévale, Histoire et Société, 28 (Geneva:  Labor et Fides, 1994).  Speculum 70 (1995):  914-16.

Review of Salvatore Tramontana, Vestirsi e travestirsi in Sicilia:  Abbigliamento, feste e spettacoli nel Medioevo  (Palermo, Italy: Sellerio, 1993).  Speculum 70 (1995):  213-15. 

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND LECTURES 

“Astrology and the Sibyls in Medieval Europe.”  Invited presentation at Astrology and the Body 1100-1800, Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.  September 9, 2006.

 “Butchering Mother and Healing Saint:  Dismembered Child and Remembered Schism in the Nascent Cult of Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419),”  International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 13, 2006.

“Astrology and the Sibyls:  John of Legnano and the Sources of Religious Truth in the Later Middle Ages,” 41^st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 4, 2006 (also organized the paper session, entitled Prophets, Seers, Alchemists, and Astrologers:  Paths to Truth in the Later Middle Ages).

“Camus’s The Plague.”  George Ackerman Reading Retreat, Arkansas College of Physicians.  Heber Springs, AR.  April 1, 2006.

“What Makes a Cure a Miracle?  Authenticating Miracles in the Later Middle Ages.”  Medical Humanities Grand Rounds, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, November 10, 2005.

“From Queen of Heaven to Holy Mothers:  Female Spiritual Authority in the Later Middle Ages,” Arkansas Association of College History Teachers, annual meeting, Old State Hous, Little Rock, AR, October 7, 2005 (winner of best paper prize).

“The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby:  Creating the Image of Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419).” Colloquium (lecture).  Invited presentation at the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Minnesota.  April 21, 2005.

“Astrology and the Sibyls:  John of Legnano and the Natural Theology of the Later Middle Ages.” Workshop (works in progress).  Invited presentation at the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Minnesota. April 20, 2005.

 “ ‘Authentic Miracles in Public Form’:  Canonization and the Authentication of Miracles in the Case of Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419),” paper presented at workshop on “Miracles as Epistemic Things,” organized by Fernando Vidal, at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, October 30, 2004.

“The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby:  Creating the Image of Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419).”  Invited presentation for the Annenberg European History Colloquium, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, September 30, 2004 (discussion of pre-circulated paper).

“The Angel of the Apocalypse:  The Image of the Charismatic Preacher in the Cult of Vincent Ferrer.”  Invited presentation at Charisma and Religious Authority, international conference held at Queen Mary College, University of London, July 26-27, 2004.

“Frogs, Earthquakes, and Rains of Fire:  Plague and the Apocalypse in Fourteenth-Century Europe.”  Invited lecture for the History of Science Colloquium, University of Chicago, November 2, 2001, and for the History of Science Colloquium, University of Oklahoma, April 30, 2004.

 “Two-Headed Monsters and Chopped-Up Babies:  Re-Imagining the Schism after the Council of Constance.”  Paper presented at the Medieval Academy of America, annual meeting, Seattle, April 1-3, 2004.  (Also organizer of the session: “1378 Revisited:  Fresh Approaches to the Great Schism.”)   

“Deviants, Mystics, and Monsters:  Some Recent Trends in the Religious History of the Later Middle Ages.”  Paper presented at the American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, joint session with American Catholic Historical Association and the American Society of Church History, Washington, D.C., January 9, 2004.

 “Astrology and the End of the World:  The Bleeding Edge of late Medieval Prognostication.”  Paper presented at the History of Science Society, Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA, November 21, 2003.

“The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby:  Shaping the Image of Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419).” Invited presentation at the European Semniar, Johns Hopkins University History Department, November 6, 2003 (discussion of pre-circulated article).

“St. Vincent Ferrer and the Miracle of the Chopped-Up Baby:  Creating the Image of a New Saint in the Fifteenth Century.”  Paper presented at British National Commission CIHEC and The Ecclesiastical History Society Conference on Signs, Wonders, Miracles:  Representations of Divine Power in the Life of the Church, University of Exeter, UK, July 21, 2003.

“The Saint Who Was Wrong:  Vincent Ferrer’s Failed Apocalyptic Prophecy in the Fifteenth-Century Imagination.”  Paper presented at “Sweet in the Mouth, Bitter in the Stomach:  Apocalyptic Disappointment and its Millennial Mutations,”  the seventh annual conference on millennialism of the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, November 2-4, 2002.

“Holy Mothers:  The History of the Designation of Spiritual Status.”  Paper presented at the Mid-America Conference on History, Fayetteville, AR, September 19, 2002.

 “Shaping the Image of St. Vincent Ferrer.”  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, IL, March 29-31, 2001.

“Northern and Southern Sanctity in the Canonization of Vincent Ferrer.”  Invited presentation at Collegium Budapest:  Medieval Canonization Trials:  Legal and Religious Aspects.  Budapest, Hungary.  February 8-11. 2001.

“Frogs, Earthquakes, and Rains of Fire:  Plague and the Apocalypse in Fourteenth-Century Europe.”  Lecture for the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program.  University of Arkansas.  Fayetteville, AR.  October 19, 2000.

“Precursors of Antichrist or Children of Saturn?  The Flagellants in the Chronicle of Heinrich of Herford.”  Paper presented at the Medieval Academy of America, Austin, TX, April 13, 2000.

“One Thousand Years of Healing:  Medicine in the West, 1000-2000.”  Central Arkansas Library System, Millennium Lecture Series.  January 8, 2000.  And given for Medical Grand Rounds.  Penrose Hospital, Colorado Springs, Colo.  January 2001.

“Pierre d’Ailly, the Stars, and the Apocalypse.”  Invited paper at the New England Medieval Conference.  Boston.  December 4, 1999.

“Skin Pathology and Medical Prognosis in Medieval Europe:  The Secrets of Hippocrates.”  After-dinner speech at the American Society for Dermatopathology annual meeting, San Diego.  November 6, 1999.  And for the History of Medicine Associates.  Little Rock, AR.   September 21, 2000.

“St. Vincent Ferrer and the Chopped-Up Baby.”  Paper presented at the Arkansas Association of College History Teachers’ annual meeting, Eureka Springs, AR.  October 29, 1999.

“Teaching the Middle Ages.”  Panel discussion at the Southeastern Medieval Association, Knoxville, TN.  October 16, 1999.

"Some Regional Differences in the Canonization of Vincent Ferrer, d. 1419."  Paper presented at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 1999.

"The Black Death:  A Major Turning Point in History?"  Lecture delivered to the University History Institute.  March 2, 1999.

"Apocalyptic Calculators of the Later Middle Ages."  Paper presented at "Knowing of a Time, Knowing the Time,"  sponsored by the Center for Millennial Studies, Boston University.  December 6-8, 1998.  Boston, MA.

"Canonization Inquest as Hagiographical Ritual:  The Inquest into the Sanctity of Vincent Ferrer, Brittany, 1453-54."  Paper presented at the Hagiography Society's symposium,  "Sanctity and Ritual," Ammerdown (UK), July 6-10, 1998.

"Half-Baked Babies, Chivalry, and Miracles in Late Medieval Brittany:  Stories from the Canonization of St. Vincent Ferrer."  Paper presented at a symposium in honor of Charles T. Wood in conjunction with the International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 1998.

"Traveling Stories and Shifting Memories:  St. Vincent Ferrer and the Case of the Chopped-Up Baby."  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Seattle, January 1998.

"Liturgical Time and the Memory of Miracles:  Examples from the Canonization of Vincent Ferrer."  Paper presented at the April 1997 meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (Toronto) and at the October 1997 meeting of the Arkansas Association of College History Teachers (winner of Best Paper Prize).

"The Experience of Plague in Fifteenth-Century Brittany."  Talk given at Surgical Pathology Conference, Stanford University, April 1996.

"Miracle, Memory, and Meaning in the Canonization of Vincent Ferrer, 1453-54."  Paper read at panel on "Memory, Narrative, and the Construction of Meaning," chair, Randolph Starn.   American Historical Association, January 1996.

"Miracle, Memory, and Meaning in the Canonization of Vincent Ferrer, 1453-54."  Paper presented at the Berkeley Medieval Studies Colloquium, October 1995.

"Cultural Conceptions of Disease in Medieval Europe."  Talk given at Surgical Pathology Conference, Stanford University, May 1995 and at Ethical Grand Rounds, University of Arkansas for Medical Science, August 1995.

"World's Beginning and World's End:  Astrology, Chronology, and History in the Later Middle Ages."  Invited lecture at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Classical Tradition, Boston, March 1995.

"Defining the Boundaries of the Natural in the Fifteenth Century:  The Inquest into the Miracles of St. Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419)"  Paper presented to the Stanford Colloquium in the History and Philosophy of Science, November 1994.

"The Popular Meaning of the Miraculous in Fifteenth-Century Brittany:  The Miracles of  St. Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419)."  Paper read at the annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, April 1994.

"The Miracles of St. Vincent Ferrer."  Paper read at the annual meeting of the Western Association of Women Historians, May 1992.

"The Miracles of St. Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419)."  Paper read at the annual meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, March 1992.

"Astrology and Apocalypse in the Works of Pierre d'Ailly."  Paper read at the annual meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, March 1991.

"Pierre d'Ailly on the Origins of Religious Sects:  A Nominalist Defense of Astrology."   Paper read at the annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, April 1987. 

EDITORIAL REVIEWS 

Review of manuscripts and proposals for Isis, Routledge, Bedford-St. Martin’s, British Journal for the History of Science, Church History.

Review of grant proposals for Social Sciences Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship,  2005-06, 2006-07.