Thomas F. X. Noble
Robert M. Conway Director of the Medieval Institute and Professor of History
Field
Medieval History
Profile
Noble’s interests lie in the history of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages (roughly AD 300 to 1000. He is interested particularly in the art, theology, and political culture of this period. He recently published an edited volume From Roman Provinces to Medieval Kingdoms (London: Routledge, 2006) dealing with the transformation of the Roma Empire. He is in the process of completing a lengthy manuscript entitled Images and the Carolingians: Tradition, Order, and Worship which will be submitted before the end of the year and has nearly completed co-editorial work on volume III of the Cambridge History of Christianity.
Current Project
He is currently working on a history of the papacy from the origins to 1046 and is also collecting materials for a history of the idea of Rome in the Middle Ages.
Teaching Interests
Noble teaches the introductory course in medieval studies for undergraduates, the first medieval Proseminar for graduate students, and courses on Late Antiquity, the Carolingians, and the Anglo-Saxons.
Recent Publications
Images and the Carolingians: Tradition, Order, and Worship From Roman Provinces to Medieval Kingdoms (London: Routledge, Forthcoming)
“The Bible in the Codex Carolinus,” in Claudio Leonardi and Giovanni Orlandi eds., Biblical Studies in the Early Middle Ages, SISMEL: Atti di Convegni 6(Florence: SISMEL, 2005), pp. 61-74.
“The Vocabulary of Vision and Worship in the Early Carolingian Period,” in Giselle de Nie, Karl F. Morrison, Herbert Kessler, and Marco Mostert eds., Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages: Papers from “Verbal and Pictorial Imaging: Representing and Accessing Experience of the Invisible: 400-1000" (Utrecht, 11-13 December 2003). Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 13. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005. Pp. 215-39.
“The Roman Elite from Constantine to Charlemagne,” Acta ad Archaeologiam et Artium Historiam Pertinentia, 17 (2003), 13-25.
Contact
Office: 715 Hesburgh Library
Phone: (574) 631-6603
Email: noble.8@nd.edu
Office Hours: Monday 3:15—4:45, Wednesday 3:15—5:00 and by appointment