Thomas Noble

Robert M. Conway Director of the Medieval Institute
Professor
Department of History

Degrees

B.A., Ohio University; M.A., Ph.D., Michigan State University

Research Profile

Noble's research interests focus on the Carolingian world and on early medieval Rome and the papacy. His The Republic of St. Peter (1984; Italian trans. 1997) is a study of the origins of papal temporal rule. More than a dozen articles on Roman and papal history are preparatory to a history of the papacy from the origins to 1046. Noble has just completed a monograph Images and the Carolingians, exploring controversies over religious art in the eighth and ninth centuries. Noble has also co-authored a Western Civilization textbook (5th ed. 2007). Noble has held a Fulbright Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, and two grants from the American Philosophical Society. He has been a member and visitor of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (Wassenaar). In 2002 Noble was elected a Fellow of the Societa Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino (Florence) and in 2004, a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.

Contact Information

715 Hesburgh Library
631-6604
tnoble@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~medinst