Thomas Noble
Professor of History
Chairperson, Department of History
Degrees
B.A., Ohio University; M.A., Ph.D., Michigan State University
Research Profile
Prior to coming to Notre Dame in 2001, Noble taught for 20 years at the University of Virginia and for four years at Texas Tech. A pupil of the distinguished early medievalist Richard Sullivan, Noble’s research interests have focused on the Carolingian world, 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. In 2009 Noble published Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians, a long strudy of the origins of Christian discourse about sacred art. Noble has also edited three volumes and co-authored a successful Western civilization textbook (6th ed. 2010) and another text The Western Humanities (7th ed. 2010). Noble has received a Fulbright Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, and two grants from the American Philosophical Society. He has been a member and elected 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, Noble was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. In 2008 he received an Edmund P. Joyce award for distinguished teaching.
Contact Information
715
Hesburgh Library
631-6604
tnoble@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~medinst
