Robert Ian MOORE

Date of Birth: 8th May 1941, at Enniskillen, Northern Ireland

Education: B.A. Oxford University 1962 (Merton College)
M.A. Oxford University 1966

Appointments: 1964 - 94: University of Sheffield:
Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader in Medieval and Modern History
1993 - 2003 University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Professor (now emeritus) of Medieval History
1989 University of Chicago: Visiting Professor
2004 University of California at Berkeley: Distinguished Visiting Professor in Medieval Studies

Learned Societies: 2003 Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. (elected, 2002)

Member: Historical Association, Ecclesiastical History Society (Committee, 1977-80), Past and Present Society, World History Association. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1975, Council, 1995 - 99 ); Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (1992).

Recent Publications: The First European Revolution, c. 970-1215, in the series The Making of Europe, ed. Jacques Le Goff, (Oxford and New York, Blackwell, 2000), pp. xiii + 237.

also as Die erste europäische Revolution (Munich, Beck, 2001); La première révolution européenne (Paris, Seuil, 2001); La prima rivoluzione europea (Bari, Laterza, 2001); La primera revolucion europea 970 - 1215 (Barcelona, Critica, 2003)

'The Transformation of Europe as a Eurasian Phenomenon', in Johann P. Arnason and Bjorn Wittrock, eds., Eurasian Transformations, Tenth ot Thirteenth Centuries: Crystallizations, Divergences, Renaissances (Leiden, Brill, 2004), 77 - 98.

'Les albigeois d'après les chroniques angevines' La croisade albigeoise, Actes du Colloque du Centre d'Etudes Cathares, Carcassonne 2002 (Carcassonne, 2004), 81 - 900.

'The Eleventh Century in Eurasian History: A Comparative Approach to the Convergence and Divergence of the Medieval Civilizations', Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33.1 (2003), 1 - 21

Other publications (selected):

a) Books:

1. The Birth of Popular Heresy, Documents of Medieval History I (London, Edward Arnold, 1975; University of Toronto Press for Medieval Academy of America Reprints for Teaching, 1995), pp. viii + 166.

2. The Origins of European Dissent (London, Allen Lane, 1977; 2 ed., Oxford, Blackwell, 1985; University of Toronto Press for Medieval Academy of America Reprints for Teaching, 1994), pp. xiv + 322.;

3. The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250 (Oxford & New York, Blackwell, 1987), pp. viii + 168; paperback edn. 1990, reprinted 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000

Published in Dutch as Ketters, heksen en andere zondebokken: Vervolging als middel tot macht 950-1250 (Antwerp 1988); in Spanish as La formacion de una sociedad represora: Poder y disidenca en la Europa occidental, 950-1250 (Barcelona, 1989); in French as La persecution: Sa formation en Europe, X - XIIIe. siecles (Paris, 1991).

4. H. Mayr-Harting and R. I. Moore (eds.) Studies in Medieval History presented to R. H. C. Davis (London, Hambledon Press, 1985)



(b) papers:

`Family, Community and Cult on the Eve of the Gregorian Reform', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 5th series, 30 (1980), 49-69.

'Antisemitism and the Birth of Europe', Studies in Church History ed. Diana Wood, 29, Christianity and Judaism, (Oxford, 1992), 33 - 57.

''Heresy and the Making of Literacy, c. 1000 - 1150', Peter Biller and Anne Hudson eds., Heresy and Literacy in the Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 19 - 37, reprinted in Lester K. Little and Barbara H. Rosenwein eds., Debating the Middle Ages (Oxford 1998), pp. 363-75

'Heresy, Repression and Social Change in the Age of Gregorian Reform', in Medieval Christendom and its Discontents, ed. Scott J. Waugh (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 19 - 46.

'A la naissance d'une société persécutrice: les clercs, les Cathares et la formation de l'Europe', in Le Catharisme,: un ordre condamné: Centre nationale d'études cathares, 6e. session d'histoire médiévale , September 1993 (Carcassone, 1996), pp. 11 - 37

'Between Sanctity and Superstition: Saints and their Miracles in the Age of Revolution', in The Work of Jacques Le Goff, and the Challenges of Medieval History ed. Miri Rubin (Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1997), pp. 63 - 75

'World History' in Michael Bentley (ed.) Companion to Historiography (London, Routledge, 1997), pp. 941 - 59

'The Birth of Europe as a Eurasian Phenomenon', Modern Asian Studies 31/3 (1997), pp. 583 - 601, reprinted in V. Lieberman, ed., Beyond Binary Histories: Re-imagining Eurasia to c. 1830 (Ann Arbor, 1999), pp. 139-59


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