Kenneth Baxter Wolf (born June 1, 1957) is an American historian and scholar of

medieval studies Medieval studies is the academic interdisciplinary study of the Middle Ages. A historian who studies medieval studies is called a medievalist. Institutional development The term 'medieval studies' began to be adopted by academics in the opening ...

Biography

Wolf is the John Sutton Miner Professor of History and Professor of Classics at

Pomona College Pomona College ( ) is a private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalism in the United States, Congregationalists ...

Claremont, California Claremont () is a suburban city in eastern Los Angeles County, California, United States, east of Los Angeles. It lies in the Pomona Valley at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census it had ...

, where he has taught since 1985.

Works

Authored

*''Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain'' (

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, 1988) *''The Normans and Their Historians in Eleventh-Century Italy'' (

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, 1995) *''The Poverty of Riches. St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered'' (

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, 2003)

Translated

*''Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain'' (Liverpool University Press, 1990) *''The Deeds of Count Roger and of His Brother Duke Robert Guiscard'' (University of Michigan Press, 2005) *''The Life and Afterlife of St. Elizabeth of Hungary and Testimony from her Canonization Hearings'' (Oxford University Press, 2011)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Baxter Wolf, Kenneth American medievalists Pomona College faculty 1957 births Living people Historians from California