Robert Ian "Bob" Moore (born 1941), most commonly known as R. I. Moore, is a British historian who is Professor Emeritus of History at

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. He specialises in

medieval history In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...

and has written several influential works on the subject of

heresy Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, in particular the accepted beliefs of a church or religious organization. The term is usually used in reference to violations of important religi ...

. Moore was a pioneer in the UK of the teaching of

world history World history may refer to: * Human history, the history of human beings * History of Earth, the history of planet Earth * World history (field), a field of historical study that takes a global perspective * ''World History'' (album), a 1998 albu ...

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students, has published numerous papers on

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world history, and is series editor of the Blackwell History of the World.

Biography

Moore was born in

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, Northern Ireland, on 8 May 1941. He studied at

Merton College, Oxford Merton College (in full: The House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford) is one of the Colleges of Oxford University, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the ...

, from which he received a

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...

degree in 1962 and a

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degree in 1966. From 1964 to 1994 he taught medieval history at the

University of Sheffield , mottoeng = To discover the causes of things , established = – University of SheffieldPredecessor institutions: – Sheffield Medical School – Firth College – Sheffield Technical School – University College of Sheffield , type = Pu ...

, then moving to the

, where he remained until 2003. He was a visiting professor at the

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in 1989 and the

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in 2004.

Selected works

Books

* ''The Birth of Popular Heresy'' (1975) * ''The Origins of European Dissent'' (1st 1977, revised 1985) * ''The First European Revolution, c. 970–1215'' (2000) * ''Studies in Medieval History Presented to R. H. C. Davis'', eds.

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and Moore (

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, 1985) * ''The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950–1250'' (

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, 1987); Expanded edition, ''The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Authority and Deviance in Western Europe, 950–1250'' (Blackwell, 2007) * 3rd. edition of R.H.C.Davis, ''A History of Medieval Europe: from Constantine to Saint Louis'', (

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, 2005, ) (1st ed. by

Ralph Henry Carless Davis Ralph Henry Carless Davis (7 October 1918 – 12 March 1991) was a British historian and educator specialising in the European Middle Ages. Davis was born and died in Oxford. He was a leading exponent of strict documentary analysis and interpre ...

, Longman, 1957; 2nd ed. by Davis, 1970) * ''The War on Heresy: the Battle for Faith and Power in Medieval Europe'' (

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, 2012); US title, ''The War on Heresy'' (Harvard, 2012)

Historical atlas edited

* ''The Hamlyn Historical Atlas'' (London: Hamlyn, 1961; revised 1981): US title, ''Rand McNally Atlas of World History'' (Chicago:

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, 1981; revised 1983). Associate editors, Maps copyright Creative Cartography, Hamlyn, and Rand McNally. * ''The Newnes Historical Atlas'' (Newnes Books, 1983) * ''Philip's Atlas of World History'' (George Philip and Son, 1992)

Papers

* Family, Community and Cult on the Eve of the Gregorian Reform', ''Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'', 5th series, 30 (1980), 49–69. * 'Guibert of Nogent and his World,' in ''Studies in Medieval History Presented to R.H.C. Davis'' ed. Henry Mayr-Harting and R.I. Moore (London, 1985), 107-117. * '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 (Carcassonne, 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

Fellowships

Royal Historical Society The Royal Historical Society, founded in 1868, is a learned society of the United Kingdom which advances scholarly studies of history. Origins The society was founded and received its royal charter in 1868. Until 1872 it was known as the Histori ...

(1975) *

Royal Asiatic Society The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, commonly known as the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS), was established, according to its royal charter of 11 August 1824, to further "the investigation of subjects connected with and for the en ...

(1992) * Institute for Advanced Study,

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(1995) *

Medieval Academy of America The Medieval Academy of America (MAA; spelled Mediaeval until c. 1980) is the largest organization in the United States promoting the field of medieval studies. It was founded in 1925 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The academy publishes ...

(2002)

References

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