Faculty bio-John Ott
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John Ott Associate Professor Contact Info: Office hours: Click here for personal web page |
Fields of Expertise:
Medieval Europe, 300-1450;
ecclesiastical and urban history of northern France and Flanders (eleventh and twelfth centuries);
hagiography and the cult of saints; social and religious minorities, religious dissent, authority; medieval Iberia.
He is the editor, with Anna Trumbore Jones, of The Bishop Reformed: Studies of Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages (Aldershot, 2007); and, with Trpimir Vedris, of Saintly Bishops and Bishops' Saints (Hagiotheca, 2012); and the author of Bishops, Authority and Community in Northwestern Europe, c. 1050-1150 (forthcoming), as well as various articles and reviews on bishops and episcopal office in northern France.
Courses taught:
- HST 300, Historical Imagination
- HST 354U, Early Medieval Europe, 300-1150
- HST 355U, Late Medieval Europe, 1100-1450
- HST 356U, Renaissance and Reformation Europe, 1400-1600
- HST 407/507, Seminar: Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Late Antiquity through the Crusading Period
- HST 407/507, Seminar: Lords and Lordship in Western Europe, 950-1250
- HST 407/507, Seminar: The Medieval Church and Reform
- HST 407/507, Seminar: Medieval Iberia
- HST 453/553, The Medieval City
- HST 454/554, Topics in Medieval History: Sanctity and Deviance in the Middle Ages
