Curriculum Vitae
Steven Fanning
Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago
[email protected]
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree, 1977
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Awarded Master of Arts degree, 1970
Awarded Bachelor of Arts degree (with honors), 1968
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
Associate Professor, 1987-present; Assistant Professor, 1981-87; Visiting Assistant
Professor, 1980-81
Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Visiting Assistant Professor, 1979-80
Department of History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Visiting Assistant Professor, 1978
Department of History, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Part-Time Instructor, 1970-72
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
A Bishop and His World Before the Gregorian Reform, Hubert of Angers, 1006-1047,
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 78, Part I, 1988.
Mystics of the Christian Tradition (Routledge, London and New York, 2001). Greek translation
as Οι Μυστκoί της Χριστιαvικής Παράδoσης (Athens: Enalios, 2005).
Translation (with Bernard S. Bachrach), The Annals of Flodoard of Reims (Broadview Press:
Peterborough, ON, Canada, 2004).
ARTICLES:
ALes origines familiales de Vulgrin, Abbé de St-Serge d'Angers et Évêque du Mans, petit-fils du
vicomte Fulcrade de Vendôme,@ La Province du Maine 82 (1980), pp. 243-55.
ALombard Arianism Reconsidered,@ Speculum 56:1 (1981), pp. 241-52.
AA Review of Lombard Prosopography,@ Medieval Prosopography 2:1 (1981), pp. 13-33.
ALa lutte entre Hubert de Vendôme, Évêque d'Angers, et l'Archevêque de Tours, en 1016: un
épisode dans l'histoire de l'Église des principautés territoriales,@ Bulletin de la Société
archéologique, scientifique et littéraire du Vendômois (1980), pp. 31-3.
AFrom Miles to Episcopus: The Influence of the Family on the Career of Vulgrinus of Vendôme
(ca. 1000-1065),@ Medieval Prosopography 4:1 (1983), pp. 9-30.
AActs of Henry I of France Concerning Anjou,@ Speculum 60:1 (1985), pp.110-4.
AFamily and Episcopal Election, 900-1050, and the Case of Hubert, Bishop of Angers (10061047),@ Medieval Prosopography 7:1 (1986), pp. 39-56.
ABede, Imperium, and the Bretwaldas,@ Speculum 66:1 (1991), pp. 1-26.
AJerome's Concepts of Empire,@ in Images of Empire, ed. Loveday Alexander, Journal for the
Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series 122 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic
Press, 1991), pp. 239-50.
AEmperors and Empires in Fifth-Century Gaul,@ in Fifth-Century Gaul: a Crisis of Identity?,
ed. John Drinkwater and Hugh Elton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992),
pp. 288-97.
AImperial Diplomacy Between Francia and Byzantium: The Letter of Louis II to Basil I in
871,@ Cithara 34:1 (1994), pp. 3-17.
ARex and Tyrannus in Roman Historiographical Tradition C Livy, Cicero, Josephus and
Gildas,@ in Majestas 6 (1998), pp. 3-18.
ATacitus, Beowulf and the Comitatus,@ in Haskins Society Journal 9 for 1997 (2001), pp. 17-38.
AMitigations of the Fear of Hell and Purgatory in the Later Middle Ages: Julian of Norwich and
Catherine of Genoa,@ in Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 6, AFear
and Its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance,@ ed. Anne Scott and
Cynthia Kosso (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2002), pp. 295-310.
AClovis Augustus and Merovingian Imitatio Imperii,@ in The World of Gregory of Tours, ed.
Kathleen Mitchell and Ian Wood (Leiden: Brill, 2002), pp. 321-35.
AOdovacer Rex, Regal Terminology, and the Question of the End of the Western Roman
Empire,@ Medieval Prosopography 24 (2003), pp. 45-54.
“Reguli in the Roman Empire, Late Antiquity, and the Early Medieval Germanic Kingdoms,” in
Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World: Cultural Interaction
and the Creation of Identity in Late Antiquity, ed. Ralph Mathisen and Danuta Shanzer
(Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 43-53.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES:
Dictionary of the Middle Ages, vol. 7 (1986)
ALombard League,@ pp. 652-3, ALombards, Kingdom of,@ pp. 645-8.
Medieval France, An Encyclopedia (1995), entries on: Alani, Alemanni, Austrasia, Brunhilde,
Cavalry, Charles Martel, Childeric I, Chilperic I, Cité, Clotar II, Clovis I, Comites,
Dagobert I, Franks, Fredegunda, Fredus, Gothia, Heristal, Mayor of the Palace, the
Merovingians, Metz, Neustria, Salic Law, Septimania, Visigoths, Wergeld.
The Reader's Companion to Military History, ed. Robert Cowley and Geoffrey Parker (Houghton
Mifflin: Boston and New York, 1996), AFulk Nerra,@ p. 174.
BOOK CONSULTANT:
Sole Consultant on What Life was Like in the Age of Chivalry, Medieval Europe, AD 800-1500
(Time-Life Books: Alexandria, VA, 1997).
BOOK REVIEWS:
Roger Gryson, ed., Scripta Arriana Latina, 1: Collectio Veronensis, scholia in Concilium
Aquileiense, fragmenta in Lucam rescripta, fragmenta theological rescripta, and
Roger Gryson, Le recueil arien de Vérone (MS. LI de la Bibliothèque capitulaire de feuillets
inédits de la collection Giustiniani Recanti): Étude codicologique de paléographique, in
Speculum 59:4 (1984), pp. 977-8.
Jan T. Hallenbeck, Pavia and Rome: The Lombard Monarchy and the Papacy in the Eighth
Century, in Medieval Prosopography 6:1 (1985), pp. 101-4.
Jonathan Riley-Smith, The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading, in Military Affairs 51:4
(1987), p. 212.
Neithard Bulst and Jean-Philippe Genet, eds., Medieval Lives and the Historian: Studies in
Medieval Prosopography (Parts I, II), in Medieval Prosopography 8:2 (1987), pp.49-57.
Patrick J. Geary, Before France and Germany. The Creation and Transformation of the
Merovingian World, in The Historian 52:1 (1989), pp. 103-4.
Eleanor Searle, Predatory Kinship and the Creation of Norman Power, 840-1066, in Journal of
Interdisciplinary History 20:4 (1990), pp. 666-7.
Richard A. Gerberding, The Rise of the Carolingians and the 'Liber Historiae Francorum' in The
Historian 52:2 (1990), pp. 305-6.
Herwig Wolfram, History of the Goths, in Catholic Historical Review 76:1 (1990), pp. 104-6.
Robert Fossier, ed., Cartulaire-chronique du prieuré Saint Georges d'Hesdin in Speculum 66:1
(1991), pp. 158.
John Haywood, Dark-Age Naval Power: A Re-assessment of Frankish and Anglo-Saxon
Seafaring Activity, in The American Historical Review 97:5 (1992), pp. 1495-6.
Patrick Galliou and Michael Jones, The Bretons, in The Historian 55:1 (1992), pp. 123-4.
Richard P. Abels, Lordship and Military Obligation in Anglo-Saxon England, in The American
Historical Review 98:3 (1993), pp. 847-8.
Dieter Hägermann and Andreas Hedwig, Das Polyptichon und die "Notitia de areis" von SaintMaur-des-Fossés: Analyse und Edition, in Speculum 68:3 (1993), pp. 792-4.
Kelly DeVries, Medieval Military Technology, in Isis 85:2 (1994), p. 320.
Elisabeth Magnou-Nortier, ed., Pouvoirs et libertés au temps des premiers capétiens, in Speculum
69:4 (1994), pp. 1221-2.
Andreas Sohn, Der Abbatiat Ademars von Saint-Martial de Limoges (1063-1114), in Speculum
70:2 (1995), pp. 428-9.
John French, Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade, in The American
Historical Review 101:2 (1996), pp. 464-5.
Luca Robertini, ed., Liber miraculorum sancte Fidis, in Speculum 72:1 (1997), pp. 214-6.
Arnold H. Price, The Germanic Warrior Clubs, An Inquiry into the Dynamics of the Era of
Migrations and into the Antecedents of Medieval Soceity, in Early Medieval Europe 6:1
(1997), pp. 112-3.
Rosemary Morris, Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843-1118, in The Historian 60:1 (1997), pp.
179-80.
Marbodo di Rennes, Vita beati Roberti, ed. and trans. Antonella Degl=Innocenti, in Speculum
73:2 (1998), pp. 562-3.
David A. E. Pelteret, Slavery in Early Mediæval England: From the Reign of Alfred Until the
Twelfth Century, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 97:2 (1998), pp. 235-6.
Stephen S. Evans, The Lords of Battle. Image and Reality of the Comitatus in Dark Age Britain,
in Early Medieval Europe 7:1 (1998), pp. 136-7.
Patrick Amory, People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554, in Medieval Prosopography 21
(2000), pp. 243-5.
Patrick Geary, The Myth of Nations, the Medieval Origins of Europe, H-France Review,
http://www3.uakron.edu/hfrance/reviews/fanning.html
Steven T. Katz, ed., Mysticism and Sacred Scripture in The Journal of Religion, 83:1 (January
2003), pp. 168-9.
George Tugene, L=image de la nation anglaise dans l=AHistoire ecclésiastique@ du Bède le
Vénérable in Speculum 78:3 (2003), pp. 1007-9.
N. J. Higham, King Arthur: Myth-Making and History, in Speculum 79:2 (2004), pp. 502-4.
P.S. Barnwell and Marco Mostert, eds., Political Assemblies in the Earlier Middle Ages, Studies
in the Early Middle Ages, vol. 7 (Brepols, Turnout, 2003), in Speculum 80:4 (October
2005), pp. 1231-3.
PAPERS PRESENTED:
ABishop Hubert and the Mauges Dispute,@ 12th International Congress on Medieval Studies,
1977.
AFrom Miles to Episcopus: The Influence of the Family on the Career of Vulgrinus of
Vendôme,@ 16th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 1981.
AFamily and Episcopal Election, 900-1050: Where Does Hubert, Bishop of Angers, Fit?,@ 19th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, 1984.
AImperator est Rex: Imperial and Regal Terminology in the Early Middle Ages,@ Earlier
Medieval Seminar, Institute for Historical Research, London, 1988.
AEmperors and Empires in Fifth-Century Gaul,@ Fifth-Century Gaul Conference, AA Crisis of
Identity?,@ University of Sheffield, England, 1989.
AJerome's Concepts of Empire,@ Images of Empire: the Roman Empire in Jewish, Christian and
Greco-Roman Sources, an Interdisciplinary Colloquium, University of Sheffield,
England, 1990.
AEarly Germanic Empires,@ 26th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 1991.
AThe Latin Vocabulary of Early Germanic Kingship,@ 30th Midwest Medieval History
Conference, 1991.
AFrancia and Byzantium: Competing Views of Empire,@ 117th Meeting of the American
Historical Association, 1992.
AOther Other-World Journeys: Medieval Near-Death Experiences, Problems and Approaches,@
10th Meeting of the Illinois Medieval Association, 1993.
AThe End of the Ancient World and the Beginning of the Middle Ages, 476 and All That,@ 36th
Missouri Conference on History, 1994.
AClovis Augustus and Merovingian Imitatio Imperii,@ 29th International Congress on Medieval
Studies, 1994.
AThe Anglo-Saxon Comitatus,@ International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 1994.
AWords of Power: Concepts of Kingdom and Empire in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle
Ages,@ Fellows Lecture, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago,
1994.
ARex and Tyrannus in Roman Historiographical Tradition,@ Joint Conference of the Haskins
Society and MAJESTAS, University of Houston, 1995.
AThe Flavian Title of the Lombard Kings,@ the Tenth Biennial New College Conference on
Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, Florida, 1996.
AThe Carolingians and the Papal Theory of Empire,@ 31st International Congress on Medieval
Studies, 1996.
ATacitus, Beowulf and the Comitatus,@ presented at the Fifteenth International Conference of the
Charles Homer Haskins Society, November 9, 1996, Houston, Texas
AAugustus Rex Romanorum,@ invited lecture, De Santis Lecture, Department of History,
University of Notre Dame, November 5, 1997.
AReflections on the Historical Study of Mysticism,@ invited plenary address, Thirty-second
annual conference of the Committee for the Advancement of Early Studies, Ball State
University, October 13, 2001.
AOdovacer Rex and the Question of the End of the West Roman Empire,@ 38th International
Congress on Medieval Studies, 8 May 2003.
AReconsideration of the Gothic Judgeship,@ Late Antiquity Symposium, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 27 March 2004.
AThe Flavii of the Later Roman Empire and the Early Middle Ages,@ presented at the 39th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 8 May 2004.
AReguli in the Later Roman Empire and the Germanic Kingdoms,@ presented at the Shifting
Frontiers in Late Antiquity VI conference of the Society for Late Antiquity, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 19 March 2005.
ACaesar Augustus, King of the Romans,@ invited lecture, Department of History, Northern
Illinois University, 21 March 2006.
AFrom Res Publica to Republic,@ presented at the 41st International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 5 May 2006.
AThe Unsaintly Life of Bouchard the Venerable,@ at the 26th International Conference of the
Charles Homer Haskins Society, at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, November
4, 2007.
“Reguli and Subreguli in Early Anglo-Saxon England,” at the Medieval Association of the
Midwest, Iowa City, Iowa, September 17, 2010.
GRANTS AND AWARDS:
Republic of France, awarded French Government Grant, 1976-77, for study in France (Bousier
no. 76 A/6883 US).
National Endowment for the Humanities, selected as participant in NEH Summer Institute, 1984,
AAn Introduction to Byzantium for Non-Byzantinists,@ Dumbarton Oaks, Washington,
DC.
University of Illinois at Chicago, Graduate College, awarded Faculty Summer Research Grant,
1982, for research in France.
University of Illinois at Chicago, awarded Silver Circle Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1984
and 1987.
Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, awarded Shirley A. Bill Memorial
Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1987 and 1992.
Faculty Fellowship, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1994-95.
CIC Academic Leadership Fellow, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1997-98.
Department of History, Texas Tech University, Distinguished Alumnus Award, 1999.