ERIC L. SAAK

Director, Undergraduate Studies; Associate Professor of History. B.A. University of Southern California, 1985; Ph.D. University of Arizona, 1993.

Teaching Interests: Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Europe; Western Civilization; religious and intellectual history; paleography; textual editing.

Research Specialties: Augustine and the Augustinians in Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Europe; Martin Luther; manuscript and print culture; textual editing.

Selected Publications: “Quilibet Christianus: Saints and Society in the Sermons of Jordan of Quedlinburg, OESA,” in Models of Holiness in Medieval Sermons (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1996); “The Reception of Augustine in the Later Middle Ages,” in The Reception of the Church Fathers in the West (Brill, 1997); “Late Scholasticism: Augustine’s Influence on,” “Aegidius Romanus,” “Gregory of Rimini,” “Milleloquium Sancti Augustini,” in Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia (Grand Rapids, MI, 1999); “The Creation of Augustinian Identity in the Later Middle Ages,” in Augustiniana 49 (1999); High Way to Heaven. The Augustinian Platform Between Reform and Reformation, 1292-1524 (Brill, 2002). Current Projects: Augustinus Noster, Intrepreting Augustine and Augustinianism in the Later Middle Ages; Religion and Politics in the Later Middle Ages. The Summa de potestate ecclesiastica of Augustinus de Ancona (d. 1328); Jordani de Quedlinburg Opera Omnia; Co-ed. The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine.

Grants: Fulbright Scholar (1992/93); Postdoctoral Fellow, The Netherlands Research School for Medieval Studies (1994-1999); Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for European History, Mainz (2000-2001); IU New Frontiers Travel Grant (2006).

Member of Editorial Board for the series “Studies in the History of Christian Traditions” of Brill Academic Publishers.

Office: CA 504P
Phone: (317) 274-1687
esaak@iupui.edu