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. Institutional development The term 'medieval studies' began to be adopted by academics in the opening decades of the twentieth century, initially in the titles of books ...

Biography

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

Pomona College Pomona College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became ...

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

, 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'' (

University of Pennsylvania Press The University of Pennsylvania Press (or Penn Press) is a university press affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The press was originally incorporated with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on 26 Ma ...

, 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