Isabel Moreira, PhD
Associate Professor, History
Associate Professor, European History
Associate Professor, Religious History
History
Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building
215 S. Central Campus Dr. Rm 310
Salt Lake City, Ut 84112
Office Hours: by appointment
Office Phone: 581-7636
Email:
Degrees:
1992 PhD St. Andrews University, Scotland
1983 MA St. Andrews University, Scotland
Selected Publications:
Dreams, Visions and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul, Cornell University Press, 2000.
(Book), 2000
Violence, Purification and Mercy in the Late Antique Afterlife Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practice ed. H. A. Drake (Ashgate Publishing, 2006) 147-56.
(Journal Article), 2006
[citation]
Dreams and Divination in Early Medieval Canonical and Narrative Sources: The Question of Clerical Control, Catholic Historical Review 89 (2003) pp. 607-28.
(Journal Article), 2003
Living in the Palaces of Love: Love and the Soul in a Vision of St. Aldegund of Maubeuge (c. 635-84), Quidditas: Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 19 (1998) pp. 143-65.
(Journal Article), 1998
[citation]
St.Augustine's Three Visions and Three Heavens in Some Early Medieval Florilegia, Vivarium 34 (1996) pp. 1-14.
(Journal Article), 1996
[citation]
Provisatrix Optima: St. Radegund of Poitiers' relic petitions to the East, Journal of Medieval History 19 (1993) pp. 285-305.
(Journal Article), 1993
[citation]
Research Statement
I am writing a book provisionally entitled "Heaven's Purge: Purgatory in Late Antiquity."
Research Keywords, Regions of Interest and Languages:
Keywords:
Late Antiquity (2); Purgatory
Regions:
Europe (36); France (9); British Isles (15); Mediterranean Sea (2); Germany (6)
Languages:
French (143); German (111); Latin (12); Portuguese (26); Russian (28)
Research Projects
Hell and Its Afterlife [details]
Purgatory in Late Antiquity [details]
Current Courses
HIST 4030-1 Age of Attila the Hun
HIST 4990-2 Senior Seminar
HIST 6030-1 Age of Attila the Hun
Courses I Teach
HIST 3040 Medieval England
HIST 4030 Age of Attila the Hun
HIST 4105 Med/Ren Christ Practice
HIST 4990 Senior Seminar
HIST 4990 Senior Seminar
HIST 6030 Age of Attila the Hun
HIST 7720 Colloquium on Early Medieval Europe
HIST 7820 Sem-Medieval Hist
HONOR 4472 Christian Death & the Afterlife (AD 100-1500)
Awards
2008
Faculty Fellow Award - University of Utah
2006
Virgil C. Aldrich Fellow - Tanner Humanities Center