Thomas F. X. Noble
Robert M. Conway Director of the Medieval Institute
and Professor of History
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1974
Thomas.Noble.8@nd.edu

Areas of Recent Teaching
· Carolingian History
· Papal history
· Late antique and medieval Rome

Areas of Recent Research
· The connections among art, theology, and politics
· Papal history

Recent Honors and Awards
· Elected Fellow, Medieval Academy of America, 2004
· Elected Fellow, S.I.S.M.E.L (the Societa Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino), 2002
· Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, 1999-2000

Recent Publications
· “The Vocabulary of Vision and Worship in the Early Carolingian Period,” in Giselle de Nie, Karl F. Morrison, Herbert Kessler, and Marco Mostert eds., Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Papers from “Verbal and Pictorial Imaging: Representing and Accessing Experience of the Invisible: 400-1000” (Utrecht, 11-13 December 2003). Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 13. Turnhout: Brepols, 2004, pp. 215-39.
· “The Roman Elite from Constantine to Charlemagne,” Acta ad Archaeologiam et Artium Historiam Pertinentia, 17 (2003), 13-25.
· “Gregory of Tours and the Roman Church,” in The World of Gregory of Tours, eds. Ian Wood and Kathleen Mitchell (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002), pp. 145-61.
· "Topography, Celebration and Power: The Making of Papal Rome in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries," in Frans Theuws and Mayke de Jong, eds., Places of Power in the Early Middle Ages (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2001), pp. 45-91

Departmental Page
http://www.nd.edu/~history/faculty/profiles/nobletf.shtml