Professor William E. Klingshirn
William E. Klingshirn (email; AB, Holy Cross, 1977; AM, PhD, Stanford, 1982, 1985), ordinary professor and department chair, specializes in the history and culture of the late antique Mediterranean world. His current research is focused on diviners in the Roman empire, and especially on the nature of their expertise and their place in urban society. Professor Klingshirn has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1988-89; 2006-07) and the American Council of Learned Societies (2000-01). He is past president of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS) and a member of the editorial committee of Translated Texts for Historians. In fall 2007 he was appointed to the Board of Editors of Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion. A CUA faculty member since 1985, he has taught a wide range of courses in classics, ancient history, Latin, Greek, early Christianity, and late antiquity, regularly participates in the Christian Tradition sequence of the Honors Program, and serves as one of two Associate Directors of the Center for the Study of Early Christianity. |
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courses taught and upcoming
- LAT 705, Patristic Seminar-Caesarius of Arles
- GL 755, Greek and Latin Epigraphy
- GR 208, Sophocles
- HSHU 101, The Christian Tradition I: From Jesus to Muhammad
- LAT 465, Advanced Latin Seminar
- LAT 509, Intensive Elementary Latin
- LAT 515, Roman Historiography
- LAT 524, Julius Caesar
- LAT 528, Roman Lyric
- LAT 579, Roman Epistolography
- LAT 609, Gregory of Tours
- LAT 707, The Later Roman Empire
- CLAS 205/HIST 305, History of the Ancient Mediterranean I
- CLAS 206/HIST 314, History of the Ancient Mediterranean II
- CLAS 302, Greek and Roman Religion
- CLAS 305, The Roman Family
- CLAS 321/521, Numismatic Workshop
- CLAS 572, The Mediterranean World of Late Antiquity
- CLAS 621, Gibbon’s Decline and Fall
Books
- Caesarius of Arles: The Making of a Christian Community in Late Antique Gaul (Cambridge, 1994). Awarded the 1996 James Henry Breasted Prize by the American Historical Association.
- Caesarius of Arles: Life, Testament, Letters (Liverpool, 1994).
- The Limits of Ancient Christianity: Essays on Late Antique Thought and Culture in Honor of R. A. Markus (Ann Arbor, 1999), edited with Mark Vessey.
- The Early Christian Book (Washington, DC, 2007), edited with Linda Safran.
Selected recent Articles and book chapters
- “Cultural Geography: Roman North Africa,” in A Companion to Augustine, ed. Mark Vessey with the assistance of Shelley Reid (Oxford, 2012), 24-39.
- "Defining the Sortes Sanctorum: Gibbon, Du Cange, and Early Christian Lot Divination," Journal of Early Christian Studies 10 (2002), 77-130.
- "Isidore of Seville's Taxonomy of Magicians and Diviners," Traditio 58 (2003), 59-90.
- "Divination and the Disciplines of Knowledge according to Augustine," in Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions, ed. Karla Pollmann and Mark Vessey (Oxford, 2005), 113-40.
- "Christian Divination in Late Roman Gaul: the Sortes Sangallenses," in Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, ed. Sarah Iles Johnston and Peter T. Struck (Leiden, 2005), 99-128.
- "Inventing the sortilegus: Lot Divination and Cultural Identity in Italy, Rome, and the Provinces," in Religion in Republican Italy, ed. Celia E. Schultz and Paul B. Harvey, Jr. (Cambridge, 2006), 137–61.
- "Comer y beber con los muertos: Mónnica de Tagaste y la adivinación de los sueños beréber" (trans. Enrique A. Eguiarte), Augustinus 52 (2007), 127–31.
