Thomas J. Renna

Teaching Fields, History

Middle Ages, Ancient, France, Early World

Recipient of

  • Terry Ishihara Award for Extra-Curricular Involvement 1999,
  • House Family Award for Teacher Impact, 1992,
  • Landee Award for Teaching Excellence, 1984

Publications

  • The West in the Middle Ages (University Press of America, 1977),
  • “Zion and Jerusalem in the Psalms” in F. Van Fleteren and J.C. Schaubelt Augustine: Biblical Exegete (New York, 2001)
  • “Italian Mendicant Women and the Apocalypse” (forthcoming in Proceedings of the Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Conference) Villanova University ,
  • “Mary Magdalen in the Thirteenth Century,” Michigan Academician 30:1 (1998)

Professional Presentations

  • “Saints’ Lives as Sermons,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 2001,
  • “St. Clare of Montefalco and Prophecy: A Historical View,” International Congress on Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Villanova University, PA, 2000.
  • “Jerusalem for Christians, Jews and Muslims,” Thomas and Hilda Rush Distinguished Lectureship, Saginaw Valley State University, 1999.

Advisor for History Club.