Dr. Blake Beattie joined the faculty at the University of Louisville in 1994. He is a specialist in the history of later medieval Europe, with primary interests in the Avignon papacy and in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy.
Education
Ph.D. Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 1992.
Recent Publications
Angelus Pacis. The Legation of Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, 1326-1334, The Medieval Mediterranean, vol. 67 (Brill: Leiden & Boston, 2007).
“Catherine of Siena and the Papacy,” in A Companion to Catherine of Siena, ed. C. Muessig et al. (Brill: Leiden & Boston, 2012), 73-98.
“Die Kardinäle und das kulturelle Leben im päpstlichen Avignon,” in Geschichte des Kardinalats im Mittelalter, ed. Jürgen Dendorfer & Ralf Lützelschwab, Päpste und Papsttum 39 (Hersemann: Stuttgart 2011), 281-301.
"The Antipope Who Wasn't There: Three Formal Submissions to Pope John XXII," in La vie culturelle, intellectuelle et scientifique a la cour des papes d’Avignon, ed. J. Hamesse (Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales: 2006), 197-236.
“A Curial Sermon by Cardinal Bertrand du Poujet,” Mediaeval Studies 67 (2005), 75-98.
“Coram Papa Preaching and Rhetorical Community at Papal Avignon,” in Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages, ed. Carolyn Muessig (Brill, 2002), 63-86.
