Terror of History Mystics, Heretics, And Witches

Frederick Gregory
University of Florida
Ph.D., Harvard University

Frederick Gregory is Professor of History of Science at the University of Florida, where he has taught for 25 years.

Professor Gregory earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Wheaton College. After graduating with a seminary degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Wenham, Massachusetts, he completed his Master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin and went on to Harvard University for his Ph.D. in the history of science…

Brad S. Gregory
University of Notre Dame
Ph.D., Princeton University

Brad S. Gregory is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He holds five university degrees, including undergraduate and advanced degrees in both history and philosophy. He received a B.S. in history from Utah State University; B.A. and Licentiate degrees in philosophy from the Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium; an M.A. in history from the University of Arizona; and a Ph.D. in history from Princeton University…

William R. Cook is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the State University of New York at Geneseo, where he has taught since 1970. He received his Bachelor’s degree cum laude at Wabash College and his Ph.D. from Cornell University.

Professor Cook teaches courses in medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation history as well as the history of the Bible and of Christianity. His books include Images of St. Francis of Assisi and Francis of Assisi: The Way of Poverty and Humility.

Professor Cook received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1974. In 1992, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education named him New York State’s Professor of the Year.

Professor Cook and Professor Ronald B. Herzman have been collaborating intensively since 1973 when they team-taught a course at SUNY-Geneseo called "The Age of Chaucer." Subsequent courses included "The Age of Dante" and "The Age of Francis of Assisi." Both prolific writers in their own right, together they have published The Medieval World View with the Oxford University Press, currently in its second edition. In 2003, Professors Cook and Herzman were presented with the Medieval Academy of America’s first-ever CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies.

Govind Sreenivasan
Brandeis University
Ph.D., Harvard University


Govind Sreenivasan is Associate Professor of History at Brandeis University. He completed his undergraduate work at McGill University in Canada and received his Master’s and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Prior to taking his position at Brandeis University, Dr. Sreenivasan taught at Cornell University.

Professor Sreenivasan is the recipient of Brandeis University’s Michael Walzer Award for Distinction in Teaching. He is the author of The Peasants of Ottobeuren: A Rural Society in Early Modern Europe, 1487-1723.

Professor Sreenivasan has received research grants from the German Academic Exchange Service and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His research interests include early modern Europe, rural economy and society, and the Protestant and Catholic Reformations.





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Brian M. Fagan is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he has taught since 1967. Born in England, Dr. Fagan earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in archaeology and anthropology from Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Professor Fagan’s excavations in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) from 1959-1965 earned him recognition as a pioneer of multidisciplinary African history. He has served as Director of the Bantu Studies Project of the British Institute for Eastern Africa, Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana, and Visiting Professor at Whittier College and the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Professor Fagan is the recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California at Santa Barbara. His other awards include the Public Service Award of the Society of Professional Archaeologists and the Public Education Award of the Society for American Archaeology. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1973.

Dr. Fagan’s many books include People of the Earth and In the Beginning, two widely used university and college textbooks in archaeology and prehistory. His other works include The Rape of the Nile, The Adventure of Archaeology, and The Little Ice Age. He also edited The Oxford Companion to Archaeology…

Phillip Cary is the Director of the Philosophy Program at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. He is also a scholar-in-Residence at the Templeton Honors College. He received his undergraduate training from Washington University (St. Louis) with a double degree in English literature and philosophy. He earned his M.A. in philosophy and a Ph.D. in philosophy and religious studies from Yale University. Prior to taking his position at Eastern, Professor Cary taught at Yale University, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Hartford. As the Arthur J. Ennis Post-Doctoral Fellow at Villanova University, Dr. Cary taught the nationally recognized undergraduate core humanities seminars on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance thought, and on modern thought…

Louis Markos
Houston Baptist University
Ph.D., University of Michigan


Louis Markos is Professor of English at Houston Baptist University where he has been teaching since 1991. He received his B.A. in English and history from Colgate University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan.

Professor Markos specializes in British romantic poetry, literary theory, and the classics and teaches courses in all three of these areas, as well as in Victorian poetry and prose, 17th-century poetry and prose, mythology, epic, and film.

Professor Markos has received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the University of Michigan and was named the Opal Goolsby Teacher of the Year at Houston Baptist…

Kenneth W. Harl
Tulane University
Ph.D., Yale University

Kenneth W. Harl is Professor of Classical and Byzantine History at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he has been teaching since 1978. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Trinity College and went on to earn his Master’s and Ph.D. from Yale University.

Dr. Harl specializes in the Mediterranean civilizations of Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Byzantium. He has published numerous articles and is the author of Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East, A.D. 180-275 and Coinage in the Roman Economy, 300 B.C. to A.D. 700. He is also a veteran field researcher who has served since 1999 on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Archaeology…

Phillip Cary
Eastern University
Ph.D., Yale University

Phillip Cary is the Director of the Philosophy Program at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. He is also a scholar-in-Residence at the Templeton Honors College.
He received his undergraduate training from Washington University (St. Louis) with a double degree in English literature and philosophy. He earned his M.A. in philosophy and a Ph.D. in philosophy and religious studies from Yale University…
Long before he was declared a saint by the Church, Augustine gained profound influence as both a Church Father and a Christian Platonist philosopher—defending the doctrine of the Trinity, defining the epochal idea of religious grace, delving into the inner relationship between God and soul, and much more.
Today, according to Professor Phillip Cary, Augustine is recognizable even to non-Christians as the most important Christian writer outside of the Bible.
Yet Augustine was also a man—a rhetorician trained in the Roman way whose life and discovery of his calling make for one of the most fascinating stories in the history of religious philosophy.

Louis Markos
Houston Baptist University
Ph.D., University of Michigan


Louis Markos is Professor of English at Houston Baptist University where he has been teaching since 1991. He received his B.A. in English and history from Colgate University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan…