Sean L. Field (NHC Fellow, 2023–24)

Sean L. Field holds a PhD from Northwestern University and is currently professor of history at the University of Vermont, where he has taught since 2003. Field is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and a Correspondant étranger of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. His translation of Jacques Dalarun, To Govern is to Serve: An Essay on Medieval Democracy, was published by Cornell University Press in 2023. He is the author or editor of 14 other books, including A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy: The Life of Clare of Rimini (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), The Deeds of Philip Augustus: An English Translation of Rigord’s Gesta Philippi Augusti (Cornell University Press, 2022), and Courting Sanctity: Holy Women and the Capetians (Cornell University Press, 2019). Field has been a Fulbright Fellow and a University of Vermont University Scholar, and is particularly proud to have received the CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies from the Medieval Academy of America.

Selected Publications

• Dalarun, Jacques, Sean L. Field, and Valerio Cappozzo. A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy: The Life of Clare of Rimini. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
• Field, Sean L. Courting Sanctity: Holy Women and the Capetians. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019.
• Colonna, Giovanni, and Stefania. Visions of Sainthood in Medieval Rome: The Lives of Margherita Colonna. Edited by Larry F. Field and Lezlie S. Knox. Translated by Sean L. Field. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017.
• Field, Sean L. The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor: The Trials of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012.
• Field, Sean L. Isabelle of France: Capetian Sanctity and Franciscan Identity in the Thirteenth Century. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.