Dr. Brodman is a specialist in medieval history, and has a particular interest in the history of Spain, the history of medieval social welfare policy, and the history of religious institutions. He is the immediate past President of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain. He is also the founder and director of LIBRO : The Library of Iberian Resources Online, a full-text library of monographs and other resources in Iberian history. On the undergraduate level, Dr. Brodman teaches the Birth of Europe, Medieval Civilization, the History of the Crusades, the History of Spain, the History of Christianity, Introduction to Historical Methods, and World History. Graduate courses include the Seminar and Studies in Medieval History. Dr. Brodman's publications have emphasized the areas of medieval law, social policy and ecclesiastical institutions. Currently, he is working on a broad study of the opera caritatis in medieval Europe. He holds the Ph.D. degree from the University of Virginia, and is currently professor of history in the University of Central Arkansas.
Bibliography of Published Works
__________,Edward Anson and Thomas Kaiser, Perceptions of Reality: A Sourcebook for the Social History of Western Civilization. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 1980.
Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain: The Order of Merced on the Christian-Islamic Frontier. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. Internet Edition (http://libro.uca.edu/rc/captives.htm), 1998.
L'Ordre de la Merce -- El rescat de captius a l'Espanya de les croades. Barcelona: Edicions dels Quaderns Crema, 1990.
A User's Guide to the Internet and LAN, University of Central Arkansas, 1996.
Charity and Welfare: Hospitals and the Poor in Medieval Catalonia. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
Internet Edition : http://libro.uca.edu/charity/charity.htm
Charity and Religion in Medieval Europe, in progress.
“Hospitals in the Middle Ages,” in The Blackwell Companion to the Middle Ages, ed. Edward English and Carol Lansing, in press.
“Innocent III and the Church’s Responsibility toward the Poor,” in press.
“Community Identity and the Redemption of Captives: Comparative Perspectives Across the Mediterranean,” Anuario de estudios medievales, 36, no. 1 (2006): 241-52.
“Unequal in Charity? Women and Hospitals in Medieval Catalonia,” Medieval Encounters 12 (2006); 26-36.
“Religion and Discipline in the Hospitals of Medieval France,” in The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice, ed. Barbara Bowers (Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2007), 123-32.
“Rule and Identity: The Case of the Military Orders,” The Catholic Historical Review 87 (2001), 383-400.
"The Rhetoric of Ransoming: A Contribution to the Debate over Crusading in Medieval Iberia," Tolerance and Intolerance: Social Conflict in the Age of Crusades, ed. Michael Gervers and James M. Powell (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001), 41-52.
"Fable and Royal Power: The Origins of the Mercedarian Foundation Story," Journal of Medieval History 25 (1999): 229-41.
"Shelters and Segregation: Lepers in Medieval Catalonia," On the Social Origins of Medieval Institutions: Essays in Honor of Joseph F. O’Callaghan, ed. Theresa Vann (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1998), 35-45.
"Ransomers or Royal Agents: The Mercedarians and the Aragonese Crown in the Fourteenth Century," Iberia and the Mediterranean World of the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Robert I. Burns, S.J., eds. P.E. Cheveddan, D.J. Kagay and P.G. Padilla (Leiden and New York: E.J. Brill, 1996), 239-51.
"The Origins of Hospitallerism in Medieval Catalunya," in Iberia and the Mediterranean World of the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Robert I. Burns, S.J., ed. Larry J. Simon. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995), 291-302.
"Charity and Ransoming Along the Christian-Islamic Frontier of Medieval Spain," TVI (Terrorism, Violence, Insurgency) Report 11, no. 3(1995): 6-9.
"What is a Soul Worth? Pro anima Bequests in the Municipal Legislation of Reconquest Spain," Medievalia et Humanistica 20 (1994): 15-23.
"Sheltering the Homeless: Hospitals in Medieval Catalonia," Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, 14(1993): 1-12.
"Exceptis militibus et sanctis: Restrictions upon Ecclesiastical Ownership of Land in the Foral Legislation of Medieval Castile and Valencia," En la España medieval 15(1992): 63-75.
"Charity and Captives on the Medieval Spanish Frontier," Anuario Medieval, 1(1989): 25-36.
"Municipal Ransoming Law on the Medieval Spanish Frontier," Speculum, 60 (1985): 318-30.
"The Mercedarian Order: The Problem of Royal Patronage during the Reign of James I," Jaime I y su epoca (Saragossa, 1982), 3:71-76.
"Military Redemptionism and the Castilian Reconquest," Military Affairs, 44 (1980): 24-27.
"The Origins of the Mercedarian Order: A Reassessment," Studia monastica, 19 (1977): 353-360.
Encyclopedia Articles:
"Boabdil," World Book Encyclopedia, 1996 ed., 2:427.
“Castile and Aragon,” World Book Encyclopedia, 1996 ed., 2:279-80.
“Cid,” World Book Encyclopedia, 1996 ed., 4:552.
“Moors,” World Book Encyclopedia, 1996 ed., 13:797.
"The Mercedarian Order", "Petrus Nolasco", Lexikon des Mittelalters, 6 (Munich, 1994-)
"Religious Orders", Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia, ed. E. Michael Gerli (New York: Routlege, 2003): 700-04.
"Mercedarians," Encyclopedia of Monasticism, ed. William M. Johnston (Chicago and London, 2000), 2: 854-856.
“Medieval Caritative Orders,” International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages – Online, ed. Patrick Geary, et al. University of California at Los Angeles Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Brepols, http://www.brepolis.net (2005).
“Medieval Hospitals,” International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages – Online, ed. Patrick Geary, et al. University of California at Los Angeles Center for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Brepols, http://www.brepolis.net (2005).
“Merce, Ordre de la,” Dictionnaire des ordres militaires en Europe au Moyen Age, ed. Nicole Bériou and Philippe Josserand, Paris: Arthème Fayard, in press.
“Trinité, Ordre de la,” Dictionnaire des ordres militaires en Europe au Moyen Age, ed. Nicole Bériou and Philippe Josserand, Paris: Arthème Fayard, in press.
"Religious Orders", Encyclopedia of Medieval Iberia, ed. J. Michael Gerli (Routledge, 2003): 700-704.
Translations:
“Documents concerning the Spanish Military Orders,” and “Treaty of Cazola,” in Text and Community in Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim and Jewish Sources, ed. Olivia Remie Constable (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), 156-163.
"The Sixth Council of Toledo," Classical Folia, 33 (1979): 5-18.
Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt by Mark R, Cohen in Shofar, in press.
Medicina y enfermedad en la corte de Carlos III el Noble de Navarra (1387-1425) by Fernando Serrano Larráyoz in Mediterranean Historical Review, in press.
Medicine in the Crusades: Warfare, Wounds and the Medieval Surgeon by Piers D. Mitchell in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 61 (2006): 85-86.
Encounters between Enemies: Captivity and Ransom in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem by Yvonne Friedman, in Medieval Encounters, 9 (2003): 182-83 .
Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain by Joseph F. O’Callaghan in The Catholic Historical Review 89(2003): 753-54.
Diplomatarium of the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia: The Registered Charters of its Conqueror, Jaume I, 1257-1276. Volume 3, Transition in Crusader Valencia: Years of Triumph, Years of War, 1265-1270, edited by Robert I. Burns, S.J, The Catholic Historical Review 88(2002): 349-50.
La liberazione del ‘captivi’ tra Christianità e Islam. Oltre la crociata e il Gihad: toleranza e servizio umanitario. Atti del Congresso interdisciplinare di studi storici (Roma, 16-19 settembre 1998), edited by Guilio Cipollone in Medieval Encounters 8 (2002): 96-98.
New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 5, edited by David Abulafia, AARHMS Newsletter and Reviews, 2001 (http://www.uca.edu/divisions/academic/history/aarhms).
Structures of reform : the Mercedarian Order in the Spanish Golden Age by Bruce Taylor, Medieval Encounters 7(2001): 247-49.
Carmel in Medieval Catalonia by Jill R. Webster, Medieval Encounters 7 (2001), 121-22.
The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VII by Bernard F. Reilly, The Catholic Historical Review 85 (1999): 608-9.
La Orden de Santiago en el siglo XV: La Provincia de Castilla by Pedro Andrés Porras Arboledas, Speculum 74 (1999): 811-13.
Per Déu o per diners: Els mendicants i el clergat al País Valencià by Jill R. Webster, The Catholic Historical Review 85 (1999): 72-73.
Religion and Society in Spain, c. 1492 by John Edwards, Catholic Historical Review 83(1997): 324-35.
The Learned King: The Reign of Alfonso X of Castile by Joseph O'Callaghan, The American Historical Review 100 (1995): 149.
Cristianità-Islam: Cattività e liberazione in nome di Dio. Il tempo di Innocenzo III dopo 'il 1187 by Giulio Cipollone, Catholic Historical Review 80 (1994): 136-37.
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia by Paul Freedman, The American Historical Review 97 (1992): 1197-98.
Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain by Kenneth Baxter Wolf, The American Historical Review 94 (1989): 1084.
La mensa capitular de la iglesia de San Salvador de Zaragoza by Maria Rosa Guttierrez Iglesias, Catholic Historical Review, 69 (1983): 99-100.
Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages: Comparative Perspectives on Social and Cultural Formation by Thomas Glick, Hispanic-American Historical Review, 61 (1981): 99-100.
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