EDUCATION:BA Oberlin College (1958)
BD Union Theological Seminary (1963)
PhD Duke University (1966)
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DAVID BURR
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION:
BA Oberlin College (1958)
BD Union Theological Seminary (1963)
PhD Duke University (1966)
EMPLOYMENT:
Virginia Tech, 1966-2001
Currently Emeritus Professor of History
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS:
Visiting Scholar, Greyfriars, Oxford University, 1984-85
Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, 1988-89 (Currently
Life Member, Clare Hall)
FOREIGN TEACHING:
Corso Residenziale di Storia Religiosa (Secoli XIII-XV), Assisi, 27
June - 10 July, 1993 (Sponsored by Centro Interuniversitario di Studi
Francescani, taught in Italian)
Directeur d'études invité, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales, Paris, May-June, 1996 (taught in French)
MAJOR GRANTS:
1984-85, NEH
1988-89, NEH
PUBLICATIONS:
Book-length (in reverse chronological order):
Angelo Clareno, A Chronicle or History of the Seven Tribulations of the Order of the Brothers Minor, translated by David Burr and E. Randolph Daniel, Saint Bonaventure, NY, Franciscan Institute Publications, 2005.
The Spiritual Franciscans, University Park, Penn State
Press, 2001.
Winner of:
Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History
John Gilmary Shea Prize for Church History
Otto Gründler Prize for Medieval Studies
Pierre de Jean Olieu: Franciscain Persécuté, Friburg,
Switzerland, Editions Universitaires de Friburg,1997.
Olivi's Peaceable Kingdom: A Reading of
The Apocalypse Commentary, Philadelphia,
University of Pennsylvania Press. 1993.
Petrus Ioannis Olivi's Quaestio de Usu
Paupere and Tractatus de Usu Paupere,
Florence, Leonardo Olschki, 1992.
Olivi and Franciscan Poverty, Philadelphia,
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.
Translated into Italian as Olivi e la
Povertà Francescana, Milano, Biblioteca
Francescana, 1993.
Eucharistic Presence and Conversion in Late
Thirteenth-Century Franciscan Thought,
Philadelphia, American Philosophical
Society, 1984.
The Persecution of Peter Olivi, Philadelphia,
American Philosophical Society, 1976.
Article-length (in chronological order):
"Ockham, Scotus and the Censure at Avignon,"
Church History 38 (1968), 144-59
"The Apocalyptic Element in Olivi's Critique
of Aristotle," Church History 40 (1971),
15-29
"Petrus Ioannis Olivi and the Philosophers,"
Franciscan Studies 34 (1971), 41-71
"Scotus and Transubstantiation," Mediaeval
Studies 34 (1972), 336-60
"Olivi on Marriage: The Conservative as
Prophet," Journal of Mediaeval and
Renaissance Studies 2 (1972), 183-204
"Olivi and the Limits of Intellectual
Freedom," Contemporary Reflections on the
Medieval Christian Tradition, Durham, Duke
University Press, 1974, 185-99
"Quantity and Eucharistic Presence: The
Debate from Olivi through Ockham,"
Collectanea Franciscana 4 (1974), 5-44
"Olivi and Baptismal Grace," Franziskanische
Studien 57 (1975), 1-24
"Poverty as a Constituent Element in Olivi's
Thought," Poverty in the Middle Ages,
Werl/West., 1975, 71-78
"Peter Olivi: On Poverty and Revenue,"
Franciscan Studies 18 (1980), 18-58
(in collaboration with David Flood).
"The Date of Olivi's Commentary on Matthew,"
Collectanea Franciscana 53 (1983), 23-40
"Olivi's Apocalyptic Timetable," Journal of
Medieval and Renaissance Studies 11 (1981),
237-60
"Bonaventure, Olivi Franciscan Eschatology,"
Collectanea franciscana 53 (1983), 23-40
"Apokalyptische Erwartung und die
Enstehung der Usus-pauper-Kontroverse,"
Wissenschaft und Weisheit 47 (1984), 84-99
"Olivi-Forschung: Einfuhrung," Wissenschaft
und Weisheit 47 (1984), 81-83
"Joachim of Fiore," "Peter Olivi," and
"Richard of Middleton" articles in
Dictionary of the Middle Ages
"The Correctorium Controversy and the
Origins of the Usus Pauper Controversy,"
Speculum 60 (1985), 331-42
"Olivi, Apocalyptic Expectation, and
Visionary Experience," Traditio 41 (1985),
273-88
"Franciscan Exegesis and Saint Francis as
Apocalyptic Angel," in Monks, Nuns and
Friars in Mediaeval Society, Sewanee,
Press of the University of the South,
1989, 51-62.
"Olivi, the Lectura super Apocalypsim
and Franciscan Exegetical Tradition,"
in Francescanesimo e Cultura Universitaria,
Assisi, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane,
1990, 115-35.
"Mendicant Approaches to the Apocalypse,"
in The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages,
Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1992,
89-102.
"Islam and Antichrist in Medieval Franciscan
Exegesis," Medieval Western Views of Islam,
New York, Garland Press, 1996, 131-52.
"Exegetical Theory and Ecclesiastical
Condemnation: The Case of Olivi's Apocalypse
Commentary,"in Neue Richtungen in der
Hoch- und Spätmittelalterlichen Bibelexegese,
München, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1996, 149-
62.
"Olivi on Prophecy," Cristianesimo nella Storia
17/2 (1996), 369-91.
"Angelo Clareno et le voeu d'obéissance,"
Cahiers du Centre de Recherches Historiques
16 (1966), 37-41.
"Olivi, Prous, and The Separation of
Apocalypse from Eschatology," in That
Others May Know and Love, St. Bonaventure,
Franciscan Institute, 1997, 285-304.
"Na Prous Boneta and Olivi," Collectanea
franciscana 67 (1997), 477-500.
"Did the Beguins Understand Olivi?" in Pierre
de Jean Olivi (1248-1298), Paris, Librairie
Philosophique J. Vrin, 1999, 309-318
"Raymond Déjean, Franciscan Renegade,"
Franciscan Studies 57 (1999), 57-78.
"L'Opera di Pietro di Giovanni Olivi,"
Archivum Franciscanum Historicum
91 (1998), 327-335.
"L'Opera di Pietro di Giovanni Olivi,"
in Pietro di Giovanni Olivi,
Grottaferrata, College of Saint Bonaventure
1999, 327-334.
"The Antichrist and the Jews in Four
Thirteenth-century Apocalypse
Commentaries," in Friars and
Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance,
Leiden, Brill, 2004, 23-38.
"History: What is it Good For?" Franciscan Studies
63 (2005), 57-67.
"John XXII and the Spirituals: Is Angelo Telling the
Truth?" Franciscan Studies 63 (2005), 271-287.