Robert Llizo, PhD Contact Information College of Arts and HumanitiesPhilosophy, History, Law, and Society Associate Professor of History Education PhD, History (Medieval and Early Modern Studies), Claremont Graduate University MA, History (Medieval and Renaissance), California State University, Los Angeles BA, History, Biola University Courses Taught HNRS 1060 Honors Lecture II HNRS 1310 Walking to Piraeus: The Ancient Greek World HNRS 1640 All Roads Lead to Rome: The Ancient Roman & Early Christian Worlds HNRS 2020 Honors Writing III HNRS 2030 Honors Lecture III HNRS 2060 Honors Lecture IV HNRS 2311 Faith, Reason & Romance: The Medieval & Renaissance Worlds HNRS 2640 Enlightenment & Modernity: 1600 – 1900 HNRS 3030 Honors Lecture V HNRS 3060 Honors Lecture VI HNRS 3610 The Last Two Hundred Years: 1800 to the Present HNRS 3640 The Story of Scripture: The Biblical Narrative from Genesis to Revelation HIST 2311 Western Civilization I HIST 2312 Western Civilization II HIST 4310 The Medieval World HIST 5384 The Medieval World PHIL 1313 Introduction to Philosophy Teaching Focus Classical education, Great Books, Medieval and Early Modern European History, European Intellectual History: Aquinas to Descartes, Early to Late Medieval Christianity, Medieval Spain, Medieval Christian Views of Islam, Tudor/Stuart England Publications The Urban Asceticism of St. Francis, Mellen Press, forthcoming. “Glimpses of Paradise: The Music of John Tavenner, Henryk,Gorecki, Ivan Moody and Arvo Part,” CIVA Special Issue, Iconography and Orthodoxy (August 1998). Book Chapter: Translation of Robert de Sorbon’s “De Matrimonium” for Dr. Greg Peters,The Monkhood of All Believers: The Monastic Foundation of Christian Spirituality Baker Academic, Nov. 2018 Book Chapter: Translation of “The Ordinals of Christ” in A Companion to Priesthood and Holy Orders in the Middle Ages (Greg Peters and C. Colt Anderson, eds.) Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers, 2015 Book Chapter: “Miguel de Cervantes,” in The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization (John Mark Reynolds, General Editor) Bloomington, MN: Bethany House Publishers, 2011 Book Review: Salam Rasi’s “Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World: Abdisho of Nisibis and the Apologetic Tradition,” in Philosophia Christi (Upcoming) Book Review: “Perfecting Human Actions: St. Thomas Aquinas on Human Participation in Eternal Law,” by John Rhiza, Sixteenth Century Journal (Spring 2011). Book Review: “Mystical Metal of Gold: Essays on Alchemy and Renaissance Culture,” ed. Stanton J. Linton, Sixteenth Century Journal (Spring 2010). Book Review, H. Hossien’s and O. Leamann’s “History of Islamic Philosophy,” Philosophia Christi (Spring 2005) Book Review, “The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy” (D.H. Frank and O. Leamann, ed.), Philosophia Christi (Fall 2008) Article: “The Vision of God: St. Thomas Aquinas on the Beatific Vision and Resurrected Bodies,” in Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University (17.2, 2019) Article: “Jesus and the Pharisees,” in The City: A Publication of Houston Baptist University (Vol. VIII, Issue 1) Summer 2015 Conferences and Presentations Lecture, “Here from the dead let poetry rise up”: Faith, Reason, and Poetry in Dante’s Purgatorio, given at the International Theological Institute, Trumau, Austria. October 17, 2024 Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy, June 2-4, 2021 Lecture, Christianity and Islam in the Song of El Cid. A lecture given to the Department of Spanish Language Studies at Compton College, Compton, CA, 7/9/2019 Lecture Series, How Athens Became a Suburb of Jerusalem: Greek Philosophy and the Early Church, given at Blessed John Henry Newman Catholic Church, 6/17-8/12, 2018 47th International Medieval Congress, University of Michigan, Kalamazoo (5/10/12-5/13/12) Paper presented: Nitria and Sitria, A Tale of Two “Deserts”: The Egyptian Desert and Peter Damian’s Vita Sancti Romualdi 46th International Medieval Congress, University of Michigan, Kalamazoo. (5/12/11-5/15/11) Paper presented: “’All the more reason to take up residence there, since the devil haunts it’: The Bishop as Ascetic Struggler in Saint Gregory the Great’s Dialogues 44th International Medieval Congress, University of Michigan, Kalamazoo (5/10/09). Paper presented: “Odo of Cluny’s Vita Geraldi: A Monastic Life?” for session “Monastic Life and Monastic Lives.” 43rd International Medieval Congress, University of Michigan, Kalamazoo (5/8/08-5/11/08) 42nd International Medieval Congress, Univeristy of Michigan, Kalamazoo (5/11/07-5/14/07) Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA) Conference, Biola University, 3/96 Paper: “Image and Incarnation in Athanasius, Cyril of Alexandria, and Maximus the Confessor: Their Contributions to the Theology of the Icon” Phi Alpha Theta Conference, California State University, Fullerton, 4/13/91 Paper: “Joachimism and the Rise of Franciscan Spirituality, 1250-1300” Awards and Honors Institutional Fellowship, Claremont Graduate School, 9/92-5/93 Institutional Fellowship, Claremont Graduate University, 9/02-5/03 Institutional Fellowship, Claremont Graduate University, 9/01-5/02