Andrew Traver, M.A., M.S.L., Ph.D.

Dr. Andrew Traver is a Professor of Ancient and Medieval History. He holds a Ph.D. from the University a Toronto and a licentiate from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. His research covers the gamut of ancient and medieval Europe, focusing in particular of the intellectual history of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. He has edited an interdisciplinary biographical encyclopedia of the ancient world, From Polis to Empire, as well as several volumes of the philosophical and theological works of the scholastic authors John Duns Scotus (1266-1308) and William of Saint-Amour (c. 1200-1272). He has also translated a collection of exorcisms composed by the Observant Franciscan Alessandro Albertino, The Hammer against Demons (1620), and published numerous scholarly articles. His main research interests centers on the integration of the mendicant orders into the intellectual milieu of the thirteenth century, most notably at the University of Paris.

Area of Expertise

Medieval Institutional and Intellectual History, with a focus on Latin manuscripts, paleography, and text editing, the mendicant orders, medieval universities, and the secular masters of theology at the University of Paris.