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F. Thomas Luongo Associate Professor Tulane University Department of History

F. Thomas Luongo

Associate Professor
504-862-8620
Hebert 215C

Education

Ph.D., Notre Dame, 1998

Biography

Professor Luongo is Eva-Lou Joffrion Edwards Professor at Tulane and teaches Medieval European history as well as topics in pre-modern religion and Medieval and Renaissance Italy. He is a historian of religion, with a special interest in mysticism and female sanctity in the later Middle Ages.

Selected Publications

“Catherine of Siena, Auctor,” in Women Intellectuals and Leaders of the Medieval World. Edited by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and John Van Engen. Boydell and Brewer, forthcoming 2020.

“Birgitta and Catherine’s Textual Communities.” In Sanctity and Female Authorship: Birgitta of Sweden & Catherine of Siena. Edited by Unn Falkeid and Maria H. Oen. Routledge, 2019.

“God’s Words or Birgitta’s? Birgitta of Sweden as Author.” In A Companion to Birgitta of Sweden. Edited by Maria H. Oen with Claire Sahlin. Brill, 2019.

“Inspiration and Imagination: Visionary Authorship in the Early Manuscripts of the Revelations of Birgitta of Sweden,” Speculum 93 (2018).
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/699224?mobileUi=0&journalCode=spc

"Siena," in Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418. Edited by David Wallace. Oxford University Press, 2016.

The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena, Cornell University Press, 2006.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801443954/the-saintly-politics-of-catherine-of-siena/