College of Arts and Humanities
Philosophy, History, Law, and Society
Robert Llizo, PhD Profile and Contact Information
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
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HNRS 1060 Honors Lecture II
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HNRS 1310 Walking to Piraeus: The Ancient Greek World
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HNRS 1640 All Roads Lead to Rome: The Ancient Roman & Early Christian Worlds
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HNRS 2020 Honors Writing III
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HNRS 2030 Honors Lecture III
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HNRS 2060 Honors Lecture IV
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HNRS 2311 Faith, Reason & Romance: The Medieval & Renaissance Worlds
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HNRS 2640 Enlightenment & Modernity: 1600 鈥 1900
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HNRS 3030 Honors Lecture V
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HNRS 3060 Honors Lecture VI
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HNRS 3610 The Last Two Hundred Years: 1800 to the Present
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HNRS 3640 The Story of Scripture: The Biblical Narrative from Genesis to Revelation
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HIST 2311 Western Civilization I
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HIST 2312 Western Civilization II
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HIST 4310 The Medieval World
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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鈥檚 鈥淒e Matrimonium鈥 for Dr. Greg Peters,The Monkhood of All Believers: The Monastic Foundation of Christian Spirituality Baker Academic, Nov. 2018
- Book Chapter: Translation of 鈥淭he Ordinals of Christ鈥 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: 鈥淢iguel de Cervantes,鈥 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
听 - 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: 鈥淧erfecting Human Actions: St. Thomas Aquinas on Human Participation in Eternal Law,” by John Rhiza, Sixteenth Century Journal (Spring 2011).
- Book Review: 鈥淢ystical Metal of Gold: Essays on Alchemy and Renaissance Culture,鈥 ed. Stanton J. Linton, Sixteenth Century Journal (Spring 2010).
- Book Review, H. Hossien’s and O. Leamann’s 鈥淗istory 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听 (Fall 2008)
- Article: 鈥淭he Vision of God: St. Thomas Aquinas on the Beatific Vision and Resurrected Bodies,鈥 in Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University (17.2, 2019)
- Article: 鈥淛esus and the Pharisees,鈥 in The City: A Publication of Houston Baptist University (Vol. VIII, Issue 1) Summer 2015听
Conferences and Presentations
- Lecture, “Here from the dead let poetry rise up”: Faith, Reason, and Poetry in Dante’s听Purgatorio,听 given at the International Theological Institute, Trumau, Austria. October 17, 2024听
- Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy, June 2-4, 2021听听
- 听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听
- 听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听
- 听47th International Medieval Congress, University of Michigan, Kalamazoo (5/10/12-5/13/12) Paper presented: Nitria and Sitria, A Tale of Two 鈥淒eserts鈥: The Egyptian Desert and Peter Damian鈥檚听Vita Sancti Romualdi听
- 听46th International Medieval Congress, University of Michigan, Kalamazoo. (5/12/11-5/15/11) Paper presented: 鈥溾橝ll the more reason to take up residence there, since the devil haunts it鈥: The Bishop as Ascetic Struggler in Saint Gregory the Great鈥檚听Dialogues听
- 听44th International Medieval Congress, University of Michigan, Kalamazoo (5/10/09). Paper presented: 鈥淥do of Cluny鈥檚听Vita Geraldi: A Monastic Life?鈥 for session 鈥淢onastic Life and Monastic Lives.鈥听
- 听43rd International Medieval Congress, University of Michigan, Kalamazoo (5/8/08-5/11/08)听
- 听42nd International Medieval Congress, Univeristy of Michigan, Kalamazoo (5/11/07-5/14/07)听
- 听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”听
- 听Phi Alpha Theta Conference, California State University, Fullerton, 4/13/91 Paper: “Joachimism and the Rise of Franciscan Spirituality, 1250-1300”听
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