Lerner, Robert E(arl)
LERNER, Robert E(arl)
LERNER, Robert E(arl). American, b. 1940. Genres: History. Career: Princeton University, NJ, instructor in history, 1963-64; Western Reserve University, Cleveland, assistant professor of history, 1964-67; Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, assistant professor, 1967-71, associate professor, 1971-76, professor of history, 1976-, director of humanities, 1981-83, Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the Humanities. Publications: The Age of Adversity: Europe in the Fourteenth Century, 1968; The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages, 1972, 2nd ed., 1991; (co-author) One Thousand Years: Western Europe in the Middle Ages, 1974; The Powers of Prophecy, 1983; (co-author) World Civilizations, 1986, 9th ed., 1997; (co-author) Western Civilizations: Their History and Their Culture, 11th ed., 1988, 13th ed., 1998; (co-author) Johannes de Rupescissa, 1994; The Feast of Saint Abraham: Medieval Millenarians and the Jews, 2001. Address: Dept. of History, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, U.S.A. Online address: rlerner@northwestern.edu