Dr Thomas A Fudge
Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Humanities
Qualifications
PhD (Medieval History) Cambridge University, PhD (Theology) Otago University, Master of Divinity - The Iliff School of Theology, BA Warner Pacific College
Contact
| Email: | tfudge@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Arts (E11) G58 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2584 (or +61 2 6773 2584 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3520 |
Dr Thomas A Fudge undertook his research leading to a PhD in medieval history under the direction of R.W. (Bob) Scribner at Cambridge where he wrote on the subject “Myth, Heresy and Propaganda in the Radical Hussite Movement, 1409-1437”. He has worked in many monastic libraries, in archives in eastern and central Europe, and in some of the world’s great academic libraries such as the Bodley in Oxford, Harvard, and the Vatican. He is one of the founders of the biennial conference The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice which also publishes a journal by the same name. Volume 10 in that series is currently being edited. Prior to taking up his appointment at UNE, he taught at Warner Pacific College (Portland Oregon), Clark College (Vancouver), the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand) and in the Texas prison system.
Areas of Teaching
Dr. Fudge is the coordinator for HIST 111 Medieval Europe. He is interested in the history of Christianity, especially in the medieval and reformation periods in general. He would welcome enquiries from students keen to undertake specific research within those broad areas or those interested in areas relating to his research fields enumerated below.
Research interests
Dr Thomas A Fudge is an historian of Christianity with particular interests in the European medieval and reformation periods. Within that frame of reference, he is especially interested in heresy, deviance, crusades, witch hunting, law, theology, movements of reform, Martin Luther, iconography, and alternative ways of understanding medieval history. He is a specialist on Jan Hus and Hussite history, having written five books on those subjects, the latest scheduled to appear under the Oxford University Press imprint. His current research is on medieval heresy in the later Middle Ages, and the trial of Jan Hus.
Publications
Books
The Trial of Jan Hus: Medieval Heresy and Criminal Procedure, New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2013.
The Memory and Motivation of Jan Hus, Medieval Priest and Martyr, Turnhout: Brepols, in press, forthcoming, 2013.
Jan Hus: Religious Reform and Social Revolution in Bohemia, London and New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2010, 387pp.
Christianity Without the Cross: A History of Salvation in Oneness Pentecostalism, Parkland, Florida: Universal Publishers, 2003, 402pp.
Daniel Warner and the Paradox of Religious Democracy in Nineteenth–Century America, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998, 397pp.
The Crusade against Heretics in Bohemia, 1418–1437: Sources and Documents for the Hussite Crusades, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002, 439pp.
The Magnificent Ride: The First Reformation in Hussite Bohemia, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998, 327pp.
Chapters in Books
“Listening to Heretics: Hussites among the Fathers,” In A Companion to the Council of Basel, Eds. Michiel Decaluwé, Gerald Christianson and Thomas Izbicki. Leiden: Brill, in preparation.
“O Cursed Judas: Formal Heresy Accusations against Jan Hus,” In Political Uses of the Accusation of Heresy, Ed. Thomas Izbicki. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, in press.
“The One-Eyed Heretic? An Introduction to the Ethics of Jan Hus,” In Contributions of Czechs and Slovaks to Science and Technology in the 21st Century, Eds. Zdeněk V. David and Karel Raska, Jr. New York: The Publishing House of the Czech and Slovak Society of Arts and Sciences, 2011, pp. 56-70.
“Heresy and the Question of Hussites in the Southern Netherlands (1411–1431),” In Campin in Context: Peinture et société dans la vallée de l’Escaut à l’époque de Robert Campin 1375–1445, Eds., Ludovic Nys and Dominique Vanwijnsberghe. Valenciennes-Brussels-Tournai: Presses universitaires de Valenciennes, 2007, pp. 73–88.
“The First Reformation in Hussite Bohemia,” In Contesting Christendom: Readings in Medieval Religion and Culture, Ed., James L. Halverson. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, pp. 227-34.
“Želivský’s Head: Memory and New Martyrs Among the Hussites,” In The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice, volume 6. Eds., David R. Holeton and Zdeněk V. David. Prague: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2007, pp. 111-132.
“Seduced by the Theologians: Aeneas Sylvius and the Hussite Heretics,” In Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Eds., Ian Hunter, John Christian Laursen and Cary J. Nederman, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005, pp. 89–101.
“‘More Glory Than Blood’: Murder and Martyrdom in the Hussite Crusades,” In The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice, volume 5. Eds., David R. Holeton and Zdeněk V. David, Prague: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2004, pp. 117–137.
“An Ass with a Crown: Heresy, Nationalism and Emperor Sigismund”, In The Transformation of Czech and Slovak Societies on the Threshold of the New Millennium and their Role in the Global World, Eds. Jan P. Skalny and Miloslav Rechcígl, Jr. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2004, pp. 199–217.
“Hussite Theology and the Law of God”, In The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology, Eds., David Steinmetz and David Bagchi, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 22–27.
“Luther and the ‘Hussite’ Catechism of 1522”, In Confessional Identity in East–Central Europe, pp. 31–48. Eds., Maria Crăciun, Ovidiu Ghitta and Graeme Murdock, [St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History], Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.
“‘Feel This!’ Jan Hus and the Preaching of Reformation”, In The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice, volume 4, pp. 107–26. Eds., David R. Holeton and Zdeněk V. David, Prague: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2002.
“Crime, Punishment and Pacifism in the Thought of Bishop Mikuláš of Pelhřimov”, In The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice, volume 3, pp. 69–103. Eds., David R. Holeton and Zdeněk V. David, Prague: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2000.
“Image Breakers, Image Makers: The Role of Heresy in Divided Christendom”, In Christianity in East Central Europe, [Proceedings of the World Congress of the Commission Internationale d’Histoire Ecclésiastique Comparée, Lublin, Poland, 1996], pp. 205–223. Eds., Paweł Kras and Wojciech Polak. Lublin: Instytut Europy Środkowo–Wschodniej, 1999.
“Reform and the Lower Consistory in Prague, 1437–1497”, In The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice, volume 2, pp. 67–96. Eds., David R. Holeton and Zdeněk V. David, Prague: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 1998.
“The “Law of God”: Reform and Religious Practice in Late Medieval Bohemia”, In The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice, volume 1, pp. 49–72. Ed. David R. Holeton, Prague: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 1996.
“The ‘Crown’ and the ‘Red Gown’: Hussite Popular Religion”, In Popular Religion in Germany and Central Europe, 1400–1800, pp. 38–57. Eds. Bob Scribner and Trevor Johnson, London: MacMillan, 1996.
Articles
“Jan Hus as the Apocalyptic Witness in John Foxe’s History”, in progress.
“Václav the Anonymous and Jan Příbram: Textual Laments on the Fate of Religion in Bohemia (1424-1429),” Filosofický časopis, supplementum 3 (2011): 116-133.
“Jan Hus at Calvary: The Text of an Early Fifteenth-Century Passio,” Journal of Moravian History 11 (Fall, 2011): 45-81.
“Picturing the Death and Life of Jan Hus in the Iconography of Early Modern Europe,” Kosmas: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal 23 (No. 1, 2009): 1-18.
“Prokop in the Bath: Some Observations on the Liber diurnus de gestis Bohemorum in Concilio Basileensi”, Filosofický časopis, supplementum 1 (2009): 139-155.
“Saints, Sinners and Stupid Asses: The Place of Faith in Luther’s Doctrine of Salvation,” Communio Viatorum 50 (No. 3, 2008): 231–256.
“Traditions and Trajectories in the Historiography of European Witch Hunting”, History Compass 4 (No. 3, 2006): 488–527.
“Obrana ‘Kacířství’: Teoretické pojednámí” [Defending Heresy: A Theoretical Elaboration], Medievalia Historica Bohemica 9 (2003): 295–314, In Czech.
“Incest and Lust in Luther’s Marriage: Theology and Morality in Reformation Polemics”, Sixteenth–Century Journal 34 (No.2, 2003):319–45.
“Žižka’s Drum: The Political Uses of Popular Religion,” Central European History 36 (No. 4, 2003): 546–69.
“Concepts of Salvation in the Western Church to the Sixteenth Century”, Communio Viatorum 45 (2003): 217–247.
“The Fate of Joel Hayward in New Zealand Hands: From holocaust historian to holocaust,” History Now Te Pae Tawhito o te Wā 9 (No. 2, May, 2003): 12–21.
“Did E. N. Bell convert to the ‘New Issue’ in 1915?” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 18 (April, 2001): 122–140.
“To Build a Fire: Jan Hus, the Incendiary Preacher of Prague”, Christian History 68 (No.4, 2000): 10–18.
“Proclamation, Postils, Preaching: The Key to Understanding Milíč?” Communio Viatorum 41 (No.3, 1999): 276–283.
“‘Neither Mine Nor Thine’: Communist Experiments in Hussite Bohemia”, Canadian Journal of History 33 (April 1998): 25–47.
“‘Infoelix Hus’: The Rehabilitation of a Medieval Heretic”, Fides et Historia 30 (No.1, 1998): 57–73.
“Icarus of Basel? Oecolampadius and the Early Swiss Reformation”, Journal of Religious History 21 (October 1997): 268–284.
“Visual Heresy and Popular Religion in Early Modern Europe”, History Now Te Pae Tawhito o te Wā 3 (May 1997): 1–7.
“Inventing the Origins and Influence of Lollardy”, Communio Viatorum 38 (No.2, 1996): 174–184.
“Eucharistic Renewal and Ecclesiastical Reform in Bohemia”, Communio Viatorum 38 (No.2, 1996): 185–190.
“‘The Shouting Hus’: Heresy Appropriated as Propaganda in the Sixteenth Century”, Communio Viatorum 38 (No.3, 1996): 197–231.
“Visual Heresy and the Communication of Ideas in the Hussite Reformation”, Kosmas: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal 12 (No.1, 1996): 120–151.
“Hussite Infant Communion”, Lutheran Quarterly 10 (No.2, 1996): 179–94.
“The Problem of Religious Liberty in Early Modern Bohemia”, Communio Viatorum 38 (No.1, 1996): 64–87.
“Bonhoeffer and Gutiérrez: Unlikely Allies in Christian Revolution”, Colloquium: The Australian and New Zealand Theological Review 28 (November 1996): 31–49.
“The Night of Antichrist: Popular Culture, Judgment and Revolution in Fifteenth–Century Bohemia”, Communio Viatorum 37 (No.1, 1995): 33–45.
“The State of Hussite Historiography”, Mediaevistik: Internationale Zeitschrift für Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung 7 (1994): 93–117.
“Art and Propaganda in Hussite Bohemia”, Religio. Revue pro religionistiku 1 (No.2, 1993): 135–152.
“‘Ansellus dei’ and the Bethlehem Chapel in Prague”, Communio Viatorum 35 (No.2 1993): 127–161.
Encyclopedia and Dictionary Articles
“Hussite Crusades (1420-31)” and “Joan of Arc” in The Encyclopedia of War, 6 vols. Ed. Gordon Martel, Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, vol. 2, pp. 1042-4 and 1143-6.
“Hussite Wars in Bohemia”, in The Literary Encyclopedia, online at www.litencyc.com, 2011.
“Jan Hus”, in The Literary Encyclopedia, online at www.litencyc.com, 2010.
“Peter Abelard”, “Karl Barth”, “Jan Hus”, “Martin Luther”, “Albert Schweitzer”, and “John Wyclif”. In The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature, 2 vols. Eds., George Thomas Kurian and James D. Smith, III. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2010, vol. 1, pp. 167–8, 202–3; vol. 2, 378–9, 439–40, 554–5 and 651–2.
“John of Rokycan,” In The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 4 vols. Ed. Robert E. Bjork, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, vol. 4, p. 1419.
“Hussites”, In Europe 1450–1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, 6 vols. Ed. Jonathan Dewald, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004, vol. 3, pp. 235-7.
“Jan Hus”, In Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, 2 vols. Ed. John H. Hayes, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999, vol. 1, pp. 530-1.
“Il predicatore di Jan Hus e il predicatore di John Wyclif”, In Dizionario de Omiletica, Eds., Manlio Sodi and Achille M. Triacca, Turin: Editrice Elle Di Ci; Bergamo: Editrice Velar spa, 1998, pp. 684-8 and pp. 1685-8.
“Jan Hus”, In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, 4 vols. Ed. Hans J. Hillerbrand, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, vol. 2, pp. 276-8.