Receiving his B.A. from Gonzaga in 1977, Field did his graduate work at UCLA, where he received his M.A. in 1979 and Ph.D. in 1985. As Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA, he served as Lecturer from 1985 to 1987. From 1987 to 1989, he held a Henry R. Luce Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Yale and, after a Lectureship at Yale, accepted an Assistant Professorship at the University of Mississippi, where he is now a Professor.

His publications include On the Communion of Damasus and Meletius: Fourth-Century Synodal Formulae in the Codex Veronensis LX, with Critical Edition and Translation Studies and Texts 145 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2004); My Response to T.D. Barnes: Positivistic Straw Arguments Do Not Review Books (University, Miss.: J.D. Williams Library, 2002); and Liberty, Dominion, and the Two Swords: On the Origins of Western Political Theology (180-398) Publications in Medieval Studies 28, ed. John Van Engen (Notre Dame, London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998).

Recently, Field has also published an important essay in Plenitude of Power: The Doctrines and Exercise of Authority in the Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of Robert Louis Benson, ed. Robert C. Figueira, Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West (Aldershot, UK, and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing, 2006). Entitled “Christendom Before Europe? A Historiographical Analysis of ‘Political Theology’ in Late Antiquity,” this essay not only addresses the “substantive questions” mentioned in My Response to T.D. Barnes (http://130.74.178.25:85/barn2.pdf) but also functions as prolegomenon for a book-length project, entitled “Political Theology” in Late Antiquity: A History of the Modern Concept and Its Historiographical Application to Pre-Modern Christianity.

Professor Field
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