Kenneth Baxter Wolf

Short Biography

Kenneth Baxter Wolf is the John Sutton Miner Professor of Medieval History at Pomona College in Claremont, California. His principle areas of research are Latin Christian interaction with Muslims, early medieval historiography, and Christian sanctity, especially as it relates to ideas about poverty. He is the author of Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain (Cambridge University Press, 1988), Making History: The Normans and their Historians in Eleventh-century Italy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995), and The Poverty of Riches: St. Francis Reconsidered (Oxford University Press, 2003). He has also translated and edited four early medieval chronicles from Spain under the title Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain, (Liverpool University Press, 1990; Rev. ed., 1999). Most recently he translated the principal account of the Norman conquest of Sicily, which appeared under the title, The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily and of His Brother Duke Robert Guiscard (University of Michigan, 2005). He is currently finishing a translation of the canonization records of St. Elizabeth of Thüringen. He is a past recipient of an NEH fellowship as well as a two-year membership at the Institute for Advanced Studies. He holds a BA in Religious Studies and a PhD in History from Stanford University and has been a member of the History Department at Pomona his entire career.