CONTRIBUTOR:

James Muldoon

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The John Carter Brown Library, Brown University

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The John Carter Brown Library, Brown University

BIOGRAPHY:

Professor James Muldoon (B.A. Iona College; M.A. Boston College; Ph.D. Cornell University) taught at St. Michael's College in Vermont (1965-1970) and at the Camden College of Arts and Sciences of Rutgers University (1970-1998). He is now Professor Emeritus at Rutgers, an adjunct instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design, and an Invited Research Scholar at the John Carter Brown Library. Professor Muldoon has been a Fulbright Fellow at Cambridge University (1963-1964), a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study (1989-90), and a National Endowment of the Humanities Research Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library (1993). His recent books include Canon Law, the Expansion of Europe, and World Order (1998); Empire and Order: The Concept of Empire, 800-1800 (1999); and The Spiritual Conversion of the Americas (2004). He has published more than thirty-five articles dealing with the law of Christian marriage, the division of the world between the Castilians and the Portuguese in 1493, the origins of international law, and the legal issues associated with the crusades. He is co-editing with Professor Felipe Fernández-Armesto a series of reprints dealing with the expansion of medieval Europe tentatively entitled The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1450.