Dr. Kent G. Hare
khare@nsula.edu
Alternate e-mail: kgh111861@yahoo.com
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D. and M.A., History, Louisiana State University
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University
Fields of Interest:
The Barbarian Kingdoms of the Early Middle Ages; Anglo-Saxon England; Early Christian Religiosity and the Crusades; Bronze Age Greek and Early Germanic Heroic Ages; Late Roman Republic and Early Empire.
A member of the NSU faculty since the Fall of 2000, Dr. Hare teaches courses ranging across the vast span of European and World History, including the Ancient World, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance and Reformation. His specialty of training is early European history and medieval Latin; his primary research has been pre-Crusading ideas of Christian Heroism and Holy War among the Anglo-Saxon English. The fruits of these labors are a number of conference papers and several articles, the most recent of which include an essay exploring the fame of the tenth-century monarch, “Athelstan of England: Christian King and Hero,” a study of the role of Old English poetry in the tenth-century unification of England, “Christian Heroism and the West Saxon Achievement: The Old English Poetic Evidence,” as well as a discussion of the relationship between warfare and royal sanctity in early England, "Heroes, Saints, and Martyrs: Holy Kingship in Bede and Other Anglo-Saxon Commentators" (forthcoming).
Dr. Hare also edits Mirabilia, the semi-annual newsletter of the Texas Medieval Association, and is the NSU Social Sciences Coordinator for the Fourth Annual Conference of the Louisiana Consortium of Medieval and Renaissance Scholars, to be held at NSU on 13-14 October 2006.
