Sean Hannan

As Sean Hannan tries to put his research interests to work in service of his teaching, he introduces students to a wide range of ideas and perspectives, while focusing on particular issues and conflicts as they arose in specific contexts. With expertise in the fields of the late antique Mediterranean and medieval European worlds, his intent is to help students bridge the gap between Classics and History. We can best build that bridge by tracing how ideas that emerge in antiquity survive and are transformed in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Reformation. This project of tracking ideas can only succeed if we attend to the religious contexts in which such ideas were born, nurtured and (sometimes) abandoned. In addition to teaching classes on pre-modern history, therefore, he also plans to help build up MacEwan's offerings in the histories of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Finally, he has a bit of a digital humanities mandate, which means that he is committed to ensuring students find the technological resources they need to make sense of these past worlds. That could mean incorporating digital mapping exercises, or publishing a public class blog, or even incorporating digital tools (like OCR or text-analysis) into longer-term student research projects. Far from replacing the traditional methods of scholarship, of course, the goal is to use these resources to amplify our understanding of the past and its treasury of lost ideas. | Intellectual history, medieval history, history of religion, history of time, Christianity, Late Antiquity, North Africa, Augustine of Hippo

Sean Hannan is Associate Professor, History at MacEwan University. Their stated interests include As Sean Hannan tries to put his research interests to work in service of his teaching, he introduces students to a wide range of ideas and perspectives, while focusing on particular issues and conflicts as they arose in specific contexts. With expertise in the fields of the late antique Mediterranean and medieval European worlds, his intent is to help students bridge the gap between Classics and History. We can best build that bridge by tracing how ideas that emerge in antiquity survive and are transformed in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Reformation. This project of tracking ideas can only succeed if we attend to the religious contexts in which such ideas were born, nurtured and . This summary considered all 2 collected sources.