History

Wesley Stevens

Professor Emeritus of History
University of Winnipeg

Visiting Scholar at St. Paul’s College
Adjunct Professor of Graduate Studies
University of Manitoba

University Studies
1968 Ph. D. (History) Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
1959 S.T.M. (Patristics) Union Theological Seminary, New York
1955 M. Th. (Theology) Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
1951 B.A. (Mathematics) Texas A. & M. University, College Station, Texas

Professional Employment
2004-2007 Visiting Scholar, St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba
1995 - Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, University of Winnipeg
1968-1994 Professor of History University of Winnipeg
1985-1987 Lecturer in Latin Palaeography, Consortium of Austro-Bavarian Studies
1960-1967 Assistant Professor of History, Emory University
1956-1960 Managing Editor, The Christian Scholar (quarterly periodical). Commission on Higher Education, National Council of Churches in the USA

Recent Professional Honours and Awards
2006 Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Berlin)
Humboldt-Forschungspreis, Wiedereinladung, nominated by Professors Dr. Dietrich Lohrman (Aachen), Dr. Marc-Aeilko Ariß (Munich), and Dr. Menso Folkerts (Munich).

2001 XXIth International Congress of History of Science, Mexico City. Introduction of the Inaugural Speaker: Professor Roshdi Rashed, Directeur du Centre d’Histoire des Sciences et des Philosophies Arabes et Médiévales, Université Denis Diderot – Paris VII, et Chevalier de
la Légion d’Honneur de France.

2000 Keynote Address : “Quid est enim tempus?”, International Congress of Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, 10 July 2000.

1998 Distinguished Lecturer in Humanities: “Alternatives to Ptolemy”, University of Windsor, 30 September 1998.

Recent Publications
2005 “Marginalia in the Latin Euclid”, in Scientia in margine. Études sur les marginalia dans les manuscrits scientifiques du Moyen Âge à la Renaissance, réunies par Danielle Jacquart et Charles Burnett (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sciences historiques et philosophiques V, Hautes Études Médiévales et Modernes 88; Paris, Droz, 2005), p. 117-137.

“Euclidean Geometry in the Early Middle Ages: A Preliminary Reassessment”, in Studies in Medieval Technology, Science, and Art, in memory of Jean Gimpel, ed. Marie-Thérèse Zenner (Aldershot, England : Ashgate Publishing, 2004), p. 229-263.

“Circulus, triangulus, epidonicus. Geometrical Difficulties with Latin Lexicography”, in Daimonopylai. Essays I Classics and the Classical Tradition, eds. R.B. Egan and M.A. Joyal (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Centre for Hellenistic Civilization, 2004), p. 397-426.

Recent Publications (continued)
“A Present Sense of Things Past: Quid est enim tempus?”, in Time and Eternity. The Medieval Discourse, eds. G. Jaritz and G. Moreno-Riaño, International Medieval Research, vol 9 (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2003), p.9-28.

“Addo et subtraho. Mathematical Glosses to Modern Lexicography”, in Inquirens subtilia Diversa. Dietrich Lohrmann zum 65. Geburstag, eds. Horst Kranz and Ludwig Falkenstein (Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2002), p. 238-259.

“Fields and Streams. Language and Practice of Arithmetic and Geometry in Early Medieval Schools” in Word, Image, Number. Communication in the Middle Ages, eds. John J. Contreni and Santa Casciani (Florence: Sismel, Editioni del Galluzzo, 2002), p.113-203.

 “Le Istituzioni Culturali e la Trasmissione del Sapere”, in Storia della Scienza (Rome : Enciclopedia Itaniana), vol, IV, Medioevo, Rinascimento (2001), Parte I, capitolo II, p. 93-104.

“Rappresentazione della Terra”, in Storia della Scienza (Rome : Enciclopedia Itaniana), vol, IV, Medioevo, Rinascimento (2001), Parte I, capitolo IX, 3, p. 179-183.

“La Teoria delle Maree e le Latitudini Terrestri”, in Storia della Scienza (Rome : Enciclopedia Itaniana), vol, IV, Medioevo, Rinascimento (2001), parte I, capitolo IX, 4, p. 183-184.

Bede's Scientific Achievement. The Jarrow Lecture
(St. Paul's Church, Jarrow-upon-Tyne: UK, 1985)

Hrabani De computo, in Corpus Christianorum continuatio mediaevalis, vol 40 (Turnhout: Belgium, 1979)