Professor Jeremy Adams employs the methods of intellectual and social historians to examine the phenomenon of human groupings in Late Greco-Roman Antiquity, the Early European Middle Ages, the High and Later West-European Middle Ages. Adams’ inquiry began with a study of Late Antique founding fathers of “the medieval mind,” Augustine of Hippo (AD 354-430), Jerome (340?-420), and Isidore of Seville (560-636). One of the most vital and durable creations of early Christian thought was the idea of the populus Christianus, “the Christian people,” at once heir to the People of Israel and the Roman People, and transcendently different from them.

Following his examination of those intellectual foundations of medieval Western Christian culture, Adams embarked on a long study of the intellectual elite of Visigothic Spain (409-760), the Crusades, chivalry, and the historical vision of Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis (1081-1151). 

Dr. Adams earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University and is Professor and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor of Medieval Europe at Southern Methodist University.