Dr. Christopher M. Bellitto is professor of history at Kean University in New Jersey, where he teaches courses in ancient and medieval history. With a focus on church history and reform, he has twice won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been a visiting scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary and a Fulbright specialist at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Dr. Bellitto serves as series editor in chief of Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition and academic editor at large for Paulist Press. He also frequently offers public lectures and comments in the media on church history and contemporary Catholicism.

• AcknowledgmentsPrologue: The Problem and the PotentialChapter One: Ancient Notions of HumilityChapter Two: Humility in a Biblical KeyChapter Three: A Medieval Golden AgeChapter Four: The Paradox of Learned IgnoranceChapter Five: Modernity Forgets—and Starts to RememberEpilogue: Recovering a Lost VirtueBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

This delightful little book seeks to rescue humility as a key moral virtue.

Dr. Christopher M. Bellitto is professor of history at Kean University in New Jersey, where he teaches courses in ancient and medieval history. With a focus on church history and reform, he has twice won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been a visiting scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary and a Fulbright specialist at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Dr. Bellitto serves as series editor in chief of Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition and academic editor at large for Paulist Press. He also frequently offers public lectures and comments in the media on church history and contemporary Catholicism.

• AcknowledgmentsPrologue: The Problem and the PotentialChapter One: Ancient Notions of HumilityChapter Two: Humility in a Biblical KeyChapter Three: A Medieval Golden AgeChapter Four: The Paradox of Learned IgnoranceChapter Five: Modernity Forgets—and Starts to RememberEpilogue: Recovering a Lost VirtueBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

This delightful little book seeks to rescue humility as a key moral virtue.

Dr. Christopher M. Bellitto is professor of history at Kean University in New Jersey, where he teaches courses in ancient and medieval history. With a focus on church history and reform, he has twice won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been a visiting scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary and a Fulbright specialist at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Dr. Bellitto serves as series editor in chief of Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition and academic editor at large for Paulist Press. He also frequently offers public lectures and comments in the media on church history and contemporary Catholicism.

• AcknowledgmentsPrologue: The Problem and the PotentialChapter One: Ancient Notions of HumilityChapter Two: Humility in a Biblical KeyChapter Three: A Medieval Golden AgeChapter Four: The Paradox of Learned IgnoranceChapter Five: Modernity Forgets—and Starts to RememberEpilogue: Recovering a Lost VirtueBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

This delightful little book seeks to rescue humility as a key moral virtue.