His scholarship has focused on the crusades, papal–Byzantine relations, the Silk Road, and the historiography of world history.[2] He has been a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation since 1965. He is known for his books Contemporary Sources for the Fourth Crusade and Encyclopedia of the Crusades.
Biography
Andrea was born on November 18, 1941. He received his A.B. magna cum laude from Boston College in 1963[3] and earned his Ph.D. in history from Cornell University in 1969, with a dissertation titled Pope Innocent III as Crusader and Canonist: His Relations with the Greeks of Constantinople, 1198–1216.[4]
Andrea joined the faculty of the University of Vermont in 1967, where he taught until 2001, rising from assistant to full professor and holding administrative roles including Director of Graduate Studies, Interim Chair, and Director of Undergraduate Studies.[1]
He later held visiting and honorary appointments at institutions in the United States, Europe, and Asia, among them the Eli Lilly Visiting Professorship at the University of Puget Sound (1978–1979) and a Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence position at the University of Louisville (2002).[5]
His awards include the World History Association’s Pioneer of World HistoryAward (2014),[7] the Phi Delta Kappa Award for Distinguished Teaching (2009), and the Centennial Medal for Distinguished Scholarship from Saint Michael’s College (2004). He has been a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation since 1965.[8]
Research and scholarly work
Andrea’s research spans medieval ecclesiastical history, the crusades, papal–Byzantine relations, and long-distance cultural exchange in the premodern world.
His work integrates regional and global perspectives, particularly cross-cultural encounters along the Silk Roads and in the Mediterranean.
His annotated source collection Contemporary Sources for the Fourth Crusade (Brill, 1997; 2nd ed., 2009) remains a standard reference in crusader studies,[2] and The Capture of Constantinople (1997) provides a critical edition and translation of Gunther of Pairis’s Hystoria Constantinopolitana.[9] His Encyclopedia of the Crusades (2003)[10] and editorial leadership of the 21-volume World History Encyclopedia (2011).[5]
In world history pedagogy, Andrea co-authored with James H. Overfield anthology The Human Record: Sources of Global History (first published in 1990; 8th ed., 2015)[11] and authored The Medieval Record: Sources of Medieval History (2nd rev. ed., 2019), which he regards as a personal favorite. He also co-edited Seven Myths of the Crusades (2015) with Andrew Holt[12] and coauthored Sanctified Violence: Holy War in World History (2021),[13] and authored Expanding Horizons: The Globalization of Medieval Europe, 450–1500 (2024).[14]
Andrea, Alfred J.; Holt, Andrew P. (2021). Sanctified violence: holy war in world history. Critical themes in world history. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN978-1-62466-960-6.
Andrea, Alfred J.; Holt, Andrew, eds. (2015). Seven myths of the Crusades. Myths of history: a Hackett series. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN978-1-62466-403-8.
Gunther; Andrea, Alfred J. (1997). The capture of Constantinople: the Hystoria Constantinopolitana of Gunther of Pairis. Middle Ages series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN978-0-8122-3356-8.
Andrea, Alfred J.; Schmokel, Wolfe W., eds. (1975). The living past: Western historiographical traditions. New York: Wiley. ISBN978-0-471-02914-4.
Andrea, Alfred J.; Neel, Carolyn, eds. (2011). World history encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO. ISBN978-1-85109-929-0.
Andrea, Alfred J. (2003). Encyclopedia of the crusades. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. ISBN978-0-313-31659-3.
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