Timothy M. Baker
Doctoral Candidate, Harvard Divinity School at Harvard University

Areas of expertise
- - History of Christianity
- - Medieval History and Historiography
- - Interpretation of Scripture/Exegesis
- - Manuscript Studies
Major works
Timothy M. Baker, “‘Be You as Living Stones Built Up, A Spiritual House, A Holy Priesthood’: Cistercian Exegesis, Reforms, and the Construction of Holy Architectures,” (Harvard University, 2015) [Doctoral Dissertation, available locally]; Timothy Baker and Beverly Mayne Kienzle, "Hélinand of Froidmont," Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception 10 (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2015); Timothy Baker and Beverly Mayne Kienzle, "Monastic Preaching in Medieval Latin Christendom," in Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West, 2 vols, (publication forthcoming: Cambridge University Press, late 2015); Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Timothy M. Baker, and Jenny C. Bledsoe, “Part IV: Arts of Preaching,” in Bibliographical Supplement to Rhetoric in the Middle Ages. Ed. James J. Murphy, (publication forthcoming: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, late 2015); “The Inheritance of Patristic Writings,” in
A History of Medieval Christian Preaching as Seen in the Manuscripts of Houghton Library (
online exhibition).