Bruce Harbert

Visiting Faculty

Executive Director, International Committee on English in the Liturgy

Education

S.T.L., Pontifical Augustinianum Institute, 1982.

S.T.B., Pontifical Gregorian University, 1978.

B.A, Philosophy, Pontifical Gregorian University, 1975.

M.Phil., Medieval English, Merton College, Oxford, 1968. Specialization in Medieval Latin.

B.A., English, Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1966. Specialization in Medieval English and Medieval Latin.

Principal Ecclesiastical Appointments

Teaching Experience

Paluch Lecturer, University of Saint Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary, 2002.

Lecturer in Dogmatic Theology, Saint Mary's College, Oscott, 1989-1998.

Lecturer in English Language and Medieval Literature, Mansfield, Merton, and Worcester Colleges, Oxford, 1968-1974.

Publications

ed. A Thirteenth-Century Anthology of Rhetorical Poems: Glasgow MS Hunterian V.8.14. Toronto Medieval Latin Texts. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1975.

ed. Lent with the Fathers. Oscott Series 8. Dublin: Veritas, 1994.

trans. The Augustine Catechism: The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope and Love. The Augustine Series, vol. 1. Hyde Park, New York: New City Press, 1999.

"The Myth of Tereus in Ovid and Gower." Medium Aevum 41 (1972): 208-14.

"Chaucer and the Latin Classics." In Writers and Their Background: Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by Derek Brewer, 137-53. London, 1974.

"King Alfred's æstel." Anglo-Saxon England 3 (1974): 103-10.

"Matthew of Vendôme." Medium Aevum 44 (1975): 225-37.

"The Church, the Kingdom and the English Mass." Clergy Review 63 (1978): 2-8.

"Diaconus Alter Christus." In collaboration with Timothy Galligan. The Clergy Review 66 (1981): 355-60.

"A Song at Twilight." Liturgy 7 (1983): 233-43.

"Truth, Love and Grace in the B-Text of Piers Plowman." In Literature in Fourteenth-Century England, eds Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, 33-48. Tübingen, 1983.

"The Quest for Melchisedek." New Blackfriars 68 (1987): 529-39.

"Lessons from the Great Clerk: Ovid and John Gower." In Ovid Renewed, edited by Charles Martindale, 83-97. Cambridge, 1988.

"Romans 5,12: Old Latin and Vulgate in the Pelagian Controversy." Studia Patristica 22 (1989): 261-64.

"A Will with a Reason: Theological Developments in the C-Revision of Piers Plowman." In Religion in the Poetry and Drama of the Late Middle Ages in England, eds Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, 149-61. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990.

"Langland's Easter." In Langland, the Mystics and the Medieval English Religious Tradition: Essays in Honour of S.S. Hussey, edited by Helen Phillips. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1990.

"Whose Funeral is It?" Priests and People 5, no. 11 (November 1991): 402-06.

"Mother, City and Bride." Priests and People 9, no. 8,9 (August-September 1995): 320-25.

introd. Saint Augustine's De Magistro. Villanova, PA: Augustinian Heritage Institute, 1995.

"Sacramental Language." New Blackfriars 77 (January 1996): 40-52.

"The Question of Liturgical 'Presidency'." Antiphon 1,  2/3 (Fall/Winter 1996): 6-8.

"What Kind of Missal Are We Getting?" New Blackfriars 77, no. 910 (1996): 548-52.

"A Meeting with Christ." The Tablet, 1 March 1997, 284-85.

"Sign, Sacrament, Salvation." Priests and People 11, no. 4 (April 1997): 145-50.

"New Bread, New Life." Priests and People 12, no. 3 (March 1998): 109-14.

"The Israeli Mass Has Had Its Day." Review of Caldecott (1998) and Altar and Sacrifice (1988). Catholic Herald, no. 5845 (29 May 1998): 6.

"Ancient Rhetoric and Modern Prayer: The Case of the Roman Canon." Antiphon 5, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2000): 30-36.

"The Sacrament of Lent." Priests and People 14, no. 3 (March 2000): 87-91.

"A Taste of the Last Supper." Catholic Herald, no. 6010 (27 July 2001): 5.

"Christology at the National Gallery." Sacred Architecture 4, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 16-18.