Jerome S. Arkenberg is an American historian. He is History Professor at McHenry County College, the contributing editor for Internet History Sourcebooks Project, and the author of entries in readers guides, dictionaries and specialist encyclopedias.
Education
Arkenberg started studying at Loyola University of Chicago, completing a B.A. with Double Major in History & Political Science, then went on to obtain a Juris Doctor degree at the University of Illinois College of Law. After several years of legal practice in Oak Park and Chicago, he returned to Loyola University of Chicago and completed an M.A. in 1998 [cite web | url = http://www.luc.edu/depts/history/newsletter02-03.pdf | title = News of Alumni | work = Loyola History News | date = Winter 2002-2003 | accessdate = 2007-05-05 ] in Ancient and Medieval History. He went on to study Medieval English History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Career
Jerome has lectured on various history topics at California State University, Los Angeles, Cypress College, Chaffey College, Chapman University, Concordia University, Irvine, California State University, Fullerton, Northern Illinois University, University of St. Francis, University of Illinois at Chicago, Dominican University, and McHenry County College.[ [http://www.h-net.org/people/editors/show.cgi?ID=124492 Profile] on H-Net] In addition he has worked as as a law librarian, law clerk, and attorney at law in Illinois in State and Federal Courts, and more recently as a law clerk in California. He has also worked as a Researcher for the Loyola University of Chicago Department of History and the University of California, Los Angeles Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.]Jerome was elected four times and served as a member of the California State University-Fullerton academic senate in the years 2002-2005. [ [http://www.fullerton.edu/senate/forum/Spring_2003.pdf Senate Forum, Academic Senate, California State University, Fullerton. Volume XVIII, Number 2, Spring 2003] ]
He has also received a number of renowned scholarships and fellowships, including the prestigious British Academy Neil Ripley Ker Memorial Award.
Publications
In addition to publishing his own work, Jerome has digitised and edited hundreds of historical works that are made available by the Internet History Sourcebooks Project.[ [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/thanks.html Internet History Sourcebooks Project: Honor Roll] ] He has also edited a widely accessed "Guide to Medieval Terms" [http://orb.rhodes.edu/schriber/Medieval_Terms.html] and "A List of Fiction For Students of History: Ancient and Medieval" [http://orb.rhodes.edu/non_spec/fiction.html] .]Entries
;2005:The Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, ed. ISBN 0974309109
* "Constantine the Great"
;2003:A Reader’s Guide to British History, ed. ISBN 1579582427
* "The Statutes of Quo Warranto to 1485"
* "The General Eyre to 1485"
* "The Thirteenth Century Statutes of Westminster"
* "Law Enforcement in England to 1536".
;2002:The Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England, 1272-1485. ISBN 0313291241
* "Quia Emptores, Statute of (1290)"
* "Chief Justice Ralph de Hengham, Jurist (d.1311)"
* "Quo Warranto Proceedings and Statutes to 1535."
The Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, ISBN 0893560383
* "Fulvia (80-40 B.C.E.)"
* "Ælle, King of the South Saxons (450-491 C.E.)"
* "Lucius Licinius Lucullus (117-56 B.C.E.)"
;2001:Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500: A Biographical Dictionary. ISBN 0313305889
* "Thomas Bourgchier, Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury (1411-1486)"
* "Nicholas Hereford, Oxford Theologian & Lollard (1355? - 1420?)"
* "Philip Repyngdon, Cardinal, Bishop of Lincoln, and Lollard (1360?- 1424)"
* "Ranulf Higden, Historian (fl. 1299-1364)"
* "John of Fordoun, Historian (d. 1384-87?)"
* "Andrew of Wyntoun, Historian (1350? - 1420-25?)".
Reviews
* Garth Fowden’s "Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2002) 57-61.
* Jan Bremmer's "The Early Greek Concept of the Soul" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983), in 15 (2001): 55-56.
Articles
* "The Proletariat's Proletariat", Senate Forum, XVIII:2 (Spring 2003), 15.
* "We can beat terrorists, but they can’t whip U.S.," Orange County Register, October 14, 2001.
* "The Story Behind a Stray Medieval Manuscript Leaf." Harvard Library Bulletin (Winter 1997) New Series, v. 8, no. 4, p46-54. [ [http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/collections/special/drawn_publications.php Select Publications that Have Drawn on Special Collections] from Harvard Law School]
* "Licinii Murenae, Terentii Varrones, and Varrones Murenae. II: The Enigma of Varro Murena," Historia 42:4 (1993): 471-491.
* "Licinii Murenae, Terentii Varrones, and Varrones Murenae. I: A Prosopographical Study of Three Roman Families," Historia 42:3 (1993): 326-351.
References
External links
* [http://www.the-orb.net/medieval_terms.html The ORB]
