“Domine, Deus meus es, et Dominus meus es, et numquam te vidi. Tu me fecisti et refecisti, et omnia mea bona tu mihi contulisti, et nondum novi te. Denique ad te videndum factus sum, et nondum feci, propter quod factus sum.”— St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109), Proslogion
[O Lord, Thou art my God, Thou art my Lord, and I have never seen Thee. Thou didst make me, and make me anew, and all of my goods Thou didst give me—and I have not yet known Thee. Finally, I was made to see Thee—and I have not yet done that for which I was made.]
Faculty Information
Additional Faculty Information for Charles C. Yost
Education
Ph.D., Medieval Studies, University of Notre Dame
M.M.S., Medieval Studies, University of Notre Dame
M.A., Medieval Studies, Columbia University
B.A., Classical Languages, University of St. Thomas
Current courses taught
The American Heritage
The High and Late Middle Ages, 1100-1500: The Reign and Fall of Christendom
The Western Heritage
The Early Middle Ages, 284-1099: The Forge of Christendom
Academic Specializations
Lectures
Publications
“Doubting the Conventional Narrative About the Schism of 1054,” The Imaginative Conservative, 2020
“Anti-Palamism, Unionism, and the ‘Crisis of Faith’ of the Fourteenth Century,” in Knighthood, Crusades, and Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Time of King Peter I of Cyprus, ed. Angel Nicolaou-Konnari and Alexander D. Beihammer, Mediterranean Nexus 1100-1700 (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, NV). Forthcoming.
Professional Memberships
Research Projects
Co-editor (with Yury P. Avvakmov, University of Notre Dame) of proposed series of volumes: Eastern Catholic Studies and Texts (ECST) (Catholic University of America Press)
Biography
Dr. Charles C. Yost is an Iowa native, but prior to Hillsdale College he taught 9th and 10th grade history (Ancient and Medieval) and philosophy at Founders Classical Academy in Schertz, Texas. His research has taken him to the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in Rome, the island of Crete, and the island of Cyprus (the latter thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship). Dr. Yost remains convinced that it was during the Middle Ages that Western Civilization was first fully realized.