Lerner has specialised in medieval heresy and millennial eschatology, as well as writing on a variety of topics in medieval religious and intellectual history. His major monographs are The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages (1972), The Powers of Prophecy (1983), and The Feast of Saint Abraham (2001).
Prominent among his articles are the widely cited “Refreshment of the Saints” (1976)[2] and “Ecstatic Dissent” (1992).[3] In addition, he was the co-author of a best-selling Western Civilization textbook, a work translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Korean.
Lerner recently published a biography of the medieval historian Ernst Kantorowicz and is currently preparing an edition of a treatise written during the Great Schism of the West.
The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972. Revised edition: Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991.
Co-author Western Civilizations: Their History and Their Culture. New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1993, 1998.
The Powers of Prophecy: The Cedar of Lebanon Vision from the Mongol Onslaught to the Dawn of the Enlightenment. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. Reprint: Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009.
Weissagungen über die Päpste, with Robert Moynihan. Stuttgart: Belser Verlag, 1985.
Johannes de Rupescissa, Liber secretorum eventuum: Edition critique, traduction et introduction historique, with C. Morerod-Fattebert. Fribourg, Switzerland: Editions Universitaires, 1994.
Refrigerio dei santi. Rome: Viella, 1995.
ed., Neue Richtungen in der hoch- und spätmittelalterlichen Bibelexegese. Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag, 1996.
The Feast of Saint Abraham: The Joachite Millennium and the Jews. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001). Italian translation: La festa di sant’Abramo (Rome: Viella, 2002).
Scrutare il futuro: L’eredità di Gioacchino da Fiore alla fine del Medioevo. Rome: Viella, 2008.
Ernst Kantorowicz. A Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017.
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