Michael Edward Moore is Associate Professor of Medieval and European History at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Nicholas of Cusa and the Kairos of Modernity: Cassirer, Gadamer, Blumenberg (Punctum Books 2013). Recently a Senior Fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (Vienna, Austria), he is also the author of A Sacred Kingdom: Bishops and the Rise of Frankish Kingship (300-850), and numerous articles on medieval and European intellectual and cultural history.