NOVEMBER 2009

VOL 17, NO 2

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Division news 2

Oberman Professor 3

Guest lecturerJames M. Estes 4

Five doctoral summers 6

1&.THE UNIVERSITY

OF ARIZONA.

THE UNIVERSITY o F ARIZONA

THE DIVISION FOR LATE MEDIEVAL AND REFORMATION STUDIES

••... the premier place for Reformation studies" -Lyndal Roper, Professor of Early Modern History, Balliol College, University of Oxford

"Here I stand!"by Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Director

Department garner, orTheater Arts, or History?

These have long been thecheapest parts of thecurriculum to sustain. As arule, salaries are lower andset-up costs for new facultyare minuscule. If moneywere in fact the chiefcriterion of where to cut, theLibraries, Fine Arts,Humanities, and Social andBehavioral Sciences wouldemerge from the currentcrisis with their ability tomeet the needs of a rapidinflux of undergraduatesintact. Instead, we arediminishing our ability toinstruct those very studentswhom we purport towelcome warmly.

What are the pedagogicalroles that higher educationmust play in our society?Fundamentally, it musttransmit to the cominggeneration that which wedeem to be the essentialsubstantive kernel ofAmerica's rich culture.Elsewhere in the world, thismatter is conveyed in theequivalent of high school, butin the United States it ismainly not. Second, it muststimulate students toformulate and apply tothemselves those questionsconcerning our existenceboth individually and inrelation to other people that

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A SEMI-ANNUALNEWSLETTER OFTHE DIVISION FORLATE MEDIEVAL ANDREFORMATIONSTUDIES

Founded in 1989 byHeiko A. Oberman (1930-2001),Regents' Professor of History

Director and Regents'Professor of History:Susan C. Karant-Nunn

Heiko A. Oberman Professor:Ute Lotz-Heumann

Program Coordinator, Sr.:Luise Betterton

Managing Editor:Sandra Kimball

Associated Faculty:Alan E. Bernstein, EmeritusPia F. CuneoDavid L. GraizbordKari McBrideHelen Nader, EmeritaCynthia White

Board of Advisors:Richard Duffield, ChairLuise BettertonStanley FeldmanSandy HatfieldJennifer Carrell HelenboltHester ObermanToetie ObermanGeorge RosenbergHelen SchaeferJohn SchaeferBazy TankersleyDanielle Thu

The University of ArizonaDouglass Building 315PO Box 210028Tucson AZ 85721(520) 621-1284Fax! (520) 626-5444http://dlmrs.web.arizona.edu

W"-e , e are all aware of thechallenge posed to

.. higher (and lower)education by thecurrent severe

economic contraction. Manyof us in academia are of theopinion, too, that the threatto our young people and tothe Arizona economy comessimultaneously from adominant faction in the statelegislature that will not permitvoters to render their verdicton whether the currentemergency warrants a smalland temporary addition tothe sales tax. How strange itmay seem, then, when weperceive that an equalchallenge to the core of theundergraduate curriculum atthe University of Arizonacomes from within. Underthe guise of a principle called"differential cuts," non-proportional, highlydamaging budgetaryreduction is now directedtoward the UniversityLibraries, the College of FineArts, the College ofHumanities, and the Collegeof Social and BehavioralSciences (in which theDivision is located). Otherareas that are spared thesehuge cuts will, it is alleged,be able to attract largegrants and other sources ofoutside revenue. After all,how many million-dollargrants does the English

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Division News

Participants in the Summer Lecture Series 2009: "Pilgrimage" (L to R):Helen Nader, Paul Buehler, Elizabeth Ellis-Marino, Sean Clark, SusanC. Karant-Nunn with Greg Foraker of St. Philip's in the Hills EpiscopalChurch. (Not pictured: Amy Newhouse)

Julie Kang, Euchul Kim

Cynthia White'sBestiary

Jonathan Reid'sKing's Sister

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Congratulations

Paul Buehler and Amy Newhouse,Division doctoral students, won languagestudy awards from the German AcademicExchange Service (DAAD) for an eight-week German language study course inBonn and Freiburg respectively.Oberman-Reesink Scholarships from theDivision and Barbara Payne RobinsonScholarships from the HistoryDepartment supplemented these awards.

Sean Clark, Division doctoral student,received a second $2,500 Borders GroupFoundation Scholarship. Additionally hewon an Ora DeConcini Martin and MorrisMartin Scholarship for research at theHerzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel,Germany.

Julie Kang, Division doctoral student,and Euchul Kim, were married inAugust. Julie returned from a year ofFulbright-funded research in Paris tofinish her dissertation on seventeenth-century Huguenot women and girls whoconvert to Catholicism.

Tom Donlan, Division doctoral student,received an Ora DeConcini Martin-MorrisMartin Scholarship for archival researchin Paris and Moulins toward his doctoraldissertation on the non-violent, spiritualmilitancy of Francois de Sales.

Conferences/Publications

Professor Pia Cuneo, Professor of ArtHistory and Division associated faculty,spent September conducting research atthe National Sporting Library inMiddleburg, Virginia, as their John H.Daniels Research Fellow.

Professor David L. Graizbord,Associate Professor of Judaic Studiesand Division associated faculty, publishedan article in "Jewish Social Studies" on"Religion and Ethnicity among the Men ofThe Nation: Toward a Realistic

Approach." He is currently working on-various writing projects including a"Featured Review" of Yirmiyahu Yovel's"The Other Within: The Marranos: SplitIdentity and Emerging Modernity"(Princeton University Press, 2009) for the"American Historical Review."

Professor Susan C. Karant-Nunn,Division Director, has been awarded atwo-month Research Visit grant from theDAAD. In July, she taught at the H. HenryMeeter Center and the NationalEndowment for the Humanities SummerInstitute for Teachers at Calvin College inMichigan. Her monograph, "TheReformation of Feeling: Shaping theReligious Emotions in Early ModernGermany" (Oxford University Press), willbe released in December.

Mary Kovel, Division doctoral student,published a book review of RoseHentschell's u The Culture of Cloth inEarly Modern England: TextualConstructions of a National Indentity" inthe "Journal of British Studies" (October2009).

Professor Ute Lotz-Heumann, Heiko A.Oberman Professor, taught a seminar inAu~ust at the Herzog August Bibliothek's34' International Summer Course inWolfenbuttel, Germany. The theme was"Conversion in the Early Modern Period."She also published "Between Conflictand Coexistence: The CatholicCommunity in Ireland as a 'VisibleUnderground Church' in the LateSixteenth and Early SeventeenthCenturies" in "Catholic Communities inProtestant States: Britain and theNetherlands, 1580-1720" (ManchesterUniversity Press, 2009).

Professor Cynthia White, AssociateProfessor of Classics and Divisionassociated faculty, has been appointedInterim Head of Classics. Her most recentbook, "From the Ark to the Pulpit: AnEdition and Translation of the'Transitional' Northumberland Bestiary(13'h century)," is due to appear this fallfrom Brepols Press. Her article,"Concordia Virginitatis: PassionateMarriage in Paulin us of Nola'sEpithalamium," recently appeared in''Words of Love, Love of Words in theMiddle Ages and Renaissance" (ArizonaCenter for Medieval and RenaissanceStudies, 2008). She is reading medievalLatin with Division students this fall andnext semester she will offer her annualspring break tour of Italy, March 12-21,2010 (www.classics.web.arizona.edu/spring_break_italy) .

Alumni

Professor Robert J. Christman, LutherCollege, Iowa, published an article, "'I canindeed respond': Lay Confessions ofFaith in Late Sixteenth-Century CentralGermany," in the "Sixteenth CenturyJournal," winter 2008. He and his wife,Victoria Christman-also a Division

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alum, also at Luther College-welcomed a new family member inApril, Robert Lawrence Christman.

Professor John M. Frymire, Universityof Missouri, has been promoted toAssociate Professor. He recentlypublished an essay, "Demons/rationescatholicae: Defining GermanCommunities through Counter-Reformation Rituals," in "DefiningCommunity in Early Modern Europe"(Ashgate, 2008). His monograph will bereleased in December: "The Primacy ofthe Postils: Catholics, Protestants, andthe Dissemination of Ideas in EarlyModern Germany" (Brill, 2009).

Professor Brad S. Gregory, Universityof Notre Dame, has, in the past year,given presentations related to his newbook on the Reformation era and themaking of the modern Western world atthe State University of Milan, University ofOslo, Wisconsin-Madison, Stanford,Berkeley, Yale, Northwestern, andChicago. He published essays in "Historyand Theory" and "Historically Speaking,"and co-edited a volume that is appearingthis fall entitled "Seeing Things TheirWay: Intellectual History and the Returnof Religion" (University of Notre DamePress). With Randall C. Zachman(University of Notre Dame), he wasnamed North American co-editor of the"Archiv Fiir Reformationsgeschichte."

Professor Andrew C. Gow, University ofAlberta, Edmonton, published "TheContested History of a Book: TheGerman Bible of the Later Middle Agesand Reformation in Legend, Ideology,and Scholarship" in the "Journal ofHebrew Scriptures" (2009).

Dr. J. Derek Halvorson was inauguratedas the second president of ProvidenceChristian College in Ontario, California,on September 19.

Professor Peter A. Dykema, ArkansasTech University, has edited Heiko A.Oberman's Calvin articles for publicationas "John Calvin and the Reformation ofthe Refugees" (Librairie Droz). Hecontinues to serve as book review editorfor the ''World History Bulletin" and,stretching out from his comfort zone,played Captain Brackett this past summerin a production of "South Pacific."

Professor Jonathan Reid, East CarolinaUniversity, was promoted to AssociateProfessor in August. His two-volumemonograph, "King's Sister, Queen ofDissent: Marguerite of Navarre (1492-15449) and Her Evangelical Network,"was released in April by Brill.

In Memoriam

Mary Ann Goodman, photographer andfriend of the Division, died August 12after a five-year battle with cancer. Shewill be missed. •

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A word from the Chair

The idea of Humboldt:research and learning

by Ute Lotz-Heumann, Heiko A. Oberman Professor

rEI.. ilhelm von. . Humboldt, the

.. Prussianeducationalreformer and co-

founder of HumboldtUniversity, Berlin, believed inthe unity of research andteaching. His educationalideal saw the university as aplace where professors andstudents would interact toachieve the higher goal oflearning.

I think that Humboldt wasright, but things are a littlemore complicated than thesimple phrase, "the unity ofresearch and teaching,"implies.

When teaching graduateseminars, one is often closeto achieving the unitybetween research andteaching. Complex historicalproblems and historio-graphical discussions are onthe agenda that the teacherherself might have grappledwith just a few years before.Everyone present has theirown finished, ongoing, orplanned research in mindand will contribute examples

from it to the generaldiscussion. It may nothappen every day, butsometimes a studentcontribution gives a teachera new perspective on aproblem that he or shethought was "old hat."Teaching a graduateseminar is therefore alwaysa pleasure.

Teaching undergraduatescan be more of a challenge.Here, one has to exercisepermanent self-control: Am Iusing terms that I haven'tintroduced before? Have Iexplained this event orconcept sufficiently for themto understand the basics ofit?

We need activeresearchers to teachundergraduates. Imagine aprofessor who taught thesame course over and overagain to generations ofundergraduates without everchanging it. Within a fewyears or a decade at themost, he or she would betotally out of touch with thelatest research on thesubject-in short, he or she

would be teachinghopelessly old material in aninstitution which exists to doresearch and to furtherknowledge.

When one looks moreclosely, there is, in fact, moreunity between teaching andresearch in undergraduateinstruction than meets theeye. Not only do we adjustour undergraduate coursesto incorporate our own andothers' research findings. Inaddition, when we work on anew project, we oftensimultaneously start to teachon that subject, bringing ournew insights into theclassroom. Sometimes, thiseven works the other wayaround: I have personallybeen inspired to start a newresearch project afterchanging a syllabus toinclude newer literature.

The unity of research andteaching might not be aseasy and as clear-cut asHumboldt's phrase implies,but it is practiced every dayin our universities. In fact, it'swhat universities are allabout! .

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all societies pose.Presumably all of us wantthose who will soon beresponsible for life-shapingdecisions to considerevidence with a creativelycritical mind and to recognizethe potential consequencesof various outcomes. If wetailor higher education

exclusively toward theacquisition of marketableskills detached from generalknowledge and culturalvalues, the prospectincreases of their beingemployed for non-humane oreven destructive ends. Theuse of marketable skills cannever be ethically neutral.

Having been named aRegents' Professor, Iconsider myself more bound

than ever before to declarethis conviction. To do so isneither heresy nor treachery.It is the heart of fidelity to thisUniversity, to this country,and to our collective youngpeople.

Please remember todonate to the Heiko A.Oberman Chair and LibraryEndowment! We need yourhelp more than ever. •

OBERMAN'S CALVINCOLLECTIONPUBLISHED

Heiko A. Oberman,Division founder,dedicated the lastfifteen years of hisscholarly career-hisArizona years-to thestudy of John Calvinand the pan-EuropeanCalvinist movement.Oberman identified theplight of exile as thecrucible for the livedexperience ofReformed (Calvinist)Christians. Calvinhimself was forced toflee from France in1534 and wasbanished from Genevain 1538. In the decadesstill to come, hisfollowers werepersecuted in France,the Low Countries, andelsewhere in Europe.So crucial was the exileexperience for Calvinand the early Calviniststhat Obermandescribed the entireReformed movementas the "Reformation ofthe Refugees."Professor Obermanhad hoped to write amajor biography ofCalvin, a dream cutshort by his death in2001. However,Oberman had alreadysketched out many ofhis key theses in anumber of articles andessays. Eight of theseessays will bepublished this fall byLibrairie Droz, apublishing house inGeneva, under the title"John Calvin and theReformation of theRefugees." Divisionalumnus Peter Dykemahas edited the articlesand provides anintroduction .•

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At the feet of visiting scholars

James M. Estes, University of Torontoby Rebecca Mueller, doctoral student

individually. These meetingsserved the purpose ofdiscussing research interestsand academic goals. He wassincerely interested in thework of each student, andwillingly offered hisknowledge and expertise. Heprovided encouragement,advice, and constructivecriticism, all of which resultedin renewed fervor to pursueand excel in our respectiveresearch endeavors.

One of the highlights ofProfessor Estes' visit was hispublic lecture, "Luther,Canon Law, and theWittenberg Jurists," in whichhe presented his most recentresearch and writing. Estesaddressed the ambiguity ofLuther toward canon law.While despising, rejecting,and equating canon law withpapal tyranny, Luther founda large portion of it ratheruseful to refute the laws andteachings of the papalchurch and to support theevangelical reformmovement. Estes maintainedthat Luther knew and abodeby two law codes: divine lawand natural law. In additionthe early modern religiousreformer adamantly arguedthat laws must not violatehuman consciences. InLuther's mind, the papalchurch had kept humanconsciences under tyrannicalrule, thus he regarded it asmost crucial to avoid therenewed establishment ofsuch suppression. This,Estes argued, was in fact theessence of Luther'sReformation. The word'consciences' is a term usedmost frequently in Luther's

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n September 14, theDivision for LateMedieval and

/ Reformation Studies hadthe great pleasure of

once again welcomingJames M. Estes, ProfessorEmeritus of History,

James Estes delivers his lecture

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University of Toronto. Estesis a distinguished SeniorFellow of the Center forReformation andRenaissance Studies atVictoria College at theUniversity of Toronto. Amongother books and numerousarticles, he is the author of"Christian Magistrate andTerrtiorial Church: JohannesBrenz and the GermanReformation" (2007) and"Peace, Order and the Gloryof God" (2005). In theforthcoming issue of the"Lutherjahrbuch" (2009), hecontributed an article entitled"Luther's Attitude Toward theLegal Traditions of his Time."

Estes is a loyal friend,mentor, and supporter of theDivision. While in Tucson hewas extraordinarily generouswith his time, and met witheach Division student

writings and demandscareful definition.

Estes further argued,Luther wanted theReformation to come aboutthrough consensus amongpastors, rather than byimposing a "haufen Gesetze"or a bunch of laws. It seemsevident, and is easily tracedin the Table Talk, thatLuther's relationships withlawyers were rather delicateto say the least. He thoughtlegal proceedings to bedishonest and convoluted. Inaddition he saw lawyers asinterfering in matters ofconscience when thoseshould have been matters fortheologians to solve. Thus,on two separate occasions in1539 and 1544 Luther, fromthe pulpit, publiclydenounced Wittenberg courtproceedings that tried touphold canon law regardingcases of clandestineengagement and digamy(remarriage after the deathor divorce of one's firsthusband or wife). Estesconcluded that Luther'svehement opposition to thejurists can only beunderstood in light ofLuther's campaign to keepChristian consciences freefrom the "tormenting burdenof man-made law." Luther'sbelief was founded on thepremise that the "law existsfor the sake of theconscience, not theconscience for the sake ofthe law. If one cannot helpboth at the same time, thenhelp the conscience andoppose the law," and in hismind this is what matteredmost. •

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Five unforgettable doctoral summersPaul Buehler: Goethe Institute, Bonn, Germany

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n May 31st I set footupon German soilfor the first time in

:/ my life. It is difficultto convey the

excitement I felt as Idisembarked the airplane inFrankfurt, especially whenconsidered in light of theinadequacies I had felt asone who studies Germanhistory but who had neverpreviously so much as seteyes on the place. Myprimary task was to receiveeight weeks of languageinstruction at the GoetheInstitute located in Berm-BadGodesberg, for which I hadwon an award from theGerman AcademicExchange Service (DAAD).For five hours every day, forfive days every week, I was

given language instructionexclusively in German.While this certainly providedme with the rudimentsnecessary for expressingmyself in German, lessons inlanguage and culture did notend when I left the GoetheInstitute's campus.

Weekends were free fortravel, and I was fortunate tovisit cities such as Cologne,Aachen, Koblenz, andMunich. Standing for the firsttime before the awesomegrandeur of Cologne'scathedral, I realized thatthere is no substitute forbeing physically present in aplace, regardless of howmuch one has read about it.Thinking about a subject andattempting to understand itmay, of course, be achieved

in the comfort andquiet of one's study,or favorite coffeehouse, or library,but my experiencesin Germany thispast summerconvinced me of thelimitations of suchendeavors conductedwithout having beento the place underinvestigation. Thereare simply too manysimilar revelations torecount, and I believeit therefore to havebeen a hugelysuccessful andpersonallyenlighteningexperience. •

Godesburg ruins

Sean Clark: Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuttel, Germany

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had heard about the. • 0 Herzog August

, Bibliothek (HAB) inWolfenbOttel for

. ',' ,. years before Idecided to make the tripmyself (with the generousfinancial support of theAmerican Friends of theHAB, the UA Department ofHistory, and the Division).People I have great respectfor continually raved about it.The collections, the staff, thetown: all fantastic. At timesthough, the praise seemedalmost over the top, and inthe back of my mind I haddoubts. Could it really be thatgood? After all, the lore ofgraduate school is full ofstories about evil archivistswho wield an arcane powerover access to the dark

recesses of the stacks. I triedto keep my expectations low.

It took less than a day,however, for me to realizethat the praise had beenentirely deserved, andperhaps even a bitinadequate. Even throughthe haze of jetlag, I could tellthat this was a special place.The first time I sat down atone of the long tables in thebright and open readingroom, laid a copy of aseventeenth-centurypilgrimage narrative on theblack foam supports, and feltimmediately absorbed intothe past, I knew I had foundmy home away from home.

In the three weeks that Iwas in residence at the HAB,I spent eight to ten hours aday in the reading room. I

read through dozens ofbooks in preparation for mydissertation research onpilgrimage to Jerusalem inthe early modern perio,Aside from the depthof the collections andthe comfort of thesurroundings, thecamaraderie of theother scholarsworking in the librarywas phenomenal.

I am now in thetedious process ofapplying for grants tosupport my dissertationresearch. As I jump throughthe many hoops required, Ithink back to those happyhours spent in WolfenbOtteland tell myself to keepplugging away so that I canget back there soon. •

Sean Clark (R) with ProfessorPia Cuneo, Wolfenbuttel

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I Tom Donlan: Institut d'histoire de la Reformation, Geneva

tijayand June 2009. was the time to be

. . ,. in Geneva as. . scholars from all

-'----__ ._._ over the world gatheredin the capital of FrenchSwitzerland to commemoratethe 500th anniversary of Jean

Calvin's birth. Ijourneyed toGeneva toparticipate in thecours d'ete(summer courses)and to conductresearch at theInstitut d'histoirede la Reformationat the University of

Tom Donlan Geneva.Directed by the renowned

historian of the FrenchReformation, Philip Benedict,the Institute boasts a staff ofover ten resident scholars,including several leadingnames in Reformationscholarship, such as IrenaBackus and Alain Dufour.Each summer the IHR

welcomes students to taketwo weeklong courses onreligion in the Reformationera. This year's topics were"Free-thinkers, Libertines,and other Challenges toReligion" and "Transmittingthe Sacred." Each dayconsisted of a lecture,usually in French, followedby student presentations.Almost without exception theinstruction was excellent andthe presentationsstimulating. Perhaps themost gratifying aspect of thecours d'ete was theopportunity to work withstudents from so manydifferent countries-Russian,Swiss, German, Italian,French, and Canadianstudents, each bringing theirown academic vocabularyand approach to the study ofreligion.

I spent several additionalweeks conducting researchon the history of relationsbetween Geneva and Savoy

and in particular the Catholicmissions in northern Savoyduring the 1590s. Francoisde Sales, whom I amstudying for my dissertation,spent four years trying toreestablish Catholicism inthis Protestant region whichhad been loyal to Genevaand Berne for more than halfa century. Both the Instituteand the University ofGeneva's libraries houseinvaluable sourcesdocumenting the religiousand political tensionsbetween Geneva andCatholic Savoy, sourceswhich cannot be foundelsewhere. While conductingthis research I had theprivilege of discussing myreading with professorsDufour and DaniellaSolfarino-Camilocci. Thesediscussions helped to bringgreater clarity to thequestions I am asking andhow to frame this aspect ofde Sales' career. •

Mary Kovel: British Library and National Archives, London

1m...ith funding from the. . History Society of the

.. Episcopal Church andthe Institute of HistoricalResearch (IHR) Mellon

Foundation, I am in the last'months of my dissertation on

examining archival records inBirmingham, Coventry,Lichfield, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Worcester. I nowreside in London where I amfinishing my research at theBritish Library and the

printed pamphlets, I have abetter understanding ofconsumer practices,interpersonal relationships,and religious ideologies inWarwickshire during theearly modern period. TheIHR has afforded me awonderful intellectualcommunity in which to meetfellow graduate students andprofessors. I have had theopportunity to present myresearch and engage inseveral conferences.Although this year haspassed by too quickly, I lookforward to returning toTucson and completing mydissertation in the nearfuture. •6

the significance of hair andhead-coverings in sixteenth-century England. For themajority of the year, I havelived in the British Midlands

National Archives. The yearhas proven quite fruitful.After combing thousands ofprobate records along withchurch court records and

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Amy Newhouse: Sack Collections, Newberry Library,Chicago, and the Goethe Institute, Freiburg, Germany

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• am often surprisedo by the fact that I. do not spend all of

my time at the. , . . University of

Arizona learning history, butalso building the skillsneeded to research history.In the spring and summer2009, I was able to takelarge steps toward theseskills through grants which Ireceived to go to Chicagoand Germany-namely, theNewberry RenaissanceConsortium Grant to conductresearch in the Edward E.Ayer and Johan GabrielSack Collection, and a

language study award fromthe German AcademicExchange Service (DAAD)for an eight-week Germanlanguage study course inFreiburg.

At the Newberry library, Istudied early modern mapsof Nuremberg, Germany, asan entrance to my growinginterest in the physicalparameters of people'ssocial and cultural lives inthe sixteenth century.

I then spent the summer inFreiburg taking languageclasses and my first stepsinto a German archive. Iworked on vital language

skills, early modernhandwriting, and,most importantly,how to navigatecomplicated librariesand archives. Eachstep along the wayfills in a piece of theearly modern societyand culture.

And I now feelmuch morecomfortable abouteventually returningto conduct mydissertation researchin earnest; I am nolonger stepping intothe great unknown. •

SAVE THE DATE • za" ANNUAL TOWN AND GOWN LECTURE • MARCH 24, 2010

HEINZ SCHILLINGHUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY, BERLIN, PROFESSOR OF HISTORYWINNER OF THE 2002 DR. A. H. HEINEKEN PRIZE FOR HISTORY

HONORARY DOCTOR OF THEOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF GOTTINGEN, 2009

The relationship between church and state; the role of migrants and minorities;international relations; European urban history; the imposition of norms andvalues; comparison of developments across Europe: most of the researchthemes studied by Heinz Schilling could have come straight from the headlinesof today's newspapers. The difference is that in Schilling's case it is therelationship between all these themes in the early modern period which isimportant, and thus the historical origins of key elements of the world in whichwe now live.Schilling is concerned above all with European history in the time of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, and his work has brought us a more coherent picture of this period. For many years historiansstudying early modern Europe either studied the processes of state formation or religious developments.Schilling, by contrast, studies religious, social and political factors in relation to each other as a process of"confessionalization." He has pointed out that both the newly formed Protestant and the Catholic states beganworking closely with what was generally the only official church within their region. Schilling makes clear thatthere is much greater unity in European history than was previously assumed, and he raises that history abovethe boundaries between countries and religions.Heinz Schilling is the president of the German Society for Reformation History and the European managingeditor of the "Archive for Reformation History." He has published numerous monographs, edited collectionsand articles. Two of his most recent monographs are:"Early Modern European Civilisation and its Political and Cultural Dynamics"(Hanover und London: Brandeis University Press of New England/HistoricalSociety of Israel, 2008)"Konfessionalisierung und Staatsinteressen. Internationale Beziehungen1559-1660" [Confessionalization and State Interests: International Relations, 1559-1660](Paderborn: Schbningh, 2007)

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Division for Late Medievaland Reformation Studies

Douglass 315PO Box 210028Tucson AZ 85721-0028Arizona's First University.

John Calvin at 53 years old,engraving by Rene Boyvin,

1562. This is the 500'hanniversary of Calvin's birth

in Noyon, France.

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Alumni PlacementRobert J. Bast (PhD 1993)University of Tennessee, Knoxville

James Blakeley (PhD 2006)St. Joseph's College, New York

Curtis V. Bostick (PhD 1993)Southern Utah University

Michael W. Bruening (PhD 2002)Missouri Universityof Science & Technology

Robert J. Christman (PhD 2004)Luther College, Iowa

Victoria Christman (PhD 2005)Luther College, Iowa

Peter A. Dykema (PhD 1998)Arkansas Tech University

John Frymire (PhD 2001)University of Missouri

Andrew C. Gow (PhD 1993)University of Alberta, Edmonton

Brad S. Gregory (MA 1989)University of Notre Dame

Brandon Hartley (PhD 2007)Wasatch Academy, Mt. Pleasant, Utah

J. Derek Halvorson (MA 1998)President, Providence Christian College

Sigrun Haude (PhD 1993)University of Cincinnati

Benjamin Kulas (MA 2005)Rye Country Day School, Rye, New York

Nicole Kuropka (MA 1997)Max·Weber·Berufskolleg, Dusseldorf

Marjory E. Lange (PhD minor, 1993)Western Oregon University

Scott M. Manetsch (PhD 1997)Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Michael Milway (PhD 1997)

Jonathan Reid (PhD 2001)East Carolina University

Joshua Rosenthal (PhD 2005)

Eric Leland Saak (PhD 1993)Indiana University,

Purdue University, Indianapolis

Han Song (MA 2002)Ernst & Young, Boston

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