Research Interests:
Early Modern Catholicism; Thirty Years War; Early Modern Political
Thought; History of the Jesuits
Current Research:
William Lamormaini's biography of Emperor Ferdinand II, Ferdinand
II, Romanorum Imperatoris Virtutes.
Courses for Spring Semester 2006:
History 291: Junior Colloquium Approaches to History
History 315: The Reformation
Publications, Books and selected Articles:
The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War. Kings, Courts, and Confessors.
Cambridge U.P., 2003.
The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700: A Reassessment of
the Counter Reformation. London: Macmillan and Washington: Catholic
University of America Press, 1999.
The Counter-Reformation Prince. Antimachiavellianism or Catholic
Statecraft in Early Modern Europe.Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1990.
Politics and Religion in the Age of the Counterreformation:
Emperor Ferdinand II, William Lamormaini, S.J., and the Formation
of Imperial Policy.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1981.
Maximilian von Bayern, Adam Contzen, S.J., und die Gegenreformation
in Deutschland 1624-1635.Schriftenreihe der Historischen Kommission
bei der bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Schrift 13, Göttingen,
1975, pp. 241.
Les jésuites et la conduite de l'État baroque," in Les
jésuites à l'âge baroque 1540-1640, eds. Luce Giard
et Louis de Vaucelles (Grenoble: Jérôme Millon, 1996): 229-42.
"Neue Orden, Katholische Reform und Konfessionalisierung," in
Die katholische Konfessionalisierung, eds. Wolfgang Reinhard
and Heinz Schilling (Münster: Aschendorff, 1995), pp. 145-57
(Reformationsgeschichtliche Studien und Texte, 135).
"Scholasticism and Reason of State," in Aristotelismo politico
e ragion di stato,ed. A. Enzo Baldini (Florence: Olschki, 1995):
pp. 83-101.(Fondazione Luigi Firpo, Centro di Studi sul pensiero
politico, Studi e Testi, 4).
"Confessional Absolutism in the Habsburg Lands in the Seventeenth
Century," in State and Society in Early Modern Austria, ed.
Charles W. Ingrao (West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press,
1994), pp. 36-53.
"Ferdinand II, Founder of the Habsburg Monarchy," in Crown,
Church, and Estates: Central European Politics in the Sixteenth
and Seventeenth Centuries, eds. R.J.W. Evans and Trevor Thomas
(London: Macmillan, 1991), pp. 226-44.
"Two Works by Jean Delumeau: A Review Article, "Catholic Historical
Review 77, 1 (Jan. 1991): 78-88.
"Hofbeichtväter und Politik im 17. Jahrhundert," in Ignatianisch:
Eigenart und Methode der Gesellschaft Jesu, eds. Michael Sievernich,
S.J., and Gunter Switek, S.J. (Freiburg, 1990): 386-403.
Teaching:
Instructor in History, Loyola University Chicago, 1971 (January),
1972
Assistant Professor of History, Loyola, 1972-1976
Associate Professor of History, Loyola, 1976-1982
Professor of History, Loyola, 1982 -
Director, Graduate Seminars at the Newberry Library, 1982 (NEH funded),
1992
Academic Awards and Grants:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, January 1 to July 31,
1983.
National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship,
Sept. 15, 1986 to July 15, 1987.
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., Sept. 15,
1986 to July 15, 1987 (most of stipend declined in favor of NEH
Fellowship).
Loyola University Research Sabbatical (paid), January to May,
1995.
Istituto storico della Compagnia di gesù (Rome), Stipendium
for room and board for three months of archival work, March - May,
1995.
National Humanities Center, Fellow, 1998-9, (funded by the NEH).
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