Books, Etc.
Online Links to Faculty Publications

Translation of Bettini, Classical Indiscretions: A Millennial Enquiry into the State of the Classics

Pierpaolo Vergerio the Elder and Saint Jerome: An Edition and Translation of Sermones Pro Sancto Hieronymo - Amazon

Funeral Oratory and the Cultural Ideals of Italian Humanism - Amazon

Pierpaolo Vergerio the Elder: The Humanist As Orator - Amazon

John McManamon, S.J.

Ph.D. University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), 1984 Specialization: Renaissance Europe

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Research Interests:

Italian Renaissance humanism, palaeography and codicology, mediaeval nautical archaeology.

Courses for Spring Semester 2007:

History 101 Evolution Western Idea/Inst. to 17C

History 489/Theo 461: Early Modern Europe 1450-1648 Course Topic: Jesuit Saints

Publications:

"The Ideal Renaissance Pope: Funeral Oratory from the Papal Court." Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 14 (1976): 9-70.

"Renaissance Preaching: Theory and Practice. A Holy Thursday Sermon of Aurelio Brandolini." Viator 10 (1979): 355-73.

"Innovation in Early Humanist Rhetoric: The Oratory of Pier Paolo Vergerio (the Elder)." Rinascimento NS 22 (1982): 3-32.

"Pier Paolo Vergerio (the Elder) and the Beginnings of the Humanist Cult of Jerome." The Catholic Historical Review 71 (1985): 353-71.

Funeral Oratory and the Cultural Ideals of Italian Humanism. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

"Continuity and Change in the Ideals of Humanism: The Evidence from Florentine Funeral Oratory." In Life and Death in Fifteenth-Century Florence, edited by Marcel Tetel, Ronald G. Witt, and Rona Goffen, pp. 68-87. Durham: Duke University Press, 1989.

"The Sinking of the Wells Burt." Inland Seas 46 (1990): 174-82.

"Marketing a Medici Regime: The Funeral Oration of Marcello Virgilio Adriani for Giuliano de' Medici (1516)." Renaissance Quarterly 44 (1991): 1-41.

Pierpaolo Vergerio the Elder: The Humanist as Orator. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies 163. Tempe, Ariz.: MRTS, 1996.

"Pierpaolo Vergerio the Elder." In Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. Paul N. Grendler, 6:242-44. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

Pierpaolo Vergerio the Elder and Saint Jerome: An Edition and Translation of "Sermones pro Sancto Hieronymo". Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies 177. Tempe, Ariz.: MRTS, 1999.

With Ayse D. Atauz. "Underwater Survey of Malta." The Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) Quarterly 28, no. 1 (2001): 22-28.

English translation: Maurizio Bettini. Classical Indiscretions. London: Duckworth, 2001 (Italian original: I classici nell'età dell'indiscrezione. Turin: Einaudi, 1995).

"The 'Archaeology' of Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts on Shipbuilding." The INA Quarterly, 28, no. 4 (2001): 17-25.

English translation: Marco D'Agostino and Stefano Medas. "Excavation and Recording of the Medieval Hulls at San Marco di Boccalama (Venice)." The INA Quarterly, 30, no. 1 (2003): 22-28.

"Maltese Seafaring in Medieval and Post-Medieval Times." Mediterranean Historical Review 18 (2003): 32-58.

With Frederick M. Hocker: "Mediaeval Shipbuilding in the Mediterranean and Written Culture at Venice." Mediterranean Historical Review 21 (2006): 1-37.

"Catholic Identity and Anti-Semitism in a Eulogy for Isabel 'the Catholic.'" Forthcoming in The Journal of Ecumenical Studies.

Office Phone: (773) 508-2222

E-mail address: jmcmana@luc.edu

Office Hours: MW 9:30 - 11:15 a.m. and by appt.

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