Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies - DLMRS

In Memoriam
The Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies mourns the loss of Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Peder Sather Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Brady was a leading historian of the Reformation and early modern central Europe. His last of five monographs, German Histories in the Age of Reformations, 1400-1650, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009 and was awarded the Gerald Strauss Book Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference.
Together with his wife, Kathy Brady, Tom Brady supported and worked with many of us in the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies.
He was co-editor, with Heiko A. Oberman, the Division’s founder and Regents Professor of History at the University of Arizona, and with James D. Tracy, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Minnesota, of the two-volume Handbook of European History 1400-1600: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation (Leiden: Brill, 1994-95).
In the fall of 2007, Tom Brady was the Heiko A. Oberman Visiting Professor in Late Medieval and Reformation History at the University of Arizona, and in 2012, he gave the Division’s annual Town and Gown Lecture on the topic “Germany, Europe, World Christianity: Reformations Lost and Found.”
We in the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies will always cherish our memories of Professor Thomas A. Brady.

Less than 72 hours to go! Please join us for the 38th Annual Town and Gown Lecture with Professor Francesca Trivellato, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Modern European History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.
Her lecture is entitled “The Familiarity of Strangers: Commercial Cosmopolitanism and Religious Minorities in the Early Modern Period.”
When: Thursday, March 6, 2025, 7:00 pm-8:00 pm, reception to follow
Where: University of Arizona, ENR2 S107

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If you are in Tucson and its environs, you are cordially invited to join us for the 38th Annual Town and Gown Lecture on Thursday, March 6, at 7 pm!
Professor Francesca Trivellato, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Modern European History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, will speak on the topic "The Familiarity of Strangers: Commercial Cosmopolitanism and Religious Minorities in the Early Modern Period."
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Reception to follow.
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Wishing you a Happy New Year from all of us in the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies!
Please check out our Desert Harvest newsletter, vol. 32 (2024), which marks the 35th anniversary of the Division, athttps://dlmrs.arizona.edu/sites/dlmrs.arizona.edu/files/2025-01/2024_Desert-Harvest_final.pdf

Table of contents:
The Division at 35: 2024 in Review by Ute Lotz-Heumann
2024: A Year of New Beginnings, Nuns and the Peasants’ War, and Kreppel by Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer
Announcement: Town & Gown Lecture, 6 March 2025
2024 Town & Gown Lecture with Professor Nicholas Terpstra by Timothy Anthony
A Year of Research and Immersion in Germany by Abby Gibbons
Summer Trip to France and Germany by Courtney Hall
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Congratulations to Benjamin Miller for successfully defending his dissertation! Ben's dissertation is entitled "Serving Three Masters? Hessian Military Chaplains Between Church, State, and Regiment (c. 1650-1800)."

Image: Ben and his committee (co-chairs Profs. Beth Plummer and Ute Lotz-Heumann and committee member Prof. David Graizbord) after his defense on Zoom.

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Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Abby Gibbons! Abby has been awarded a Bilinski Fellowship from the University of Arizona Graduate College. This fellowship will provide her with three semesters of funding to finish her dissertation.

Abby is currently in Germany, funded by a German Academic Exchange Grant (DAAD) doing research at the city archives in Augsburg and Nördlingen for her dissertation. Her dissertation explores the transformation of space and social networks as a result of criminal transgressions in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany. She is particularly interested in how people related to one another during and following a crime and how space became defined in its wake. She focuses specifically on the city of Augsburg and the town of Nördlingen as she examines early modern court records, legal codes, tax records, city council minutes, and maps. In the fall, she will be in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, as the NEH-Funded Research Assistant for the Shared Churches Project, before returning to Tucson in January to begin her Bilinski Fellowship.

Women, History, and Disasters: Q&A with Rachel Small Women, History, and Disasters: Q&A with Rachel Small Monday Image In celebration of Women’s History Month, we spoke with Rachel Small, a Fulbright Scholar and Ph.D. candidate in the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, or DMLRS, in the Department of History. In August 2024, Rachel w...

Congratulations to Kevin Gosner, Professor in the Department of History and Division-affiliated faculty member, who has received a University of Arizona Mentoring Future Scholars Award!
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Please join us on February 6 for our 37th Annual Town and Gown Lecture featuring Nicholas Terpstra, Professor of History, University of Toronto, and President of the Renaissance Society of America.
Professor Terpstra's lecture is titled "Blood and Betrayal: Meanings in the Massacre of the Innocents."
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Congratulations to Professor Beth Plummer, Susan C. Karant-Nunn Chair of Reformation and Early Modern History! Professor Plummer has been awarded the 2022 Hans Rosenberg Book Prize by the Central European History Society for her monograph "Stripping the Veil: Convent Reform, Protestant Nuns, and Female Devotional Life in Sixteenth-Century Germany."
Don't miss the laudatio, which is available online at
https://www.centraleuropeanhistory.org/?page_id=909
In 2023, Professor Plummer was also awarded the Roland H. Bainton Prize in History and Theology from the Sixteenth Century Society for "Stripping the Veil"!

If you are in Southern Arizona, please join us on February 6 for our 37th Annual Town and Gown Lecture featuring Nicholas Terpstra, Professor of History, University of Toronto, and President of the Renaissance Society of America.
Professor Terpstra's lecture is titled "Blood and Betrayal: Meanings in the Massacre of the Innocents."
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Wishing you a Happy and Healthy New Year from all of us in the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies!

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