Michael L. Monheit
Associate Professor, Renaissance, Reformation, Early
Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History
Office: 377 Humanities
Contact me:
Telephone:
- 251/460-6210 (receptionist)
- 251/460-6868 (office)
- 251/460-6750 (fax)
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Education:
B.A., 
University of California Berkeley,
in History, 1976
Major Publications:
“Word Against Image: A Reconsideration of
Calvin's View on the Role of
Art in Worship,” in Calvin,
Beza and Later Calvinism: Papers Presented at the 15th Colloquium of
the Calvin Studies
Society, April 7-9, 2005, ed. David
Foxgrover, 83-108, Grand Rapids, Michigan (Calvin Studies Society)
2006. ABSTRACT.
"Guillaume Budé, Andrea Alciato, and
Pierre de l'Estoile: Renaissance Interpreters of Roman Law," The
Journal
of
the
History
of
Ideas, vol. 58, no. 1, January 1997,
21-40. Winner of the Selma V. Forkosch Award for the best article
in the Journal for 1997. ABSTRACT.
"Young Calvin, Textual Interpretation and
Roman Law," Bibliothèque
d'Humanisme
et
Renaissance, Tome LIX, no. 2, 1997, 263-282. ABSTRACT.
"The Origins of the edictalis-decretalis bonorum possessio
Distinction in a Renaissance Defense of Scholastic Hermeneutics," Quaderni
fiorentini
per
la
storia
del
pensiero
giuridico
moderno, Vol. XXV,
1996. ABSTRACT
"'The ambition for an illustrious name':
Humanism, Patronage, and Calvin's Doctrine of the Calling," The Sixteenth Century
Journal, Vol. XXIII, No. 2, (Summer 1992), pp. 267-87. ABSTRACT.
Current Research:
Book in progress: Calvin: The Formation of
a Religious Sensibility, 1528-39
Abstract
Part I considers several important aspects of Calvin's life
and education before he turned to religious reform: his attitude toward
patronage and his
relationship with his major patron; his legal education, which exposed
him
to a thoroughly scholastic approach to textual interpretation; his
personal relationships; his involvement with stoicism evident in his Commentary
on
Seneca's de clementia (1532). Part II considers the role of
these factors in his decision to become a religious reformer and
theologian. It particularly emphasizes his doctrines of the calling, of
images, his criteria for recognizing the presence of the Holy Spirit
within, and his approach to
Scriptural interpretation and exegesis as responses to his prior
education and experience.
Read a more extensive description of my book.
Teaching Areas:
- Reformation
Europe, HY 353:
The role of religious change in the 16th century. Students
read a narrative overview covering Protestant and Catholic Reform,, a
major book on an
important aspect of the period, and
original writings by major figures (translated into English) such as
Erasmus, Luther, Calvin, Loyola, St. Teresa of Avila. Students
also write a
paper using primary sources (topics and sources are suggested by
instructor).
- Historical
Approaches to the Study of Religion:
This class considers a
range of approaches to writing the history of religion, beginning with
medieval historians, and concluding with current leading scholars.
- Western
Civilization
I
HY
101:
History of humankind emphasizing the rise of the West.
Students read selections from original
writings (in English translation) from each period we study, as well as
a textbook.
- Renaissance Europe
Graduate Course HY 552
Considers major topics in the history of the Renaissance,
emphasizing intellectual and cultural history.
- Reformation Europe
Graduate
Course: HY 553
Considers major topics in the history of the Reformation,
emphasizing intellectual and cultural history.
- Major European Thinkers of the
Last
Five Hundred Years, HY 541
Considers major European thinkers, such as Luther,
Rousseau, Darwin, Marx, Freud, De Beauvoir, in the intellectual and
social
contexts
of their time.
Community Activities:
Member of the Board of the Mobile Chamber Music Society,
which presents six concert
programs, many at the Laidlaw Performing Arts Center, University of
South Alabama.
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Princeton University in History, 1988