NOVEMBER 2002 DIVISION FOR LATE MEDIEVAL AND REFORMATION STUDIES

C 0 L LEG E 0 F S 0 C I A L AN D B E H A V lOR A L S C I E N C E S "People ask me why I take an interest in this little division for medieval and Reformation studies, and I say that we have an obligation to keep the story of our civilization alive." VOL. 10, NO.2 -Justice Stanley Feldman, Chair, Advisory Board The view through the round window *

he chall~nge has bee~ made We, in asking for your gifts, and "'.'' to us: raise $600,000 ill you in giving them for the benefit .' donations, pledges, and of University and students, . . :" planned gifts by the end of continue a venerable tradition. mJ this fiscal year, June 30,2003. As at the October 13 grand Founded in 1989 by We have accepted it. The Division launching of our fund-drive, I . Heiko A. Oberman, Fund-Raising Committee is chaired invite your assistance in achieving : . Regents' Professor of by Richard Duffield, and the this mid-way goal on the path to i5!istory, 1930-2001 members are Toetie Oberman, full funding of the Heiko A. INS IDE Luise Betterton, Sandy Hatfield, Oberman Chair in Late Medieval Ginny Healy (Development and Reformation History. When we Oberman Chair Director, College of Social and friends and admirers of Heiko and campaign launch 3 Behavioral Sciences), and I. We are of the era in which he was most Princeton sabbatical 4 hard at work. expert-when we have accomp- Fundraising for schools is not a lished this, his incomparable Guest speaker: Merry Wiesner-Hanks 4 new activity. In the late Middle research library will pass entire to Ages, schoolmasters processed the UA Library. Enrich us, too, Renaissance art historian 5 with their pupils through towns and with your ideas, especially Summer at Notre Dame 6 villages on Saint Gregory's Day in individuals and foundations who

Dissertation groundwork 7 September and Three Kings' Day may share your interest in this in January, asking for donations. watershed period in the European wrote a letter of past and in assisting with endowed thanks to a well-to-do woman who chairs. Look around on the web for had made an indispensable, large us, for we might have overlooked a gift of 500 Gulden to the particular line of inquiry. Do University of Wittenberg-a sum remember the option of making a large enough to support several donation that will in no way lower artisan families for a year, or to buy your standard of living: a planned a substantial house. "Honorable, gift. This can take a number of very virtuous lady!" he wrote in creative forms, and we can refer 1534. "I hereby inform you that you to an expert on these options. your charitable gift, praise God, has I personally remain convinced been very well invested and has of the value to the University and helped and continues to help many the Tucson community of a chair in poor people [students]. I cannot Heiko's name and of the transmittal doubt that the God who assigned of his personal library. With your THE UNlVERSrTY Of you this task will openly show his sustenance of all types, we shall .. pleasure in this thank-offering ... " succeed. TUCSON ARIZONA

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Heiko A. Oberman's final book release: The Two Reformations: Essays on the Journey from the Last Days to the New World (Edited by Donald Weinstein, Yale University Press) by Donald Weinstein, Professor Emeritus of History, from the book jacket .n this last collection of his from Luther to Hitler to the close study of primary sources, o vital, controversial, and Holocaust, and offers a new and deep reflection, Oberman . accessible writings, Heiko perspective on the Christian shows how the study of the [.._U] A. Oberman seeks to legacy of anti-Semitism and its traditions and thinking of the ____ ' '__ " liberate and broaden our murderous result in the twentieth Reformation illuminates not only understanding of the European century. a part of history but also the Reformation, from its origins in Oberman demonstrates how modem world and our medieval philosophy and the simplifications and rigidities assumptions about it. through the Puritan of modem historiography have The late Heiko A. Oberman, settlers who brought Calvin's obscured the existential spirits of one of the twentieth century's vision to the New World. such great figures as Luther and great historians of the Ranging over many topics, Calvin. He explores the debt of Reformation, was at the time of Oberman finds fascinating both Luther and Calvin to his death Regents' Professor of connections between aspects of medieval religious thought and History at The University of the Reformation and twentieth- the impact of diverse features of Arizona. He was the author of century history and thought- "the long fifteenth century"- many books, including the most notably the connection to including the Black Death, definitive biography of Martin Nazism and the Holocaust. He , humanism, and the Luther, Luther: Man Between revisits his earlier work on the Conciliar Movement-e-on the God and the Devil, originally history of anti-Semitism, rejects Reformation. Drawing on a long published by Yale University the notion of an unbroken line and illustrious career of research, Press.x

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CAMPAIGN LAUNCH The Heiko A. Oberman Chair in ''Sclwlar:l J speal«

Late Medieval and Reformation History to in Curope and unday, October 13, Social Effects -.-America are . 2002, marked the of Mass Comm- , ..' ,<." ',' campaign launch to unication at the watchintj the eoenls .: '.~ : fund the endowment University of in JucMn cfo:le~. ~===='= for the Heiko A. California, Oberman Chair in Late Medieval Santa Barbara, Jhe :Jucce:Jlul and Reformation History and the expressed his acquisition of the Oberman support for endowment 01 thi:J Research Library. The monetary the Division's chair will :lend a goal of the fund-drive is $2 million. mission and Once the chair is funded, the his fullest clear mM:Jatjeto the Oberman library, appraised at enthusiasm international $1.2 million in 1998 and for the endow- comprised of over ten thousand ment of the Dean Ed Donnerstein, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, communit'j that the volumes from recent books to Oberman Chair. with Dr. Ida Oberman, eldest daughter of Heiko A. Oberman. early sixteenth-century "raroria," In the coming preseruaiion 01 will go to the University of years, he stated, who could not be present. .i.: Oberman ~ Arizona libraries. the university's excellence can Joel Van Amberg, the Professor Susan C. Karant- only be sustained by generous Division's senior doctoral student, letjac'j, hi:l metlwd:J Nunn, Director of the Division, private gifts. described his own experiences and hi:l :ltandard:l, opened the afternoon event at UA Dean of Libraries Carla Stoffle among historians in his field: Special Collections with said that the acquisition of "Scholars I speak to in Europe and i: been achieved, reminiscences on Heiko Oberman's the Oberman research collection America are watching the events originality. She described his would be her signal achievement in Tucson closely. The successful not in Cambrdtje, careful wrapping and carrying of as dean. endowment of this chair will send rf!a:l:lachu:letl:l,not the oldest, rarest books in his Ginny Healy, Director of a clear message to the inter- library to the Netherlands every Development for the College of national community, that the in JUbintjen, summer in the hope that they Social and Behavioral Sciences, preservation of Heiko Oberman's would be rehumidified after the told the gathering that she first legacy, his methods and his (Jerman'j, but ritjht dryness of the Sonoran Desert. knew that the Division was an standards, has been achieved, not here in :louthern Dean Ed Donnerstein, former important unit to be preserved and in Cambridge, Massachusetts, not -.-Arizona, /I :laid occupant of the Rupe Chair in the enhanced when she saw its record in Ttibingen, Germany, but right for winning Fulbright scholarships. here in southern Arizona." senior doctoral Fully 80 percent of Division Toetie Oberman, widow of doctoral students have been able Heiko, concluded the program :ltudent Joel Van to pursue their dissertation topics with the principle, adhered to by ~mbertj. through the attainment of a her husband throughout his life, Fulbright award. She then referred that there is no substitute for the to the creative ways in which the mastery of foreign languages and UA Foundation could assist the reading of books in order to people in contributing to this gain a better understanding of the cause-without lowering their past and a clearer grasp of the standard of living. present. She urged the audience to Sandy Hatfield, member of the assist in the acquisition of the Division's Fund-Raising extraordinary books that her late Committee, read a strongly husband wished to confer upon supportive statement from Richard the UA. * Duffield, chair of the committee, 3 TUCSON. ARIZONA

Research and the pursuit of happiness by Alan E. Bernstein, Professor of History

n 2001-2002, I was a member and History. The U.S. contributed at the Institute for Advanced many members, but so did Great Study in Princeton. How does Britain, Germany, Russia, Japan, it provide the best possible Taiwan, Israel, and Uzbekistan, environment for research? The among others. Lunch conver- most important single quality is sations and tea time, when freedom: freedom to ask whatever members from the different schools question arises and freedom to could mix, taxed us all for our :Jhe mojt important proclaim whatever answers the recall of things we hadn't studied in evidence indicates. Freedom also decades or our ability to understand jinfjle ttuaht'1 ij has another dimension: good friendly but sometimes arcane freedom: freedom to research requires free time. This explanations of string theory, obvious ideal comes at a high price. theoretical biology, literary .: whatever ttuMtion For a researcher in history, freedom criticism, or canon law. Further, implies tremendous resources in with this worldwide attendance, arises and freedom to books, computers, databases, one had the opportunity to speak Alan E. Bernstein proclaim whatever software, travel funds, staff support, any language one ever knew. With and other "incidentals" like Xerox crucial exceptions, the library did specialties and research methods ansuiers the evidence machines and microform readers. not buy translations into English, made them both resources and The freedom also demands a price so works composed in German, models. The atmosphere of of the researcher. Ideally research French, Greek, Latin, Hebrew had fostering as opposed to competition should not be conducted in to be consulted in the original. created an environment of support isolation, but rather in the midst of Another boon was the and challenge. Simultaneously, the fellow workers in related areas presence of a permanent faculty eminence of the permanent faculty drawn from a variety of disciplines. of outstanding scholars in various and the talents of the members At the Institute, members were fields whose eminence put them created a level of collegial criticism invited in the fields of Mathe- above competition with the visiting that prized the highest empirical

matics, Physics, Social Science, members and whose variety of continued to page 6

At the feet of visiting scholars: "What makes you tick as a historian?" Professor Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

ast April Professor Merry E. Gender in Early Modern Europe Wiesner-Hanks graced the (1st ed. 1993), and Christianity Division seminar with her and Sexuality in the Early Modern aen..presence. for only a few World: Regulating Desire. tU1 hours. The seminar convened Reforming Practice (2000). She at an unaccustomed time in order has written, translated, and edited to accommodate her primary numerous other works, including, engagement, at the meetings of the with Susan Karant-Nunn, the Renaissance Society of America forthcoming Luther on Women: A taking place in Scottsdale. Wiesner- Sourcebook. She spoke to the Hanks is this country's leading seminar on the subject introduced expert on early modem German by Heiko A. Oberman, "What women's history and European makes me tick as a historian?" She women's history in general. Her provided many anecdotes on the principal authored works are struggles that women scholars in Working Women in Renaissance this country still faced as recently Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks 4 Germany (1986), Women and as 20 years ago. '* TUCSON, ARIZONA

Division announces new associated faculty Renaissance art historian by Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Director, Professor of History

ast year I had the medieval and Reformation-era , . -~ pleasure of announcing history. that colleagues in the This autumn I am delighted to • '_ Department of History, tell you that Professor Pia Cuneo r. Ia]. Alan E. Bernstein and from the Art History area of the Helen Nader, had accepted my Art Department has also accepted invitation to be associated with associated status. She took the the Division. Although they both M. A. and the Ph.D. degrees in already taught numerous art history at Northwestern Division students, they agreed to University. Her revised teach in turn the so-called dissertation, on the artist Jorg Division seminar that is offered Breu the Elder (ca. 1475-1536) each semester. Helen Nader is and the relations between art and presently presiding over a large, civic power in Augsburg, was lively seminar on charity in early published by Brill in 1998. Her modem Spain, and students who edited volume, Artful Armies, previously had had no exposure Beautiful Battles: Art and I to Iberia or to Spanish are Warfare in Early Modern Tournament scene. Jorg Breu the Elder, ca. 1510-1515 expanding their minds apace. Europe, appeared last year. A Next year, Alan Bernstein will number of her essays have carrying out research on the offer the Division seminar on a appeared in prominent journals image of the horse in early Pro/e:J:JorCuneo subject of his choosing within a or as chapters in books. Professor modem Europe. She has range of topics that would be Cuneo presently refers to herself informed and entertained those of pre!Jent4 re/erd to useful to specialists in late as a "hippologist," for she is us who have read or heard her herdef/ ad a recent papers on the ways in which women were identified "hifPofo~idt, "/or dhe with horses and on early modem i:l carrljin~ out books about bits ("bit books") as a source of information about re!Jearchon the larger cultural patterns in the Renaissance. ima~e 01 the horde in Heiko Oberman regarded ear4 modern Cuneo as an outstanding scholar and treasured colleague. Cuneo europe. has served on two History Department search committees. During the academic year 2004-2005, Cuneo will teach the Division seminar. Its subject will be art and the Reformation. In an outspokenly interdisciplinary employment market, exposure to the methods and evidence of art historians will greatly enhance history students' approaches to the past. *

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Summer in the arms of Notre Dame by Tom de Mayo, doctoral student, History Department

his summer, I studied Latin Some aspects of the campus dorms elementary and high- -\' "at·the University of Notre were a bit of a shock to me school students arrived for sports -- Dame. The University's coming from a public, secular camps about every two weeks. . _ "";;0" Medieval Institute offers university. An enormous mural There was also a deacons' retreat mJ classes at several levels in of Christ adorned the library and a gathering of African Greek, Latin, Arabic, and a few (called "Touchdown Jesus"as his bishops. other languages. hands were raised above his head I myself took Professor Frank The University is very in benediction), and I half- Mantello's six-week medieval attractive during the summer- expected beams of light from its Latin course, and audited his Jhe Univerjillj lush and green and exceptionally eyes to smite down malfeasants Latin paleo-graphy class. The (dare I say immaculately?) well- with overdue library books. Each Medieval class met three days a 01 notre ::Dame kept, with grey gothic buildings dorm had its own chapel, and week in the morning for about ij verlj attractive constituting the heart of campus. each floor a rector-either a three hours, and combined The weather was hot and muggy, priest or a nun--during the prepared translations, informal duriniJ the summer= but not nearly as broiling as regular school year. sight reading, and a series of Tucson, and only occasionally Various other groups passed exercises involving standard !ujh and iJreenand rainy. Visiting graduate students through campus during the research tools and editions. The exceptiona!4 (dare !) (or at any rate, those who were summer; the Latin classes lasted paleography class took up willing to pay extra for air- both summer sessions, but many afternoons after medieval Latin jalj immacu!ate41 conditioning) were housed just other courses were scheduled for (again about three hours) and we!tkept. south of the main quad in O'Neill shorter lengths of time. My floor was a whirlwind tour of scripts Hall, one of four new dorm on O'Neill was occupied by two and tools. All in all, I found the buildings. Many of my fellow successive groups of theology sequence grueling but Latin students lived there as well. students, while in the other enjoyable. *

Research and the pursuit of me on schedule. JoAnne, a Professor of Renaissance happiness continued from page 4 Meanwhile at lunch and at tea Art History, shared research with and in the hallways and over pizza a specialist in medieval warfare standards together with the in the evening, I picked the brains and completed a research project encouragement of speculation of other members from around the on the history of armor. One of my and innovation. The intellectual world. It wasn't always scholarship favorite disputants was the husband atmosphere, however congenial, either. My stay in Princeton was of a colleague, an economist, with nonetheless runs into a dead end in the aftermath of September 11, a keen wit, a sharp tongue, and a without free time and the further 2001. Similarly, in the spring of biting sense of humor. From the freedom conferred by money, 2002, I commenced my study of permanent faculty, hosts of the library and other resources, a the Qur'an while the Israeli seminars, to the members and their stimulating intellectual atmosphere, Defense Forces were in Jenin and spouses, to the faculty of nearby emulation without conformity, Ramalla. My colleagues were Princeton University and Princeton challenge without competition, and coaching me in Islamic studies one Theological Seminary, and even the human interaction that moment and arguing Arab/lsraeli "townspeople" like my newly encourages all participants to politics the next. Disagreement discovered friend, the retired function as close as possible to their sometimes emerged, but more Presbyterian minister, the people highest intellectual potential. often we reflected on the links made the year. Conversation My own experience bears out between scholarship, ethics, cemented the bonds. No the way this system can work. I politics, and religion. The trick is environment can guarantee a went to the Institute to complete to keep them separate! The joy successful personal chemistry for the sequel to my 1993 book, The last year was to let them run so diverse a group, but the Formation of Hell. As I got to experimentally together under the atmosphere the Institute fosters know the permanent faculty, I watchful eye of friends. should inspire other research arranged to speak to their seminars One huge boon at the Institute centers to strive in that direction, in October, December, February, is the welcome participation of if they have the means. * 6 and March. These deadlines kept members' spouses. My wife TUCSON, ARIZONA

The "Laboratory of Learning" by Joshua Rosenthal, doctoral student

he laboratory of learning extends beyond .. the classroom." This . . :...••.····well-kno•wn·m·axim· mJ encapsulates the notion that students often significantly benefit from "extracurricular" experiences. The Studen{j can superb training here in Tucson is indeed seminal to one's future undertake a 9001 deal aspirations; however, it represents only a portion of one's academic 01 rejearch on thif, jufe foundations, another significant 01 the --4tlanlic, part of which is built upon experiences that occur outside the 9atheri~ classroom. During this past Uni Bastions, Batiment central, at the Universite de Geneve, home of the Institute of the History of the Reformation summer I was fortunate enough to tJiw9raphiej, find myself benefiting from that I needed for my dissertation international summer seminar. compi&n9 i:01 several such extracurricular research. With these documents, I Scholars are able to consult experiences. hope to explore some of the archival materials, and they are jOUrCMa, nd Students can undertake a good tensions between family and faith also offered first-rate instruction correspondinq with deal of research on this side of the in the French wars of religion. and a forum for discussing their Atlantic, gathering bibliographies, Specifically, the French noble discoveries. The Genevan jcholarj expert in a compiling lists of sources, and family Mornay is replete with both experience was a combination of 9il/en topic. corresponding with scholars expert Roman Catholic bishops and an academic Disneyland and a in a given topic. Nevertheless, at a Huguenot leaders and thus an ideal scholarly boot camp; the fusion of neverthe/ejj, at a certain point one must cross the candidate. After cataloguing easy access to relevant materials, Atlantic in search of sources. My numerous Mornay family thorough lectures, rigorous certain point one musi search began at the National documents, I was nothing less than discussions, and scrupulous crOjj the --4tlanlic in Archives of France. Making my elated to confurn that this deliberations made for a wonderful way through several bureaucratic evidentiary basis is large enough experience. Finally, I concluded levels, I had a sense of what to support such an exploration. the tour in St. Louis, where the medieval administration must have However, locating this evidence Center for Reformation Research been like. However, I was in no was only part of my task. I also conducts a paleography institute. way prepared for the early modem needed to contextualize these This proved to be a valuable documents with which I was materials, particularly the printed finale. Throughout all of these confronted. Although I had studied works. There is no better place to wanderings, I benefited from the paleography, this series of undertake such an investigation Division's network of scholars and scribbles had me shedding enough than at the Reformation Studies alumni, whether from assistance tears to merit the attention of the Institute at the University of St. given by Professors Andrew archivist, who quickly handed me Andrews, Scotland, where Pettegree and Irena Backus, or tissues lest I dampen the researchers are compiling a from the guidance of our own documents. With much weeping database of every French book Jonathan Reid. To all of these, and and gnashing of teeth, I began to printed in the sixteenth century. others, I owe my most profound make progress and eventually Thus I found myself in St. thanks, but especially to the found myself reading these scripts! Andrews, graciously allowed to support of Professor Susan Karant- This process was repeated at peruse and copy requisite Nunn and to the Division for the several libraries and archives in information. funding that made these Paris and throughout other Geneva was the next stop on extracurricular experiences regional institutions. By the end of my tour. The Institute of the possible. * my stay in France, I had amassed History of the Reformation at the extended inventories of documents University of Geneva hosts an 7 TUCSON, ARIZONA

UA Division for Late Medieval & Reformation Studies Alumni Placement "The placing of recipients of advanced degrees has grown notably in difficulty during the past decade ... The most noted gradu- ate schools, along with the less eminent, are having serious trouble in placing even their talented candidates, and in no branch of /00 percent jot the social sciences is this so true as in history .... " Excerpt from Perspectives, newsmagazine of the American Historical Association, September 2002 placement since Robert Bast (1993) Andrew Gow (1993) Scott Manetsch (1997) our inception in University of Tennessee, Knoxville University of Alberta, Edmonton Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Department of History Department of History Department of Church History /989 Curtis Bostick (1993) Brad Gregory Michael Milway (1997) Southern Utah University (MA 1989; Ph.D. Princeton, 1996) Wellesley College Department of History Stanford University Department of History Department of History Michael Bruening (2002) Jonathan Reid (2001) Concordia University, Irvine Sigrun Haude (1993) East Carolina University Department of History University of Cincinnati Department of History Department of History Peter Dykema (1998) Eric Saak (1993) Arkansas Tech University Nicole Kuropka (MA 1997) University of Tennessee, Knoxville Department of Social Sciences Fellow, Institut fOr Europaische Lecturer, Department of History and Philosophy Geschichte, Mainz Jeff Tyler (1995) John Frymire (2001) Marjory Lange Hope College, Michigan woodcut, "Master and Pupils," University of Missouri, Columbia (1993, English major, History minor) Department of Religion from Mirrour of the World, Department of History Western Oregon University Westminster, ca. 1481 Department of English

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