Gregory Hanlon

University Research Professor

Office: 3176 McCain Arts & Social Science Building Office Hours: Summer term:  By appointment Email: gregory.hanlon@dal.ca Tel: 902-494-3642 (v) 902-494-3349 (fax)

  
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Early modern Italy; early modern France; behavioural history; religious behaviour; baroque civilization; war & society; crime & punishment; material culture & display; human ethology & social psychology. History from Darwin


PUBLICATIONS

Books

1) The Hero of Italy:  the duke of Parma and the Thirty Years' War, forthcoming

2) Vita Rurale in Terra Di Siena Nel Seicento Natura., Pascal Editrice, 2008.  Italian Translation

3) Human Nature in Rural Tuscany: an early modern history., Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007. (Italian translation completed, by dott. Simone Caffari)

4) The Origins of Modern Italy 1550-1800; Three seasons in European History , London & New York,  Palgrave, 2000 (Italian translation, Il Mulino, Storia dell’Italia moderna, Bologna, 2002) Italian Translation

5) The Twilight of a Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats and European Conflicts, 1560-1800, London, University College London Press, (now Taylor & Francis) 1998

6) Confession and Community in Seventeenth-Century France:  Catholic and Protestant coexistence in  Aquitaine, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993, 312 pp.

7) L'Univers des gens de bien:  Culture et comportements des elites urbaines en Agenais-Condomois au XVlle siecle, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 1989, 391 pp.

Reference Work

Early Modern Italy:  a Comprehensive Bibliography in English and French, containing in addition an extended historiographical survey of the literature (with maps & graphs), 10th edition, January 2012, 768 pp., 15,302 titles. 


Major Articles

L’Infanticide “à la chinoise” en Europe moderne, L’Histoire, forthcoming, 2012

Wartime mortality in Italy’s Thirty Years’ War: the duchy of Parma 1635-1637, Histoire: Economie & Société, forthcoming 2012

Milices actives et milices passives dans l’Italie du Nord au début du conflit franco-espagnol (1635-1637), Faire la guerre, faire la paix: Actes du 136e Congrès National des Sociétés Historiques et Scientifiques, Perpignan, 2011, forthcoming 2012

The Facts of Life in Rural Counter-Reformation Tuscany, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XL 2009, pp. 1-31 

The Italian States, in A Companion to Eighteenth-century Europe, ed. Peter H. Wilson, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford 2008, pp. 304-321 

In praise of refeudalization: Princes and feudataries in north-central Italy from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, Sociability and its discontents: civil society, social capital and their alternatives in Early Modern Europe, Nicholas Eckstein & Nicholas Terpstra eds, Brepols, Turnhout Brepols, Turnhout, 2009, pp. 213-226

Les Passions d’un historien: Mélanges en l’honneur de Jean-Pierre Poussou, Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne Paris, 2010, pp. 565

Decline of the Italian military aristocracy: from sword to surplice, Italian Politics and Society, #60, Spring 2005, pp. 52-57

La féodalité bénigne d’un fief toscan au XVIIe siècle, Pouvoirs, contestations et comportements dans l’Europe moderne: Mélanges en l’honneur du professeur Yves-Marie Bercé, Paris, Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2005, pp. 881-893.

Justice in the age of lordship: a feudal court in Tuscany during the Medici era (1619-1666), Sixteenth Century Journal, 35, 2004, pp. 1005-1033.

Glorifying War in a peaceful city: Festive representation of combat in Baroque Siena (1590-1740), War in History, 11, 2004, 249-77.

L’équilibre confessionnel en Aquitaine au lendemain de l’Edit de Nantes: Un tableau en demi-teintes, Bibliothèque de l’Ecole des Chartes, 160, 2003, pp. 629-40.

Infanticidio dei coppie sposati nella Toscana moderna, secoli XVI-XVIII, Quaderni Storici, 38, #113, 2003, pp. 453-498.

The Decline of Violence in Early Modern Italy: a model, G. Ruggiero ed., The Blackwell Companion to Renaissance Studies, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2002, pp. 139-155.

La fin de la vocation militaire de la noblesse italienne, Histoire socioculturelle des armées: Centre d’études d’histoire de la défense, cahier #7, Vincennes, 1998, pp. 29-42.

The Demilitarization of an Italian Provincial Nobility; Siena 1560-1740, Past and Present, #155, 1997 pp. 64-108.

Wills, Inheritance and the Moral Order in Seventeenth-century Aquitaine, Journal of Family History, 1990, co-authored with Elspeth Carruthers

Exorcisme et cosmologie tridentine; trois cas agenais en 1619, Revue de la Bibliothèque nationale, 1988, pp.12-27, co-authored with Geoffrey Snow

Catholics and Protestants in 17th-century Aquitaine, Canada’s Huguenot Heritage, Toronto 1987

Rituels de l'agression en Aquitaine au 17e siècle, Annales; Economies, Sociétés, Civilisations, 1985, pp.244-268

Piété populaire et intervention des moines dans les miracles et les sanctuaires miraculeux en Agenais-Condomois au 17e siècle, Annales du Midi, 1985, pp.115-127

La fortune des marchands et des négociants de Libourne à la veille de la Révolution, Actes du 29e congrès d'études régionales du Sud-Ouest, 1977, Bordeaux, 1979, pp.17-24, co-authored with Jean-Paul Jourdan



Recent Encyclopedia Articles

Italian Wars (1494-1559); Early Modern Italy; Milan; Europe 1450 to 1789: Enclyclopedia of the Early Modern World, Scribner's, New York, 2003.

Book-length Research Projects

Bella Figura: craving admiration in Baroque Italy

The Hero of Italy: Odoardo Farnese, duke of Parma, his soldiers & his subjects in the Thirty Years War (1635-1637)



Prizes & Distinctions

1984   Prix Tonnadre; 5,000 FF awarded by the Société académique d’Agen, for my thesis, Culture et comportements des élites urbaines en Agenais-Condomois au 17e siècle           

1989    Canada Research Fellowship (declined, in order to take the position at Dalhousie University)

1992    Brewer Prize; $1,000 U.S., awarded by the American Society for Church History, for the best book manuscript in any field of religious history in 1992

1995    Runner-up (after initial tie) for the prize awarded by the American Huguenot Society for the book, Confessions and Community in Seventeenth-century Aquitaine

1998    Marraro Prize; $500.00 U.S., awarded by the Society for Italian Historical Studies, for the best book in Italian history published in 1998, Twilight of a Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats & European Conflicts

2003    SSHRC High Performer, designated such by a doctoral research project by A. Chawla, under the direction of Dr. Steven Cronshaw, Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, University of Guelph.

2006 to present   Dalhousie University Research Professor

2007    International conference around my book:  The Twilight of a Military Tradition, at Reggia di Venaria, Italy.  30 November - 1 December 2007, entitled Riflessioni sulla "Piedmontese exception."  Acts published under the title Il Piemonte come eccezione?
Paola Bianchi ed., Torino. 2008

I will consider the files of students desiring to work on diverse aspects of early modern Italy (circa 1550 to 1795).  Graduate teaching will focus on the most common kinds of archival sources available and the ways historians use them, so students will receive training in 16th and 17th-century palaeography, that is, mastery of handwriting forms from the period. While historiography and the literature is not neglected, special emphasis will be placed on the contribution of a variety of behavioural sciences to the study of historical problems. These include the classic disciplines of sociology (Raymond Boudon especially), social psychology, anthropology on the one hand, and the more recent disciplines of primate and human ethology and evolutionary psychology on the other.  Behavioral Science titles for Historians

A reading ability in French is necessary from the outset, and reading ability in Italian must be acquired soon after. A reading ability in Latin is encouraged, and is required for many topics.

Topics supervised to date:

Town government in Aquitaine during the Thirty Years War (M.A.) James Logan

Bandits in rural southern Tuscany circa 1700 (M.A.) Peter Cullen

Italian aristocrats in Habsburg armies (Spain & Austria) (M.A.) Elmar Henrich

Aristocratic lineage in north-central Italy (M.A.) Edward Michalek

The social world of medical personnel in Farnese Parma (M.A.) Elizabeth Maynes

Capital executions in Farnese Parma (M.A.) Brad Meredith

Routine infanticide by married couples in Parma, 16th - 18th century (M.A.) Laura Hynes

Grace from Above:  Petitions and Appeals in Farnese Parma, 1631-1727 (M.A.)
Colin Rose

Mountain Peasants in an Age of Global Cooling (M.A.) Robin Greene

The world of books and reading in Farnese Parma (PhD) Federica Dallasta

How a city functioned: Piacenza 1550-1750 (PhD) Cheryl Bradbee

Dalhousie Graduate Research on Baroque Italy
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Encouraged research areas: 

Popular literacy in Italy prior to 1760 (rural & urban)

The Thirty Years War in Italy, 1613-1659

Popular standards of living in city & country

Inquisition & intellectual life

Homicide in the 16th and 17th centuries

The World of Mountain Peasants

Annotated editions of urban chronicles

Social mobility in Baroque Italy

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