Curriculum Vitæ

William Bradford Smith

 

 

Education

 

Ph.D.  Emory University, 1992

Dissertation: “Regio et Religio: Confession and State-Building in Upper Franconia, 1420-1620,”

Advisor: James Van Horn Melton, Readers: Douglas Unfug and William Beik

 

Examination Fields: Early Modern Europe, 1300-1715; Medieval Europe, 300-1300

Examination Committee: Russell Major, George Cuttino, Thomas Burns, and James Van Horn Melton

 

Secondary Fields: Modern Germany, Demography and Quantitative Methods,

European Economic History

 

A.B.  The University of Michigan, 1985

Majors:  History and German

 

 

Employment

 

Oglethorpe University

Chair, Division of History, Politics, and International Studies (2001-)

Professor of History (2007)

Associate Professor of History [with tenure] (1999)

Assistant Professor of History (1993)

Visiting Instructor of History (1992)

 

Emory University

Teaching Associate (1990-1992)

Teaching Assistant (1988-1989)

 

Pitts Theology Library (rare books and manuscript collections), Emory University (1992-1994)

 

Special Collections Department (manuscripts), Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University (1988-1991)

 

 

Professional Service and Affiliation

 

Society for Reformation Research -- Executive Board Member and Corresponding Secretary

Sixteenth Century Studies Society

American Historical Association

Frühe Neuzeit Interdiziplinär

 

Publications

 

Books:

 

The Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection: An Annotated Bibliography.  Emory Texts and Studies in Ecclesial Life, Volumes 3-6.  Atlanta:  Scholars Press, 1999

 

Reformation and the Territorial State in Upper Franconia, 1300-1630  (Rochester, NY:  University of Rochester  

         Press, 2008)

 

Witchcraft, War, and the Counter Reformation:  Bamberg 1590-1632  (2010)

 

The Schmalkaldic War 1540-1555 (edited volume, projected publication 2009)

 

 

 Articles:

 

 “Food and Deception in the Discourse on Heresy and Witchcraft in Bamberg,”

in At the Table:  Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.   Ed. Juliann Vitullo and Timothy J. Tomasik.  ASMAR vol. 18.  Brugge:  Brepols, 2007, 107-122. 

 

“Charles IV.” in Key Figures in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia. Richard.  K. Emmerson, Editor. New York:

            Routledge, 2006.   124-126.

“Wenceslas.”  in Key Figures in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia. Richard K.  Emmerson, Editor. New York:

            Routledge, 2006.   663-665.

 

“Lutheran Resistance to the Imperial Interim in Hesse and Kulmbach,” Lutheran Quarterly 19 (2005): 249-273.

 

“Friedrich Förner, the Catholic Reformation, and Witch Hunting in Bamberg,” Sixteenth Century Journal 36:1 (2005): 115-128.

 

“Germanic Pagan Antiquity in Lutheran Historical Thought,” The Journal of the Historical Society 4:3 (2004):  351-374.

 

“Anticlericalism in Bamberg on the Eve of the Peasants’ War,” in James Van Horn Melton, ed., Constructing Publics: Cultures of Communication in the Early Modern German Lands.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002, 48-65.

 

“Charles IV” in Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia.  Garland Press, 2000, 108-110.

 

“Hohenzollern”  in Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia.  Garland Press, 2000, 364-366.

 

“Wenceslas”  in Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia.  Garland Press, 2000, 805-807.

 

“Some Territorial Implications of Rural Confraternities in Upper Franconia.” Confraternitas 6:1 (1995), 13-18.

 

 

 

 

Book Reviews:

 

Karl IV.  Kaiser von Gottes Gnaden:  Kunst und Repräsentation des Hauses Luxemburg.  Fajt, Jiři, ed.  Munich:  Hirmer Verlag, 2006. Sixteenth Century Journal (in press)

 

Kirchliche Reformimpulse des 14./15. Jahrhunderts in Ostmitteleuropa.  Eds. Winfried Eberhard und Franz Machilek.  Forschungen und Quellen zur Kirchen- und Kulturgeschichte Ostdeutschlands.  Cologne:  Böhlau Verlag, 2006.  Sixteenth Century Journal (in press)

 

Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany.  Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to his Time.  Gerhild Scholz Williams.  Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.  Sixteenth Century Journal (in press)

 

Communal Christianity:  The Life and Loss of a Peasant Vision in Early Modern Germany.  David Mayes.  Leiden:       Brill, 2004.  Sixteenth Century Journal 38/1(2007):  168-170.

 

Kommissare und Korrespondenzen.  Politische Kommunikation im Alten Reich (1552-1558).  Christine Pflüger.  Cologne:             Böhlau Verlag, 2005.  Sixteenth Century Journal 38/2 (2007):  482-483.

 

Reformationsversuch in Kurköln (1542-1548).  Stephan Laux.  Münster:  Aschendorff, 2001. Sixteenth Century Journal (in press)

 

Buona Amicitia?  Die Römisch-Savoyischen Beziehungen Unter Paul V. (1605-1621).Tobias Mörschel.  Munich: Verlag Philip von Zabern, 2002.  Sixteenth Century Journal  35/4 (2004):  956-957.

 

Im Auftrag des Kaisers.  Die kaiserlichen Kommissionen des Reichshofrats und die Regelung von Konflikten im Alten Reich (1637-1657).  Eva Ortlieb.  Quellen und Forschungen zur Höchsten Gerichtsbarkeit im Alten Reich. vol. 38.  Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2001.  Sixteenth Century Journal 35/1 (2004):  195-196

 

Das Strafgericht Gottes: Kriegserfahrungen und Religion im Heiligen Römischen Reich Deutscher Nation im Zeitalter des Dreissigjährigen Krieges.  Eds. Matthias Asche and Anton Schindling.  Münster:   Aschendorff, 2001.  Sixteenth Century Journal 33/4 (2002): 1074-1075.

 

Die Vermittlung einer neuen Welt.  Amerika im Nachrichtennetz des habsburgischen Imperiums 1493-1598.  Renate Pieper.  Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 2000.  Sixteenth Century Journal, 32/3 (2001): 928-930.

 

Augsburger Eliten des 16. Jahrhunderts: Prosopographie wirtschaftlischer und politischer Führungsgruppen 1500-1620.  Ed. Wolfgang Reinhard.  Berlin: Akadamie Verlag, 1996.  Sixteenth Century Journal, 28/3 (1997): 835-837.

 

Augsburger Handelshäuser im Wandel des historischen Urteils. Ed. Johannes Burckhardt.  Colloquia Augustana, Bd. 3. Berlin: Akadamie Verlag, 1996.  Sixteenth Century Journal, 28/1 (1997): 177-179.

 

 

Conference Papers

 

 

“From Thomas Müntzer to Christian Rosenkreutz:  Sedition, Heresy and the Occult in Counter-Reformation             Historiography,” Presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October             26, 2007.

 

“Preaching the Gospel in Marktschorgast:  Thoughts on the Origins of the Reformation,” Presented at the     Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, October 28, 2006.

 

“Liberal Education and Civic Education in Medieval and Reformation Germany,” Presented at Conference

on Politics, Culture, and Constitutional Republicanism, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA, March 2, 2006.

 

“The Urbanization of the Landscape and the ‘Poor Folk’ in Late Medieval Germany,” Presented at the

            Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe AZ, February 17, 2006.

 

 “Tolkien’s Nordic Muse:  Reflections on Language, Myth, and History in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien,”

            Presented at the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Vancouver, BC, April 2005.

 

“Images of Food and Deception in the Discourse on Heresy and Witchcraft in Bamberg, 1560 – 1630”

            Presented at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, AZ,

February 19, 2005.

 

“The Theological Foundations of the Territorial Church and Resistance Theory in Hohenzollern Franconia,”

            Presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 30, 2004.

 

“Poetic to the Core:  Medieval Historiography in the 21^st Century Classroom,” Presented at the Historical

            Society Conference, Boothbay Harbor, ME, June 5, 2004

 

“Rule by Exception: Clergy, Community, and Confession in Late Sixteenth-Century Franconia,” Presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2, 2003.

 

“The Political Theology of Johann Rürer of Ansbach,”  Presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 31, 2003.

 

“Medieval Historiography and the Post-Modern Classroom,” Presented at the Association for Core Texts Conference, Atlanta, GA, April, 2003.

 

“Johannes Sleidan, Charles V, and the Schmalkaldic League: The Two Orations of 1540,”  Presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, TX, October 25, 2002.

 

“Witch Hunting and Hunting for Witches: Problems of qualitative and quantitative methods in the study of early modern witchcraft,” Presented at the Social Science History Association meeting in Chicago, IL, November 16, 2001.

 

“Lutheran Clergy and Resistance to the Interim in Hesse and Brandenburg-Kulmbach,” Presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver, CO, October 28, 2001.

 

“Witchhunts, Rebellion, and the Common Man in Franconia,” Presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, OH, November 9, 2000.

 

“The Death of a Pastor’s Wife: The Execution of Apollonia Crato, 1602,”  Presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, October 24, 1998.

 

“Courtesans and Prebend-Eaters, Idolaters and Thieves: Anti-clerical songs and sermons in Bamberg on the eve of the Peasants’ War,” Presented at the Frühe Neuzeit Interdiziplinär conference Constructing Publics, Duke University, Durham NC, April 17, 1998.

 

“Germanic Pagan Antiquity in Lutheran Historiography,” Presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 26, 1997.

 

“Community and Territory in Germany, 1350-1450,” Presented to the James A. Vann III Seminar, Emory University, April, 1997.

 

“Constructing the Frontier in Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Germany,” Presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO, October 24, 1996.

 

“Civic Religion and Village Humanism, or, The Reformation comes to Gefrees,” Presented at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, AZ, February 16, 1996.

 

“The Burden of History in the Counter-Reformation,” Presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Francisco, CA, October 27, 1995.

 

“Dass ist der Christlichen lehr gemas: The Communal Reformation in Selb, according to the Annotationes of Paul Reinel (1612),” Presented at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, AZ, February 16, 1995.

 

“The Perils of the Job Market in Sixteenth-Century Franconia,” Presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, October 27, 1994.

 

“Corpora Christianorum in Bamberg during the Peasants’ War of 1525,” Presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO, December 9, 1993.

 

“Orthodoxy and Order in Late Medieval and Counter-Reformation Bamberg,” Presented to the James A. Vann III Seminar, Emory University, April 18, 1993.

 

“The West and the Modern World: an experimental core course,” Presented at the annual meeting of the Georgia Association of Historians, April 2, 1993.

 

 

Conference Sessions Chaired and Comments

 

Chair and Comment, “Ritual, Identity, and Liturgy in the European Reformation,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 27, 2007.

 

Chair, “Revisiting the Schmalkaldic War,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta GA, Oct. 21, 2005

 

Chair, “Graduate Students and Recent Ph.D.’s”  Pietism in Two Worlds.  Transmissions of Dissent in

Germany and North America, 1680-1820, Atlanta, GA,  March 6, 2005.

 

Comment, panel on Nietzsche at conference on “Democracy and its Friendly Critics,” Berry College,

            Rome, GA, November 21, 2002

 

Chair, “Ecclesiology, Sainthood, and History in the Catholic Reformation,” Sixteenth Century Studies

 Conference, Toronto, CA, Oct. 29, 19