Craig Harline Explained
| Craig E. Harline |
| Occupation: | Historian |
| Nationality: | American |
| Education: | Ph.D. in European history |
| Alma Mater: | Rutgers University |
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| Subject: | Early Modern Europe, religion |
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Craig Edward Harline is a professor of history at Brigham Young University (BYU) and an author of several books. His research has focused on lived religion during the Reformation.
Biography
Harline was raised in a LDS family with seven siblings in Fresno, California. He served as a missionary in Belgium in the 1970s, where he developed his interests in European history.
Harline earned a B.A. from Brigham Young University in 1980; a M.A. (1984) and Ph.D. (1986) from Rutgers University. He held teaching positions at Rutgers and the University of Idaho, before he began at BYU in 1992.[1]
In 2017 Harline was appointed to De Lamar Jensen Professorship of Early Modern History, the first endowed named chair to be established in the BYU history department.[2]
Writings
- Pamphlets, Printing, and Political Culture in the Early Dutch Republic (Dordrecht; Boston: M. Nijhoff, 1987,)
- Rhyme and Reason of Politics in Early Modern Europe: Collected Essays of Herbert H. Rowen (Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992,)
- The Burdens of Sister Margaret: Inside a Seventeenth-Century Convent (New York: Doubleday, 1994; abridged paperback, Yale University Press, Nota Bene Series, 2000,)
- A Bishop's Tale: Mathias Hovius Among his Flock in Seventeenth-Century Flanders, with Eddy Put (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000; paperback, 2002,)
- Miracles at the Jesus Oak: Histories of the Supernatural in Reformation Europe (New York: Doubleday, 2003; paperback, Yale University Press, 2011,)
- Sunday: A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl (New York: Doubleday, 2007; paperback, 2011,)
- Conversions: Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011,)
- Way Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled But Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2014,).
- Jacobs Vlucht: een familiesaga van de Gouden Eeuw (in Dutch, [''Jacob's Flight: A Family Saga of the Golden Age'']; Nijmegen, the Netherlands: Vantilt, 2016,)
- A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation (Oxford University Press, 3 October 2017,)
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Craig Harline, Professor. Brigham Young University. 20 March 2017.
- https://fhssbyu.com/2017/09/29/byu-history-professor-awarded-departments-first-endowed-professorship/ article on establishment of the De Lamar Jensen chair
