Alma Mater: | |
Workplaces: | University of Liverpool |
Thesis Title: | Scholasticism and Humanism in the Political Thought of Juan de Mariana, SJ : (1535-1624) |
Thesis Year: | 2000 |
Thesis Url: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365500 |
Notable Works: | Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought (2007) |
Harald Ernst Braun[1] is a German historian of late medieval and early modern political culture emphasizing on the integration of political and intellectual history, theological-political discourse, Iberian empires and the Catholic world. He is a Reader in European History (1300-1700) at the University of Liverpool.One of his major contributions has focused on the political thought of Spanish historian Juan de Mariana.[2]
Braun got an MA in History, Politics, and German Language and Literature at Heidelberg University, German. He received his D.Phil. on Early Modern Catholic Political Thought at the University of Oxford. He was a temporary Lecture at King's College London (KCL) and the London School of Economics (LSE) until he joined the Department of History at Liverpool in 2004. In 2017, Braun was a Visiting Professor at École Normale Superieur de Lyon.[3]
Braun is the founding editor of Routledge series of Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts: Connexions. He also is the founding editor of Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge, a book series of the Society for Renaissance Studies.[4]