Graduate Student, History
Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
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Edward Muir
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About
I am a Ph.D. student working on the history of religion in early modern Italy. I'm interested in how the Catholic church functioned internally during this period, particularly how different groups of clerics struggled with the issue of reform. My dissertation centers around the College of Cardinals in the second half of the sixteenth century (c. 1571-1605), investigating how they functioned as links between the center of papal government in Rome and the universal church abroad. The dissertation looks at the cardinals' role in several different types of international incidents, from the efforts to convert Henri IV of France to implementing Tridentine reform in Poland and the Empire. I'm particularly interested in the relationship between ecclesiology and political theory, above all how secular models of government were adopted and altered by clerics.
My master's thesis addressed the schismatic Council of Pisa (1511-12) and argued that the College of Cardinals, both at Pisa and at Lateran V, sought to assert their unique, collegial prerogatives in reforming the church. Other research projects have focused on the Consilium de emendanda ecclesia (1539), and the competing histories written by Paolo Sarpi and Cesare Baronio (the Istoria del Concilio Tridentino and Annales ecclesiastici, respectively).
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