Early Modern European History in the Department of History

• Dr Nicholas Eckstein
  Social and cultural history of Late-Medieval, Renaissance and Early-Modern Italy, especially Florence. Neighbourhood and social interaction; popular religion and lay devotion; daily life; urban culture; the social context of art.
• Dr Andrew Fitzmaurice
  Early Modern British, European and Atlantic history, intellectual history, the history of political thought, and the history of colonisation.
• Dr Jonathan Walker
  Early modern Venice, spies, crime, historical fiction, photography and history, modernization

• Dr Saliha Belmessous (ARC Postdoctoral Fellow)
• Dr Kate Fullagar (University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellow)
• Dr Michael McDonnell
• Dr Cindy McCreery

Jonathan Walker, Pistols! Treason! Murder! The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy (Melbourne University Press, 2007)

Andrew Fitzmaurice, Humanism and America: An intellectual history of English colonisation, 1500-1625. (Ideas in Context; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003).

• Andrew Fitzmaurice, ‘The Commercial Ideology of Colonisation in Jacobean England: Robert Johnson, Giovanni Botero and the Pursuit of Greatness’, William and Mary Quarterly, October 2007
• Nicholas Eckstein, "The Widows' Might. Women's Identity and Devotion in the Brancacci Chapel," Oxford Art Journal, 28, 1 (2005): 99-118.

• HSTY1034 Renaissance and Reformation

• HSTY2045 Italy and the Wider World
• HSTY2047 Renaissance Italy
• HSTY2050 European Conquests 1500-1700
• HSTY2653 Reformation and Society
• HSTY2660 Violence in Italy

• HSTY6985 Perspectives on the Italian Renaissance

• Beyond the Neighbourhood: The Urban Histories of Sociability and Community in Renaissance Florence, 1400-1500.
  (Dr Nicholas Eckstein)
• The Anatomy and Physiology of Renaissance Florence: the Dynamics of Social Change in the Fifteenth Century
  (Dr Nicholas Eckstein)
• The Price of Freedom
  (Dr Andrew Fitzmaurice)
• State formation and European expansion
  (Dr Andrew Fitzmaurice)
• A history of terra nullius
  (Dr Andrew Fitzmaurice)

• Catherine England, The use of children in Renaissance Florence (2006)
• Jean Riley, Censorship of the print trade in Tudor England (2004)

• Kit Candlin
  Identity and belonging in the British Empire 1780-1850
• Kate Colleran
  Sound and Culture in the Renaissance: an 'Acoustemology' of Florentine and Sienese Society
• Nicholas Gordon
  The Rhetoric and Literary Construction of Urban Space in Late-Medieval Florence
• Patricia Leehy
  Expatriate and Outsider Communities in Renaissance and Early-Modern Florence

• Nick Eckstein was awarded an Australian Research Council Grant to commence in 2008 for the project, "The Anatomy and Physiology of Renaissance Florence: the Dynamics of Social Change in the Fifteenth Century"

2005

• Professor Nicholas Terpstra (University of Toronto)
  Presenting a paper in the Department research seminar, lecturing in HSTY 2047 The Italian Renaissance, presenting a postgraduate seminar on archival research, and delivering the keynote address at the conference "Sociability and its Discontents"