David Trim

David Trim (2012)

David JB Trim (born October 13, 1969 in Bombay , India ) is a British historian who specializes in culturalist military history in Europe, particularly the early modern period , and the history of religion . He was a university lecturer and is currently the archivist for the World Headquarters of Seventh-day Adventists in the United States.

Life

David Trim was born in Bombay to Adventist missionaries and spent most of his childhood and school years in Australia. He studied in England at Newbold College (privately owned by the Adventist Church) and wrote his dissertation at King's College London , where he received his Ph.D. got in history. His dissertation dealt with the interventions of the English military in continental wars in the 16th and 17th centuries ( Fighting "Jacob's Wars". The Employment of English and Welsh Mercenaries in the European Wars of Religion: France and the Netherlands 1562–1610 ).

From 1999 to 2007 Trim taught history, hermeneutics and missiology at Newbold College, England, and was a visiting fellow at various Anglo-American universities and institutions such as the University of Reading , the University of California, Berkeley , the Huntington Library and the Folger Shakespeare Library . In 2008 and 2009 Trim was visiting professor of history ( Walter Utt Chair ) at Pacific Union College in Napa Valley, California. Since then, David Trim has headed the Archives and Statistics Department at the Seventh-day Adventist World Headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland.

David Trim has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 2003 . He is co-editor of the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research and, along with Frank Tallett, is founder and co-editor of the book series Warfare, Society and Culture at Pickering & Chatto.

Trim reports on his research motivation that he has always considered the influence of religion on wars to be important and underestimated in contemporary Western science; He does not consider the common explanation that religious patterns of legitimation only served as a disguising surface for power-political or economic interests to be sufficient. That is why Trim was particularly concerned with the European Calvinists around 1600, who, in his opinion, were the reason for many wars of the time, because they did not submit to the ruling order. Trim concludes from these results the threat posed by Islamist terrorism today and calls for the jihadists not to be declared fanatical or insane, but rather to understand their motivations and thereby take them seriously.

He is married to an American from California.

Works (selection)

David Trim has neither published his dissertation nor other monographs, but published the results of his research in nine (co-) edited anthologies and over forty articles (as of the end of 2012). Trim also writes for Adventist magazines.

• The Context of War and Violence in Sixteenth-Century English Society. (PDF; 1.5 MB) In: Journal of Early Modern History 3 (1999), No. 3, pp. 233–255 (full-text digitized version).
• (Ed.) The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of Military Professionalism. Brill, Leiden et al. 2003 (History of Warfare, Vol. 11), ISBN 90-04-12095-5 .
• (Ed. Together with Peter J. Balderstone) Cross, Crown & Community. Religion, Government and Culture in Early Modern England 1400–1800. Lang, Oxford et al. 2004, ISBN 3-03910-016-5 , ISBN 0-8204-6285-3 (preview on Google Books).
• (Ed. Together with Richard Bonney) Persecution and Pluralism. Calvinists and Religious Minorities in Early Modern Europe 1550–1700. Lang, Bern 2006 (Studies in the History of Religious and Political Pluralism, Vol. 2), ISBN 3-03910-570-1 .
• (Ed. Together with Mark Charles Fissel) Amphibious Warfare 1000–1700. Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion. Brill, Leiden et al. 2006 (History of Warfare, Vol. 34), ISBN 90-04-13244-9 .
• (Ed. Together with Richard Bonney) The Development of Pluralism in Modern Britain and France. Lang, Bern 2007 (Studies in the History of Religious and Political Pluralism, Vol. 1), ISBN 978-3-03910-571-7 .
• (Ed. Together with Daniel Heinz) Parochialism, Pluralism, and Contextualization. Challenges to Adventist Mission in Europe (19th – 21st Centuries). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2010 (Adventistica, Vol. 9), ISBN 978-3-631-59875-7 .
• (Ed. Together with Frank Tallett) European Warfare. 1350-1750. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-88628-4 (preview on Google Books).
• (Ed. Together with Brendan Simms) Humanitarian Intervention. A history. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011, ISBN 978-0-521-19027-5 .
• Humanitarian Intervention. In: Hew Strachan, Sibylle Scheipers (Ed.): The Changing Character of War. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-959673-7 , pp. 151-166 (preview on Google Books).
• (Ed.) The Huguenots. History and Memory in Transnational Context. Essays in Honor and Memory of Walter C. Utt. Brill, Leiden et al. 2011 (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, Vol. 156), ISBN 978-90-04-20775-2 (preview on Google Books).

Web links

• Rachel Davies: Meeting the Team: David Trim. In: Spectrum Magazine (website), January 19, 2010.
• Mark A. Kellner, Elizabeth Lechleitner: At Battle Creek, Afternoon Presentations Highlight Lessons from History. (Presentation report.) In: Adventist News Network (online edition), April 14, 2013.

supporting documents

1. ↑ ^{a b c} David Trim. In: Revisiting Postmodernism (Adventist Mission Blog) November 25, 2012.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Lecture on the comparison between militant Calvinism of the early modern era and extreme Islamism of the present ( Flyer  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice . ; PDF; 105 kB).  
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Rachel Davies: Meeting the Team: David Trim. In: Spectrum Magazine (website), January 19, 2010.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Brief introduction in: Frank Tallett, David JB Trim (Ed.): European Warfare, 1350–1750. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010, p. 15.
5. ^ Walter C. Utt Endowed Chair. In: Pacific Union College (website).
6. ↑ Brief introduction in: The Huguenots. History and Memory in Transnational Context. Essays in Honor and Memory of Walter C. Utt. Brill, Leiden et al. 2011, p. 12.
7. ^ General Conference. In: AdventistYearbook.org .
8. ↑ Entry ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 229 kB) in the list (letter T, p. 2) on the company's website. 
9. ↑ Presentation ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the company of the same name. 
10. ↑ Presentation ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the publisher's website. 
11. ↑ His dissertation is available as a PDF document on the King's College website.