Edward Wallace Muir

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Edward Wallace Muir, Jr. (born February 12, 1946 ) is an American historian. He teaches history and Italian at Northwestern University in Illinois . He is considered a pioneer in historical research on rituals and feuds and is known for his use of anthropological and micro- historical methods in historical research . His research focuses on the Italy of the Renaissance .

Life

Muir studied history at the University of Utah (BA magna cum laude 1969) . In 1967 he completed a semester abroad in Florence as part of a program at Syracuse University . He then studied at Rutgers University , where he obtained his MA in modern European history in 1970 and his Ph.D in modern European history in 1975. He taught first as Assistant Professor of History at Stockton State College in New Jersey from 1973 to 1977 and then from 1977 to 1981 as Assistant Professor of History at Syracuse University, and from 1981 to 1986 as Associate Professor of History. From 1986 to 1992 he worked as an associate professor at Louisiana State University and then until 1993 as a full professor of history there. At the same time he worked in 1990 and from 1993 to 1994 as visiting professor for the Renaissance at Yale University . Since 1993 Muir has worked as a professor of history at Northwestern University , since 1997 also as Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor and from 2003 also as Professor of Italian Studies . Finally, since 2006 he has been working there as Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence .

He has held several grants, including from the Guggenheim Foundation , Harvard University , the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton , the National Humanities Center, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.

Scientific work

Edward Wallace Muir's work focuses on the social and cultural history of Italy, particularly during the Renaissance . He himself defines violence and rituals as specific research interests . He has specialized in analyzing feuds and rituals of the Italian Renaissance.

From 1990 to 1993, together with Guido Ruggiero , he edited three anthologies with selected articles in the Quaderni Storici magazine on topics of microhistory . With this, Muir and Ruggiero want to make Italian micro-history (microstoria) better known in the scientific community of North America.

reception

István Szijarto puts Muir himself close to the Italian Microstoria. In particular, his book Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance is close to the (predominantly) socio-historical style of the original microhistorians in Italy, but also takes anthropological theories into account .

Francesca Trivellato said that no other North American historian has tried micro-historiography like Muir. He not only translated microhistorical studies from Italian into English, but also used them profitably.

Works

  • Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice (Princeton University Press, 1981) ISBN 978-0691102009 (Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History)
  • Italian translation: Il rituale civico a Venezia nel Rinascimento (Rome: Il Veltro Editrice, 1984). ISBN 9788885015227
  • The Leopold von Ranke Manuscript Collection of Syracuse University: The Complete Catalog (Syracuse University Press, 1983). ISBN 9780815622949
  • Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective . Co-edited with Guido Ruggiero. Selections from Quaderni Storici , no. 1. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0801840722
  • Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe . Co-edited with Guido Ruggiero. Selections from Quaderni Storici , no. 2. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0801841835
  • Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance . Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 390pp. (Winner of the Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History) ISBN 978-0801858499
  • Italian translation: Il sangue s'infuria e ribolle: La vendetta nell'Italia del Rinascimento . Verona: Cierre edizioni, 2010. ISBN 978-8883145803
  • History from Crime . Co-edited with Guido Ruggiero. Selections from Quaderni Storici , no. 3. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, 236pp. ISBN 9780801847332
  • Ritual in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1997, 2nd edition, 2005). ISBN 978-0521602402
  • Italian translation: Riti e rituali nell'Europa moderna . Milan, La Nuova Italia, 2000. ISBN 978-8822142498
  • Spanish translation: Fiesta y rito en la Europa moderna . Madrid, Editorial Complutense, 2001. ISBN 9788474915976
  • Co-author with Brian Levack, Michael Maas, and Meredith Veldman, The West: Encounters and Transformations . New York: Addison Wesley Longman (new Prentice Hall), 2004. Concise edition, 2006. 2nd full edition, 2007. 3rd full edition, 2010. ISBN 978-0134237466
  • The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera . Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-674-04126-4
  • Italian translation: Guerre culturali: Libertinismo e religione alla fine del Rinascimento . Bari: Laterza, 2008. ISBN 9788842083078

Awards and honors

  • Herbert Baxter Adams American Historical Association Award for Best First Book on the History of Europe by an American Citizen, 1982.
  • Howard R. Marraro Award in Italian History from the American Catholic Historical Association for Best Book on Italian History, 1982.
  • Harold J. Grimm Memorial Prize of the Center for Reformation Research for the best article on the history of the Reformation , 1989.
  • Howard R. Marraro Award in Italian History from the American Historical Association for the best book on Italian history, 1993.
  • Excellence in Teaching Award of the Northwestern University Alumni Association ., 1999
  • E. Leroy Hall Award for Excellence in Teaching from Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, 2000–2001.
  • Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University, 2006–2009.
  • Distinguished Achievement Award, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2010.
  • Academia Europaea , elected member, 2011.
  • Award for Special Career Achievement from the Society for Italian Historical Studies , 2014.
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences , elected member, 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wayback Machine. September 24, 2015, accessed August 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Wayback Machine. September 24, 2015, accessed August 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Wayback Machine. September 24, 2015, accessed August 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Wayback Machine. September 24, 2015, accessed August 5, 2019 .
  5. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Edward Muir Jr. Retrieved August 5, 2019 (American English).
  6. ↑ Wayback Machine. September 24, 2015, accessed August 5, 2019 .
  7. ^ Edward Muir: Department of History - Northwestern University. Retrieved August 5, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Wayback Machine. September 24, 2015, accessed August 5, 2019 .
  9. ^ Edward Muir: Department of History - Northwestern University. Retrieved August 5, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Szijártó, István; Magnússon, Sigurður Gylfi: What is microhistory? Theory and Practice . Routledge, London / New York 2013, pp. 58 .
  11. ^ Trivellato, Francesca: Is there a future for italian microhistory in the age of global history? In: California Italian Studies . tape 2 , no. 1 . Yale University Press, 2011, pp. 8 .
personal data
SURNAME Muir, Edward Wallace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muir, Edward Wallace Junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1946