Judith Cora Brown

Judith Cora Brown (* 1946 in Buenos Aires ) is an American historian and author.

Live and act

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina , in 1946 , she came to the USA at an early age , where she completed her master's degree in history at the University of California, Berkeley , California in 1971 . The Ph.D. graduated from Johns Hopkins University six years later . After an assistant professorship at the University of Maryland near Baltimore , she moved to Stanford University . There she received a management position at the Center for Research on Women and at the same time an associate professorship at the Institute of History. After five years at Rice University , Brown moved to Wesleyan University in 2000 , where she retired in 2011.

From 1975 to 1976 Judith Cora Brown was co-editor of the Journal of Economic History . She researched higher education , early modern times in Europe , especially the renaissance in early Italy and the history of women , gender and sexuality.

Shameful passions

One of her widely acclaimed books is Shameful Passions: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Italy during the 1986 Renaissance . The book has been translated into twelve languages, including German. In addition to the great success that the book found in public, it sparked some discussions in historical circles.

Mary R. O'Neil , an American historian from the University of Washington , criticizes the labeling as a “lesbian nun” and points out that other categories of thought prevailed at the time, such as the term “possessed nun”, “ deceitful mystic ”or“ hypocritical saint ”. Even Otto Ulbricht , a German historian and representatives of micro-history , describes this work as "narrative illustration historical life" and has the name of this book as a micro-history back because the necessary for this critical work lacked the sources.

In contrast, Jacqueline Murray , an American historian, calls the work a “pioneer in the rediscovery of the history of women and sexuality” and compares it to well-known micro-historical studies such as The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis or The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg .

Honors

In 1973 Judith Cora Brown won the Butler Prize at Johns Hopkins University . In 1981 she received the American Philosophical Society Award . In 1986 she was a Guggenheim Fellow and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in History that same year . From 1991 to 1992 she was a member of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and was elected President of the Society for Historical Studies of Italy from 2005 to 2007.

Publications

• with Giovanna Benadusi: Medici Women: The Making of a Dynasty in Grand Ducal Tuscany. Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Press, Toronto: 2015, ISBN 978-0-7727-2180-8 , ISBN 0-7727-2180-7 , ISBN 978-0-7727-2179-2 .
• with Robert C. Davis: Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy. Longman Publishers, London: 1998, ISBN 0-582-29326-X , ISBN 0-582-29325-1 .
• Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Now in Renaissance Italy. Oxford University Press, New York: 1986, ISBN 0-19-503675-1 .
• In the Shadow of Florence: Provincial Society in Renaissance Pescia. Oxford University Press, New York: 1982, ISBN 0-19-502993-3 .

Web links

• Judith C. Brown's profile on the university website (as of June 30, 2015).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biob5/brown07.html (July 3, 2019).
2. ↑ Vita, as of 2015: http://jbrown.faculty.wesleyan.edu/files/2011/11/Brown-2015-Vita.doc (03.07.2019).
3. ^ Profile Judith Brown, Wesleyan University: https://jbrown.faculty.wesleyan.edu/ (July 3, 2019).
4. ↑ Judith C. Brown: Shameful Passions: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Italy during the Renaissance. (Translated from the English by Barbara Rojahn-Deyk), Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 978-3-15-010351-7 .
5. ↑ Vita, as of 2015: http://jbrown.faculty.wesleyan.edu/files/2011/11/Brown-2015-Vita.doc (03.07.2019).
6. ^ Mary R. O'Neil: Review of Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Brown, Judith C. In: Sixteenth Century Journal , Volume 17, No. 3, 1986, p. 392, DOI: 10.2307 / 2540347 .
7. ↑ Otto Ulbricht: Micro history: people and conflicts in the early modern times . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt and New York: 2009, page 22, ISBN 978-3-593-38909-7 .
8. ↑ Jacqueline Murray: Review of Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Brown, Judith C. In: Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance Et Réforme, Volume 12, No. 2, 1988, p. 132.
9. ↑ Vita, as of 2015: http://jbrown.faculty.wesleyan.edu/files/2011/11/Brown-2015-Vita.doc (03.07.2019).