PUBLICATIONS

Book Manuscript in Preparation (2 volumes): 

                Power and the Sacred in Renaissance Florence:  Religion, Politics, and the Church, 1375-1460.  I:  Religion and the Republic in the Age of Schism and Territorial Expansion, 1375-1427 (5 chapters, 4 appendices.).  II: Church Reform and the Politics of Legitimacy, 1415-1460 (7 chapters).

Book Translation:

                Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani.  The Pope's Body.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. xxii +  373.  (Il corpo del papa.  Turin:  Einaudi, 1994, pp. xxii + 348).

 
Articles:

                "Conciliarism at the Local Level:  Florence's Clerical Corporation in the Early Fifteenth Century."  Gerald R. Christianson, Thomas M. Izbicki, and Christopher Bellito, eds.  Reform and Obedience:  The Authority of Church, Council and Pope from the Great Schism to the Council of Trent.  Washington, DC:  Catholic University Press, forthcoming (32-page typescript).

                "Religion and the Church."  John M. Najemy, ed.  Short Oxford History of Italy:  Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, 1300-1550.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 59-81, 271-272.

                "The War of the Eight Saints in Florentine Memory and Oblivion."  William J. Connell, ed.  Society and the Individual in Renaissance Florence.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2002, pp. 173-214.

                "La chiesa e lo stato territoriale fiorentino (1375-1460)."  Andrea Zorzi and William J. Connell, eds.  Lo stato territoriale fiorentino (secoli XIV-XV).  Ricerche, linguaggi, confronti.  Pisa:  Pacini Editore, 2002, pp. 135-159.

                "The Cathedral, the Florentine Church, and Ecclesiastical Government in the Early Quattrocento."  Timothy Verdon and Annalisa Innocenti, eds.  Atti del VII centenario del Duomo di Firenze:  La cattedrale e la città:  Saggi sul Duomo di Firenze.  Florence:  Edifir, 2001, I:  55-78.

                "State-Building, Church Reform, and the Politics of Legitimacy in Florence, 1375-1460."  William J. Connell and Andrea Zorzi, eds.  Florentine Tuscany:  Structures and Practices of Power.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 122-143.

                "Out of the Margins:  Religion and the Church in Renaissance Italy."  Renaissance Quarterly 53 (2000) 835-879.

                "Antoninus."  Paul F. Grendler, ed.  Encyclopedia of the Renaissance.  6 vols. New York:  Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999, I:  79-80.

                "An Experiment in Diocesan Self-Government:  The universitas cleri in Early Quattrocento Florence." Giuseppina de Sandre Gasparini, Grado G. Merlo, and Antonio Rigon, eds.  Quaderni di Storia Religiosa 4:  Il prete tra individualità e solidarietà.  Verona:  Cierre Edizioni, 1997, pp.  195-220.

                "Religion, Politics, and the Church in Fifteenth-Century Florence."  Donald Weinstein and Valerie Hotchkiss, eds.  Piety, Prophesy and Politics in Renaissance Florence.  Dallas:  Bridwell Library Publications, 1994, pp. 75-85. 

                "Electoral Politics and the Florentine Clergy:  A Meeting of the Maius Concilium in 1424."  Renaissance Studies 5 (1991) 359-397.

                "Conciliarism, Republicanism and Corporatism:  the 1415-1420 Constitution of the Florentine Clergy."  Renaissance Quarterly 42 (1989) 183-226.  Winner of the Renaissance Society of America's Nelson Prize for the Best Article of 1989.

                "An Episcopal Election in Quattrocento Florence."  James Ross Sweeney and Stanley Chodorow, eds.  Popes, Teachers, and Canon Law in the Middle Ages.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989, pp. 300-325.

                "Florence's universitas cleri in the Early Fifteenth Century." Renaissance Studies 2 (1988) 185-196.

Article translation:

                Laura De Angelis.  "Territorial Offices and Office-Holders."  William J. Connell and Andrea Zorzi, eds.  Florentine Tuscany:  Structures and Practices of Power.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 165-182.

Reviews:

                Kathleen M. Comerford and Hilmar M. Pabel, eds.  Early Modern Catholicism:  Essays in Honor of John W. O'Malley, S.J.  Renaissance Quarterly 52 (2003) 506-509.

                Cynthia L. Polecritti.  Preaching in Renaissance Italy:  Bernardino of Siena and His Audience.  Church History 71 (2002) 408-410.

                Angelo da Vallombrosa, Lettere, ed. Loredana Lunetta.  Speculum 75 (2000) 668.

                Peter Francis Howard, Beyond the Written Word.  Preaching and Theology in the Florence of Archbishop Antoninus.  Renaissance Quarterly 52 (1999) 868-869.

                Diana Webb, Patrons and Defenders.  The Saints in the Italian City-states.  Catholic Historical Review 83 (1997) 809-810.

                Lorenzo Polizzotto, The Elect Nation:  The Savonarolan Movement in Florence 1494-1545.  Church History 66 (1997) 809-810.

                John Henderson, Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence.  Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997) 262-264.

                John Martin, Venice's Hidden Enemies.  Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City.  Renaissance Quarterly 49 (1996) 853-854.

                Daniel E. Bornstein, The Bianchi of 1399.  Popular Devotion in Late Medieval Italy.  Renaissance Quarterly 49 (1996) 854-856.

                George Dameron, Episcopal Power and Florentine Society, 1000-1320.  Renaissance Quarterly 45 (1992) 540-542.

                Daniel R. Lesnick, Preaching in Medieval Florence:  The Social World of Franciscan and Dominican Spirituality.  American Historical Review 96 (1991) 154-155. 

                Roberto Bizzocchi, Chiesa e potere nella Toscana del Quattrocento.  Renaissance Quarterly 42 (1989) 293-297.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES

                Interlocutor:  "Reassessing Past and Contemporary Italy."  Congress on International Educational Exchange, Ferrara, Italy, 6-13 June, 2005.

                Invited Lecture:  "Conciliarism at the Local Level:  Florence's Clerical Corporation in the Early Fifteenth Century."  2004 Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary International Conference on Pre-Reformation Theology, "Reform and Obedience:  The Authority of the Church, Council, and Pope from the Great Schism to the Council of Trent."  GEttysburg, PA, 10 October, 2004.

                Invited Discussant:  Round-table on "The Historical Legacy of Hans Baron."  History Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 24 April, 2004.

                Chair:  "Charity and Power in Renaissance Florence;" "Neglected Works of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini;" "Preaching, Rhetoric, and Art in Renaissance Florence."  Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting, New York, 3-4 April, 2004.

                Invited Lecture:  "Religion and the Church in the Italian Renaissance, 1300-1550."  Edinburgh University, Denys Hay Seminar, 25 November, 2003.

                ____.  Glasgow University, HIstory Department Research Seminar, 26 November, 2003.

                Interlocutor:  Medieval Academy of AMerica ANnual Conference on Centers and REgional Associations (CARA), University of Toronto, 26-28 September, 2003.

                Chair:  "Preaching, Rhetoric and Art in Renaissance Florence."  International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 16 July, 2003.

                Invited Lecture:  "Firenze e la chiesa, 1380-1420."  Third Annual International Summer Seminar "Jacopo da Bologna," Dozza, Italy, 11 July, 2003.

                Chair:  "Issues for Women in the Italian Renaissance."  Thirteenth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, FL 15 March, 2002.

                Conference Organizer:  Mid-Atlantic Renaissance and Reformation Seminar, Annual Meeting.  Hosted at Washington and Lee University, 6-7 April, 2001.  Plenary speaker:  Gene Brucker.  Banquet, six presenters in two sessions, thirty participants.

                Presenter:  "Local Religion and Institutional Religion in the Renaissance."  Conference on "Religion and Transnationalism," Washington and Lee University, 2 April, 2000.

                Chair:  "Italian Studies VIII:  Italian History."  Twelfth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, FL, 11 March, 2000.

                Paper, session organizer:  "Religion, Politics, and Ecclesiastical Institutions," in the session on "Religion and the Church in Renaissance Italy:  Recent Trends."  Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting, Florence, Italy, 23 March, 2000.

                Paper:  "Religion and the Church in Renaissance Italy:  Recent Approaches."  American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, 7 January, 2000.

                Presenter:  "The Future of the Renaissance."  Early Modern Studies Colloquium, Cornell University, 15 September, 1998.

                Presenter:  "The War of the Eight Saints in Florentine Memory and Oblivion."  European History Colloquium, Cornell University, 10 September, 1998.

                Chair:  "Schism in Image and Fact in Early Modern History." Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting, College Park, MD, 26 March, 1998.

                Presenter:  "Power and the Sacred in Renaissance Florence, 1375-1460."  Early Modern Studies Colloquium, Cornell University, 2 March, 1998.

                Invited Lecture:  "The Cathedral, the Florentine Church, and Ecclesiastical Government in the Early Quattrocento."  International Symposium on "La cattedrale e la città.  Settimana di studi interdisciplinari," Florence, Italy, 21 June, 1997.

                Invited Lecture: "The Church and the Florentine Territorial State, 1375-1460."  International Symposium on "Lo stato territoriale fiorentino, secoli XIV-XV."  Centro di Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy, 6-7 June, 1996.

                Presenter:  Workshop on "Gender and Religion."  Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library Symposium, "Teaching Gender in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance."  Newberry Library, 13-18 May, 1996.

                Paper:  "Religion and the Church in Renaissance Italy:  Recent Trends."  Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting, Bloomington, 18 April, 1996.

                Comment:  "Lay Spirituality, Confraternities, and Civic Control in Renaissance Italy."  Sponsor:  Renaissance Society of America.  American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 6 January, 1996.

                Paper, session organizer:  "Church and Religion, State and the Florentine Reggimento during the Schism" in the session on "The Place and Presentation of the Clergy in Fifteenth Century Italy."  Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting, New York, 1 April, 1995.

                Presenter:  "Politics, Religion, and the Church in Renaissance Florence."  Guest seminar, History Department, Northwestern University, 2 March, 1995.

                Paper:  "Politics and Religion in Renaissance Italy:  The Florentine Case."  Guest Lecture, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis University, 22 January, 1995.

                Paper:  "Issues and Problems in the Religious History of Renaissance Italy."  Newberry Library Fellow's Seminar, Chicago, 19 December, 1994.

                Paper:  "Civic Religion, Legitimation Strategies, and the Church."  Plenary Session:  "Florentine and Italian Civic Religion: A Reassessment in Honor of Donald Weinstein."  Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting, Dallas, 8 April, 1994.

                Comment:  "Representations of Religion in Renaissance Italy." Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting, Dallas, 8 April, 1994.

                Comment:  "Religion and Culture in Renaissance Italy."  South-Central Renaissance Conference, San Antonio, 26 March, 1993.

                Comment:  "Politics and Statecraft in Early Modern Europe."  Graduate Student Symposium, University of Texas at Austin, 20 November, 1991. 

                Presenter:  "An Episcopal Election in Quattrocento Florence."  National Humanities Center, Olin Seminar, 26 October, 1987.

                Comment:  "Pirates and Avengers in Renaissance Italy."  Southwestern Social Science Association Conference, Dallas, 20 March, 1987.

                Presenter:  "Episcopal Elections in Fifteenth Century Florence."  Seminar in Early Modern Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 23 April, 1986.

                Paper:  "The History of Florence in History."  Symposium on "The City as Social Crucible," University of Texas at Austin, 9 April, 1986.

                Paper:  "Public Finance and Ecclesiastical Administration in Early Quattrocento Florence." Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 21 March, 1986.

                _____.  New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, FL, 8 March, 1986.

                Paper:  "Conciliarism, Republicanism and Corporatism in the 1415-1420 Constitution of the Florentine Clergy."  American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, New York, 28 December, 1985.

                Comment:  "The Florentine Church."  International Symposium on "Christianity and the Renaissance."  Florence, Italy, Convent of San Marco, 6 June, 1985.

                 Paper:  "The Church in Florence in the Early Fifteenth Century." Invited lecture, Harvard University, Villa I Tatti, Florence, 28 May, 1985.

                 Paper:  "Clerical Corporatism in Early Fifteenth Century Florence." Invited lecture, Johns Hopkins University, Villa Spelman, Florence, 25 March, 1985.

                 Paper, session organizer:  "Archbishop Antoninus:  Church Reform and Church-State Relations in Early Fifteenth Century Florence," in the session on "Bishops, Politics, and Reform in Renaissance Italy."  American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 28 December, 1983.

                 Paper:  "Church and State in Fifteenth Century Florence:  The Conflict over Non-Supportantes."  Northern California Renaissance Association, University of Santa Clara, 14 May, 1983.

                 _____.  International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 6 May, 1983.