Matthew Lundin
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Historian of Early Modern Europe
Lilly Fellow and Lecturer in History and the Humanities
| Office | Linwood 113 |
| Office Hours | M/W 1:00–3:00 p.m. |
| Phone | 219-464-6494 |
| Matthew.Lundin@valpo.edu |
Lilly Fellows Program
1401 Linwood Avenue
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, Indiana 46383
Current Teaching
Spring 2009
- Europe in the Age of Reformation (HIST312X/THEO320AX)
- Course home page
- Syllabus (pdf)
- Writing the Self in Early Modern Europe
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- Syllabus (pdf)
Research
Book Project
Paper Memory: A Sixteenth-Century Townsman Writes His World
- Based on the private writings of Cologne lawyer Hermann Weinsberg (1518–1597).
- A microhistorical study of one man's struggle to make sense of a changing world.
Research Interests
- The Protestant Reformation
- Memory in Early Modern Europe
- Historical Consciousness in Early Modern Europe
- Print Culture
- Private Writing (Autobiographies and Diaries)
- The Early Modern City
About me
I am a cultural historian of Early Modern Europe (1500–1800). I view research on the early modern period as an archaeological excavation of the foundations of the world we live in today. To read Luther, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Descartes, and Pascal is to recover the origins of some of our most basic assumptions.
I am particularly interested in the effects that printing had on individual and collective memory during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing on a variety of resources—social and cultural history, cultural anthropology, literature, and philosophy—I seek to understand the ways in which early modern individuals and communities refashioned the cultural inheritances of the Middle Ages and struggled to make sense of a growing mass of information.
Date: 2009-05-19 08:47:37 CDT
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