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John Jeffries Martin

Professor of History
History
Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
243C Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Between Rulers and Subjects: Torture and the Politics of the Body in Early Modern Venice · December 6, 2013 Lecture National Humanities Center, Durham, NC
Masculinity in Montaigne · November 5, 2013 Lecture University of Connecticut, Storrs
Europe's First Generation · May 15, 2013 Lecture European University Institute, Florence
Rewriting the Early Modern: Religions and States in Europe from the Renaissance to Napoleon · February 13, 2013 Lecture Center for European Studies, Duke University
Faith and Power in the Early Modern Mediterranean · June 22, 2012 Lecture University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Program in the Humanities
Torture and the Two Bodies of Early Modern Jurisprudence · April 6, 2012 Lecture Duke University
Torture, Confession, and Proof in Early Modern Europe · March 19, 2012 Lecture Law & History Society, Duke Law School
Confessions of Montaigne · November 12, 2011 Lecture University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Montaigne and the Idea of the Self: A Historian's Perspective · February 17, 2011 Lecture University of Toronto
Marranos and Nicodemites in Sixteenth-Century Venice · February 15, 2011 Lecture
Montaigne on Marriage, Sex, and Penitence · November 15, 2010 Lecture Brown University
Writing Early Modern Europe · November 5, 2010 Lecture
La notion de l'individu dans la Renaissance · May 20, 2010 Lecture
L'histoire de sincérité · May 17, 2010 Lecture Sorbonne, Paris
Marranos and Nicodemites in Sixteenth-Century Venice · April 8, 2010 Lecture Venice
Identity and Ritual in Early Modern Torture · September 25, 2009 Lecture Testimoni e testimonianze del passato, Capodistria, Slovenia
Commentator, Problematic Passions: Case Studies in the History of Emotion in Medieval and Early Modern Europe · January 3, 2009 Lecture American Historical Association, New York, New York
Chair, panel "The Medieval Mediterranean and Beyond," Global Encounters: Lecgacies of Exchange and Conflict," Chapel Hill, NC. · November 15, 2008 Lecture
Breaking the Body: Suffering, Exorcism, and Torture in the Renaissance · March 8, 2008 Lecture Columbia University
Intensity in the College Classroom · February 8, 2008 Lecture San Antonio, Texas

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Unknown - Center for the Humanities and Human Values, UNC · July 23, 2010 - July 24, 2010 Other Service to the Community ; Seminar on the Renaissance, with attention to the history of the book and the voyages of discovery

Service to the Profession


Reviewer, Proposals for the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton · February 2010 Other
Nelson Prize Committee : Renaissance Society of America · November 1, 2009 - December 31, 2009 Other
Editorial Board · September 2009 Other Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies