Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of Virginia 1981
  • B.A., Duke University 1974
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Associate Chair, Department of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2011
  • Acting Chair, Department of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009
  • Associate Professor with Tenure, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1990 - 2009
  • Interim Chairman, Germanic Languages, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008
  • Assistant Professor, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1983 - 1989
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • NOV 15, 2013

    Durham Herald-Sun

    Duke council talks Kunshan course approval, online education
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  Awards & Honors

  • Fred Schaffer Professor of History. Duke University. 2012
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • History, 17th Century
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  Global Scholarship

  • Research

    • France (Country) 
    • Germany, Federal Republic of (Country) 
    • Hungary (Country) 

  • Teaching

    • Italy (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Enduring Loss in the Early Modern Era awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2007 - 2008
  • Orthodoxies and Diversities in Early Modern German-Speaking Europe awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2005
  • Forensic Medicine, Witchcraft and Poison in 17th Century Germany awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2001
  • (98-0602) Conference on Constructing Publics: Cultures of Communication in the Early Modern German Lands awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1998 - 1999
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Robisheaux, T. L’ultima strega, 2011.
    • Robisheaux, T. The Craft of Microhistory, 2009.
    • Robisheaux, T. Living with Witches: Six Interdisciplinary Essays, 2009.
    • Robisheaux, Thomas. The Last Witch of Langenburg: Murder in a German Villages, 2009.
    • Imhof, Arthur, and Thomas Robisheaux translator. Lost Worlds: How Our European Ancestors Coped with Everyday Life and Why Life is so Hard Today. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 1996.
    • Robisheaux, T. Rural Society and the Search for Order in Early Modern Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

  • Academic Articles

    • Robisheaux, T. “Microhistory and the historical imagination: New frontiers.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-3716554.
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    • Robisheaux, T. “Microhistory today: A roundtable discussion.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 7–52. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-3716566.
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    • Robisheaux, T. “Peasant Society and Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe.” Peasant Studies 1 (1987): 105–18.
    • Thomas Robisheaux, T. “Peasant Unrest and the Moral Economy in the German Southwest, 1560 1620.” Archiv Für Reformationsgeschichte 77 (1987): 174–86.
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    • Barnett-Robisheaux, T. “Peasant Revolts in Germany and Central Europe after the Peasants' War: Comments on the Literature.” Central European History 17, no. 4 (January 1, 1984): 384–403. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000893890001637X.
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    • Robisheaux, T. “Peasants and pastors: Rural youth control and the reformation in hohenlohe, 1540–1680.” Social History 6, no. 3 (January 1, 1981): 281–300. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071028108567506.
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    • Robisheaux, T. “History and Economic Anthropology: The Historians' Search for Economic Man in Africa.” Essays in History 21 (1977): 53–82.

  • Book Sections

    • Robisheaux, T. “The German Witch Trials.” In The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft, edited by Brian Levack. Oxford University Press, 2013.
    • Robisheaux, T. “Penance, Confession and the Self in Early Modern Lutheranism.” In Ideas and Cultural Margins: Essays in Honor of H.C. Erik Midelfort, edited by Marjorie Elisabeth Plummer and Robin B. Barnes, 117–30. Aldershot, 2009.
    • Robisheaux, T. “’The Queen of Evidence:’ The Witchcraft Confession in the Age of Confessionalism.” In Confessionalization in Europe 1500-1700: Essays in Honor and Memory of Bodo Nischan, edited by John Headley and Hans Hillerbrand. Ashgate, 2004.
    • Robisheaux, T. “The German Peasants’ War.” In Europe 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World. New York: Scribner’s, 2004.
    • Robisheaux, T. “Zur Rezeption Benedict Carpzov im 17ten. Jahrhundert.” In Hexenprozesse Und Gerichtspraxis, edited by Franz Irsigler and Gunther Franz, 527–44. Trier, 2001.
    • Robisheaux, T. “Forensic Medicine and Witchcraft in Seventeeth Century Germany.” In Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture, edited by Stuart Clark, 197–215. London: Routledge, 2000.
    • Robisheaux, T. “The Peasantries of Western Germany, 1300-1750.” In The Peasantries of Europe from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries, edited by Tom Scott, 111–42. London: Longman, 1997.
    • Robisheaux, T. “The Nobility in South Germany, 1790-1848.” In Adel Und Staatsverwaltung in Brandenburg Im 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert: Ein Historischer Vergleich, edited by Kurt Adamy, 267–80. Akademie Verlag, 1996.
    • Robisheaux, T. “The World of the Village.” In Handbook of European History 1400-1600: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation, edited by Thomas A. Brady, Heiko A. Oberman, and James D. Tracy, 79–112. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • FOCUS 195FS: Special Topics in Focus 2019
  • HISTORY 190FS: Topics in Focus Program 2019
  • HISTORY 257: Reformation Europe 2019
  • HISTORY 260: Magic, Religion, and Science since 1400 2019
  • HISTORY 394: Research Independent Study 2019
  • HISTORY 520S: Microhistory 2019
  • MEDREN 190FS: Special Topics in Focus 2019
  • MEDREN 281: Reformation Europe 2019
  • MEDREN 287: Magic, Religion, and Science since 1400 2019
  • MEDREN 491: Independent Study: Thesis 2019
  • MEDREN 576S: Microhistory 2019
  • SCISOC 260: Magic, Religion, and Science since 1400 2019
  • HISTORY 792: Reading Topics-Independent Study 2018
  • MEDREN 493: Research Independent Study: Thesis 2018
  • HISTORY 393: Research Independent Study 2017
  • LS 780: Selected Topics 2017
  • MEDREN 291: Independent Study 2017
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • What is Microhistory Now?. Cambridge Festival of Ideas. Cambridge University. October 28, 2016  2016
  • Microhistory and Story. Institute for Historical Research, University of London. October 26, 2016  2016
  • Microhistory and Narrative Analysis. Reykyavík Microhistory Workshop. Þjóðminjasafn Íslands (National Museum of Iceland). June 27, 2016 - June 30, 2016  2016
  • Johann Weyer and the Witch's Feelings. Witchcraft and the Emotions. Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung. June 23, 2016 - June 24, 2016  2016
  • Midwives, Naturalists & Doctors: New Visions of Medicine & Science. Heralding the Way to a New World: Exploring Women in Science and Medicine through the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection. Rubenstein Library. February 9, 2016  2016
  • Things Most Strange and Wondrous: Medicine in the Renaissance. Durham County Library. December 29, 2009  2009
  • Microhistory and Narrative. November 20, 2009  2009
  • The Last Witch of Langenburg. November 20, 2009  2009
  • Microhistory and its Ambitions. November 3, 2009  2009
  • Microhistory and its Challenges. September 20, 2009  2009
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • Master Classes in Microhistory. Eötvös Loránd University. October 19, 2016 - October 26, 2016  2016

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