Joel F. Harrington

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Joel Francis Harrington (born August 25, 1959) is an American historian of pre-modern Germany. He is currently Centennial Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.[1] He has published books for both scholarly and general audiences, and his work has been translated into thirteen foreign languages.

Education[edit]

Harrington was born in Toledo, Ohio, and attended Catholic elementary and secondary schools there. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1981 with a B.A. in English and History. After studying at universities in France and Germany, Harrington was awarded a Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1989.[citation needed]

Career and Scholarship[edit]

Since 1989, Harrington has taught at Vanderbilt University, where he is now Centennial Professor of History. His research has focused on pre-1700 Germany, particularly on social, legal, and religious topics. He has been especially interested in finding a balanced perspective on short-term micro-historical individual experiences and long-term macro-historical social structures.[1]

Harrington's most recent monograph, Dangerous Mystic,[2] provides a focused study of the life and teachings of the famous medieval friar Meister Eckhart. His third monograph, The Faithful Executioner,[3] adopted a similar approach for the life and times of a sixteenth-century German executioner. Following the release of The Faithful Executioner, Harrington edited and translated The Executioner's Journal: Meister Frantz Schmidt of the Imperial City.[4] Harrington has also published The Unwanted Child[5] (2009) and Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany[6] (1995). He worked as an editor for A Cloud of Witnesses: Readings in the History of Western Christianity[7] (2001) and co-edited Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany[8] with Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer in 2019.

Harrington was a visiting fellow at Institut für Geschichte der Medizin (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Herzog August Bibliothek (Wolfenbüttel), Clare College (Cambridge University) and at the American Academy in Berlin.[9]

Personal life[edit]

Harrington lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife, Beth Monin Harrington, and their two children.

Award and honors[edit]

Selected bibliography[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany (Cambridge University Press, 1995; paperback: 2005). ISBN 0-521-46483-8.
  • (Editor), A Cloud of Witnesses: Readings in the History of Western Christianity (Houghton Mifflin, 2001). ISBN 0-395-96883-6.
  • The Unwanted Child: The Fate of Orphans, Foundlings, and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany (University of Chicago Press, 2009; paperback: 2013). ISBN 978-0-226-31729-8.
  • The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013; Paperback: 2013). ISBN 978-1-250-04361-0.
  • (Editor & Translator), The Executioner’s Journal: Meister Frantz Schmidt of the Imperial City of Nuremberg (University of Virginia Press, 2016). ISBN 978-0-8139-3871-4.
  • Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart’s Path to the God Within (Penguin Press, 2018). ISBN 978-1-101-98156-6.
  • (Co-editor with Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer), Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany (Berghahn, 2019). ISBN 978-1-78920-211-3.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "People - Joel Harrington". Department of History. Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  2. ^ Harrington, Joel F. (Joel Francis) (20 March 2018). Dangerous mystic : Meister Eckhart's path to the God within. New York, New York. ISBN 978-1-101-98156-6. OCLC 993419510.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Harrington, Joel F. (Joel Francis) (31 December 2013). The faithful executioner : life and death, honor and shame in the turbulent Sixteenth Century (First Picador ed.). New York. ISBN 978-1-250-04361-0. OCLC 878509990.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ The executioner's journal : Meister Frantz Schmidt of the imperial city of Nuremberg. Harrington, Joel F. (Joel Francis). Charlottesville. 2 September 2016. ISBN 978-0-8139-3871-4. OCLC 950084160.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ^ Harrington, Joel F. (Joel Francis) (2009). The unwanted child : the fate of foundlings, orphans, and juvenile criminals in early modern Germany. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-31729-8. OCLC 593222250.
  6. ^ Harrington, Joel F. (Joel Francis) (1995). Reordering marriage and society in Reformation Germany. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-46483-8. OCLC 30110363.
  7. ^ A cloud of witnesses : readings in the history of Western Christianity. Harrington, Joel F. (Joel Francis). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2001. ISBN 0-395-96883-6. OCLC 46388721.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  8. ^ Names and naming in early modern Germany. Plummer, Marjorie Elizabeth,, Harrington, Joel F. (Joel Francis),, German Studies Association. New York. June 2019. ISBN 978-1-78920-211-3. OCLC 1088604002.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  9. ^ "Past Fellows". American Academy. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  10. ^ "Awards – American Academy of Arts and Letters". Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  11. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | All Fellows". Archived from the original on 2020-11-10. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
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