P. Renée Baernstein
Contact
Titles
- Associate Professor of History
Education
- PhD 1993, Harvard University
- AB, Cornell University
Teaching and Research Interests
- Early Modern Italy
- Women and family
- Cultural history of religion
- World history
Recently taught graduate courses
- HST 452/552 Florence in the Time of the Republic, 1250-1550
- HST 794 History and Theories
Selected Publications
- A Convent Tale: A Century of Sisterhood in Spanish Milan, Routledge, 2002
- “Reprobates and Courtiers: Lay Masculinities in the Colonna Family, 1520-1584” in Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance Italy, ed. David S. Peterson with Daniel E. Bornstein, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008
- “Tullia d’Aragona: Two New Sonnets,” with Julia Hairston, Modern Language Notes, 2007
Selected Grants and Awards
- Visiting Professorship, The Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, 2009
Work in Progress
Dr. Baernstein teaches the history of Renaissance, Reformation, and Counter-Reformation Europe. Her current book project, Gender and Marriage in Baroque Rome: The Colonna Family, argues that the unique characteristics of the Papal political system, particularly clerical celibacy, created in the ruling class a family environment conducive to women holding powerful but hidden and mistrusted positions of influence.
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