Gregory Hanlon
George Munro Chair in History and Distinguished Research Professor
Email: gregory.hanlon@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-3642
Fax: 902-494-3349
Mailing Address:
Room 3176, Marion McCain Building, 6135 University Ave
PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Research Topics:PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
- Early modern Italian and French history
- Behavioural history
- Baroque civilizations
- War and society
- Legal history
- Material culture
- Human ethology and social psychology
Education
- Licence és Lettres (Bordeaux)
- MA (Toronto)
- Doctorat du 3e cycle (Bordeaux)
Selected publications
- Death Control in the West 15001800, forthcoming 2022.
- European Military History 1500-1750,Ìý Rutledge, 2020
- Italy 1636:Ìý Cemetery of Armies,Ìý Oxford University Press, 2016
- The Hero of Italy: The duke of Parma and the Thirty Years' War.Ìý Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Vita Rurale in Terra Di Siena Nel Seicento Natura. Pascal Editrice, 2008.Ìý
- Human Nature in Rural Tuscany: an early modern history. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007. (Italian translation completed, by dott. Simone Caffari).
- The Origins of Modern Italy 1550-1800; Three seasons in European History. London & New York,Ìý Palgrave, 2000 (Italian translation, Il Mulino, Storia dell’Italia moderna, Bologna, 2002).
- The Twilight of a Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats and European Conflicts, 1560-1800. London, University College London Press, (now Taylor & Francis) 1998.
- Confession and Community in Seventeenth-Century France:Ìý Catholic and Protestant coexistence in Aquitaine. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993, 312 pp.
- L’Univers des gens de bien: Culture et comportements des élites urbaines en Aquitaine au 17e siècle, Bordeaux, Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 1989
Awards and honours
- 1984 Prix Tonnadre, Société Académique d'Agen, for doctoral thesis, Culture et comportements des élites urbaines en Agenais-Condomois au 17e siècle.
- 1992 Brewer Prize, American Society for Church History, for best book manuscript in any field of religious history.
- 1998 Marraro Prize, Society for Italian Historical Studies, for best book in Italian history published in 1998
- 2017 Induction into the Académie Nationale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux
- 2019 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, Munro Professor of History
- 2022 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, Distinguished Research Professor
Teaching and Syllabi
Fall 2024
Winter 2025
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Fall 2024 Office Hours
- Tuesday and Thursday 2:30 to 4:30
- Walk-ins available if door open
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