Dr. Jonathan A. Reid

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Arizona

Phone: 252-328-2558

Office: Brewster A-306

Fax: 252-328-6774

Email: reidj@ecu.edu

 

Jonathan Reid is a historian of late medieval and early modern Europe whose research focuses on the religious, intellectual, and social history of sixteenth-century France.   After taking a B.A. with honors at the University of Chicago, he completed graduate training and a Ph.D. with distinction under the direction of the much regretted Heiko A. Oberman (†) at The University of Arizona (2001).  There, he studied Medieval History with Alan E. Bernstein and Renaissance History with Donald Weinstein.  While conducting dissertation research in Paris, he attended Bernard Roussel’s seminars on the French Reformation at the École pratique des Hautes Études.  Until 2002, he enjoyed a stimulating period as a Research Fellow on the University of St. Andrews’ “Sixteenth Century French Book Project” under the direction of Andrew Pettegree.  Since 2002, he has been an Assistant Professor of History at East Carolina.  He teaches courses on World Civilizations, Early Modern Europe, the Renaissance, and the Reformation. Based in the History Department, he is also a member of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Classical Studies programs.

 

Dr. Reid’s forthcoming monograph, King’s Sister – Queen of Dissent: Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549) and her Evangelical Network, is a study of a prominent group of évangéliques, who attempted (and failed) to bring about renewal of the French Church along ‘Protestant’ theological lines.  His recent article, “Evangelical Networks in France (1520-1555): Proto-churches?” offers a new model to explain the little understood development of ‘clandestine’ evangelical communities in France and their rapid transformation into fully formed Reformed (Calvinist) churches after 1555.

 

He has been the recipient of major research grants including a Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Grant (1995-1996), and a Bourse Chateaubriand from the French Government (1997-1998).

 

Publications

 

King’s Sister – Queen of Dissent: Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549) and Her Evangelical Network.  Leiden: Brill Academic Press, under contract, 750 manuscript pages.

 

“Evangelical Networks in France (1520-1555): Proto-churches?” In The French and Italian Reformations: Contacts, Contrasts, and Comparisons.”  Ed. Philip Benedict, Silvana Seidel-Menchi, and Alain Tallon.  Rome: École Française de Rome, in press.

 

“France.”  In The Reformation World, 211-224.  Ed. Andrew Pettegree.  London: Routledge Press, 2000.

 

Courses Offered

 

HIST 1030: World Civilizations to 1500

HIST 3413: A History of Christianity, 1300 to Present (in development)

HIST 3420: Early Modern Europe to 1648

HIST 5350: The Renaissance in European History

HIST 5360: The Reformation