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Hilary Bernstein

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Fall 2009 (current)


Winter 2010 (tentative)


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Renaissance Europe


Associate Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1996

Office: HSSB 4235 Fall 2009 Hours: M 11 am-noon; R 2:30-4 pm
Phone: none: budget cuts   Fax: (805) 893-8795
Email: bernstein@history.ucsb.edu

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Early Modern Europe -- Renaissance Europe
  • Early Modern France, 1450-1700
  • Urban History; Political Culture; Intellectual Networks

Selected Publications

  • Between Crown and Community: Politics and Civic Culture in Sixteenth-Century Poitiers (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004)
  • “The ‘Bourgeoisie Seconde,’ the Catholic League, and Urban Society,” French History 17 (December 2003): 342-51
  • “The Shadow of the Revolution: Continuities in Society and Politics in Early Modern France,” Journal of Urban History 28 (September 2002): 769-777
  • “The Benefit of the Ballot? Elections and Influence in Sixteenth-Century Poitiers,” French Historical Studies 24 (fall 2001): 621-52

Undergraduate and Graduate Courses

  • History 4B: Western Civilization (1050 CE to 1715 CE)
  • History 121A: Renaissance Italy, 1300 to 1550
  • History 121B: Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe
  • History 121C: Early Modern France, 1500-1700
  • History I21D: Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe
  • History 121M: Renaissance Monarchy in Thought and Practice
  • History 121P: Proseminar in Renaissance Europe
  • History 121Q: Cultures of Renaissance Europe, 1450 to 1650
  • History 194AH-BH: Senior Honors Seminar
  • History 200E: Historical Literature: Europe
  • History 201E: Advanced Historical Literature: Europe
  • History 243A-B: Polemic in Print: Politics, Rhetoric, and Religion in Early Modern Europe

Honors and Professional Activities

  • Phi Beta Kappa, 1988.