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Michael Printy's picture
Printy, Michael
Head, Humanities Group and Librarian for Western European Humanities
Email
michael.printy@yale.edu
Phone
+1 (203) 436-9215
Publications
Researcher Profile
Office Location
Room 307A
Residential College Affiliation
Jonathan Edwards
About
Selector for these areas:
  • French Language & Literature
  • German Language and Literature (SML)
  • History - Western Europe (Medieval)
  • History - Western Europe (Modern)
  • Italian Language & Literature
Interests

German History, European Intellectual History, The Enlightenment, History of Christianity

Publications:
  • Enlightenment’s Reformation: Religion and Philosophy in Germany, 1750-1830 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024).

  • “History and Church History in the Catholic Enlightenment.” Modern Intellectual History, published online April 2019, doi:10.1017/S1479244319000118.

  • "Social Physics: Observation and the Science of Man in Lichtenberg's Hogarth Commentaries" in Hogarth’s Legacy. New Haven: Lewis Walpole Library, 2016.
    Available in Orbis http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12808424.

  • "The Determination of Man: Johann Joachim Spalding and the Protestant Enlightenment." Journal of the History of Ideas 74:2 (2013): 189-212.
    Available http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_ideas/v074/74.2.printy.html.

  • "Protestantism and Progress in the Year XII: Charles Villers's Essay on the Spirit and Influence of Luther's Reformation (1804)." Modern Intellectual History 9:2 (2012): 303-329.
    Available http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8631212.

  • Enlightenment and the Creation of German Catholicism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
    Available in Orbis http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/8603931.

  • "Skinner and Pocock in Context: Early Modern Political Thought Today." History and Theory 48:1 (2009): 113-121.
    Available http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2303.2009.00490.x/abstract.

  • A Companion to the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe. (Lehner, Ulrich P.) Leiden: Brill, 2007.
    Available in Orbis http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9371419.

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