Dr. Caroline J. Litzenberger

Assistant Professor of History

(MA, Portland State; PhD, Cambridge)

E-mail:litzenbergerc@pdx.edu



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Teaching Interests
 

Research Interests
 

British History Research Links
 

Selected Recent Papers Presented
 

Selected Publications

 



Teaching Interests



 

The Renaissance

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Research Interests

 

Identity and gender in early modern England 
 

Religion in early modern England 



Selected Publications

 

Selected Recent Papers Presented
 
 

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British History Research Links

 

British Library
 

British Research Libraries (Unified Access)
 

Cambridge University Library
 

Conferences pertaining to Early Modern England
 

Essex Data Archive
 

Folger Shakespeare Library
 

Huntington Library
 

Institute of Historical Research
 

Library of Congress
 

Newberry Library
 

University of Oregon Library
 

University of Washington Library

 
 

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Selected Recent Papers Presented

 

"A Woman uses her Power to Support and Promote her Religion in Early Modern England: The Case of Joan Wilkinson," presented at the annual meeting of the Western Association of Women Historians in Portland, OR, 19 May 2001. 
 

"Constructing Gender in the English Reformation" presented at the 2000 Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in Cleveland, OH, 4 November 2000.
 

"The Art of Dying Well: The use of Published Texts in Sixteenth-century English Will Preambles" presented at the annual Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference in Tacoma, WA, 14 April 2000.
 

"Identity Formation and Strategies of Resistance to Elizabethan Religious Policies," presented at the annual meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies in Boston, MA, 20 November 1999.
 

"Women's use of Power to Support and Promote their Religion in Early Modern England," presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington, D. C., 9 January 1999. 
 

"Widows, Daughters, Goddaughters, Friends and Care-givers: Women in Sixteenth Century English Wills," presented at the 1998 Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in Toronto, 23 October 1998. 
 

"Communal Ritual, Concealed Belief: Layers of Response to the Regulation of Ritual in Reformation England," to be presented at the Conference on "State Religion and Folk Belief in the Early Modern World," sponsored by the Center for Early Modern History at the University of Minnesota, 2 May 1998.
 

"Community, Faith and Identity: Women's Will-making in Early Modern England," presented at the 1996 Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 25 October 1997. 
 

"Textual Sources for Religious Preambles in Early Modern English Wills," presented at the 1996 Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, 25 October 1996. 
 
 

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Selected Publications


"Communal Ritual, Concealed Belief: Layers of Response to the Regulation of Ritual in Reformation England" in Official Religion and Lived Religion in the Early Modern World: Conflict or Confluence?, ed. James Tracy (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2001)
 

Biographical entries for John Bullingham, James Bainham, William Tracy, Joan Wilkinson, James Brooks, William of Malvern alias Parker, and John Wakeman alias Wiche for the New Dictionary of National Biography, ed. Henry Summerson (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, in press).
 

The English Reformation and the Laity: Gloucestershire 1540-1580(Cambridge University Press, 1997).
 

Co-editor of Belief and Practice in Sixteenth Century England: A Tribute to Patrick Collinson from his Students, eds. Caroline Litzenberger and Susan Wabuda (Ashgate Press for St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History, 1998).
 

"Defining the Church of England: Religious Change in the 1570s" in Belief and Practice in Sixteenth Century England: A Tribute to Patrick Collinson from his Students, eds. Caroline Litzenberger and Susan Wabuda (Ashgate Press for St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History, 1998), 137-53.
 

"Local Responses to Religious Changes: Evidence from Gloucestershire Wills" in Religion and the English People, 1500-1640: New Perspectives/New Voices, ed. Eric Carlson (Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1998), 245-70.
 

"The Coming of Protestantism to Elizabethan Tewkesbury" in The Reformation in English Towns 1500-1640, eds. P. Collinson and J. Craig (Macmillan, 1998), 79-93.
 

"St. Michael's, Gloucester (1540-1580): The Cost of Conformity in Sixteenth Century England" in The Parish in English Life 1400-1600, eds. Katherine French, Gary Gibbs and Beat Kümin (Manchester University Press, 1997), 230-49.
 

"Computer-based Analysis of Early Modern English Wills," History and Computing 7 (1995): 143-51.
 

Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire Churchwardens Accounts, 1563-1624, transcribed and edited, with introduction (Gloucestershire Record Series, vol. 7, Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1994). 
 

"Richard Cheyney, Bishop of Gloucester, an Infidel in Religion?," The Sixteenth Century Journal 25 (1994): 567-84.

 
 

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British History Courses



 

HST 350U: England to 1660 (to be offered Fall 2001)

Syllabus
 

HST 351U: England from 1660 to the Present (to be offered Winter 2002)

Syllabus
 

HST 407/507: Seminar on Change in Early Modern England (offered Winter 2001)

Syllabus
 

Tudor England (offered Spring 2001)

Syllabus
 

Possible Future Offerings in British History (Term to be announced):
 

Survey of Scottish History 
 

Tentative Future Seminar Topics:
 

17th Century Britain (offered Fall 2000)
 

British Colonization of Ireland and North America
 

British Colonization of Africa and Southern Asia
 

Gender and Identity in Early Modern England
 

Order and Disorder in Early Modern England
 

Religious Change in Early Modern England

 
 

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European Women's History Courses



 

European Women, 1000 to 1750 (offered Spring 2001)

Syllabus
 


Tentative Future Seminar Topics on European Women's History (Term to be announced):
 

Women and Religion in Medieval and Early Modern England (to be offered Spring 2002)
 

Women and Work in Medieval and Early Modern England (offered Fall 2000)
 

Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe

 
 

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The 16th Century Reformations



 

HST 410: God, War and "the Truth" (to be offered Fall 2001)

Syllabus
 

HST 456/556: The Protestant and Catholic Reformations of the 16th Century (offered Spring 2000)
 

Syllabus

 

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The Renaissance


HST 455: The Renaissance (to be offered Spring 2002)

Syllabus (TBA)

 
 


 

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Historical Imagination


HST 300: Historical Imagination (offered Winter 2000)

Syllabus
 


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Independent Study (Some Possible Topics):


Paleography (Medieval Latin and/or Early Modern English)
 

Readings in British History (Specify Period and Topic)
 

Readings in European Women's History (Medieval and/or Early Modern Topics)
 

Readings in Reformation History (Specify Topic)
 


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