Tom
Cohen
| Degrees: | Ph.D, Harvard
University 1974 |
| Current Position: |
Professor, History and Humanities (Arts), York University
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Recent Publications: |
Books (with E. S. Cohen): Daily Life in Renaissance Italy. Westport CT: Greenwood, 2001, xiii, 316 pp. NB: This is a book in a series intended for lower-level university students. It is not refereed, but as synthesis, it aims for originality, and it contains a great deal of new material based on archival work. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2004, ix, 306 pp.) NB: a book of six microhistories, Roman
or from the hinterland of Rome, 1550-1580, united by themes of social
action, agency, values, and transactions, and by the narrative themes
of love, sex, and death. Articles in Refereed Journals "Three Forms of Jeopardy: Honor, Pain and Truth-telling in a Sixteenth-Century Italian Courtroom" Sixteenth Century Journal,XXIX/4 (1998): 975-998. (with E. S. Cohen): "Open and Shut: The Social Meanings of the Renaissance Italian House,” Bard Graduate School of Design Journal, vol. ix, no. 1 (fall-winter, 2001-2002): 61-84. "Reflections on Retelling a Renaissance Murder" History and Theory, December, 2002: vol. 41, no. 4: 6-16. Guest edited a three-article cycle on legal records and social anthropology (Spain, Switzerland, Italy) for Journal of Early Modern History Spring, 2003, vol. 7, no. 1-2: “Introduction” with S. Pohl and S. Taylor: 1-7; my own article is "Bourdieu in Bed: the Seduction of Innocentia (Rome, 1570)": 55-85. “The Death of Abramo of Montecosaro,” Jewish History (2005) 19: 245-85 with E. S. Cohen,”Testimonios judiciales como ego-documentos,” contribution to: ''De la autobiografía a los ego-documentos: un forum abierto,” James S. Amelang, co-ordinator, in Cultura escrita y sociedad volume 1 (Alcalá de Henares, 2005): 58-61 Articles in refereed journals of pedagogy "The Savelli Murder Project: Unsolved Mystery Story as Historical Pedagogy." Positive Pedagogy, 1:2 (May, 2001) (electronic journal). Other pedagogical articles Chapter in a high school textbook Chapter 1 of Legacy, ed. Garfield Newman, Toronto: McGraw Hill, 2002, pp. 29-65. (NB, gelded and blurred by the editorial process).
(with E.S. Cohen), a foreword to Shell Games, edited by M. Crane, R. Raiswell, and M. Reeves, Toronto: Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, 2004, pp. 1-7 Translations Fosi, Irene, "Court and city in the ceremony of the possesso in the sixteenth century." Gianvittorio Signorotto and Maria Antonietta Visceglia, eds., Court and Politics in Papal Rome, 1492-1700. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 1-52. Fosi, Irene. “Foreigners in Papal Rome,” in Jill Burke, ed., Court Culture in Rome, London: Ashgate, forthcoming 2006. Reviews Cohn, Samuel K. Women in the Streets. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. In Sixteenth Century Journal. XXIX/2 (1998): 577-9 Chambers, D. S. Renaissance Cardinals and their Worldly Problems. London: Variorum, 1997. In Sixteenth Century Journal. XXIX/2 (1998): 626-8 Astarita, Tomasso. Village Justice: Community, Family, and Popular Culture in Early Modern Italy. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins, 1999. In American Historical Review (2001): 676-7 Fragnito, Gigliola, ed. Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy. Trans. Adrian Felton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. For Quaderni dell’ italianistica (2001) Dandelet, Thomas. Spanish Rome. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. For American Historical Review, vol. 108, no. 1 (2003): 281-2 Dunn, Jane. Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens. HarperCanada, Toronto, 2003, Globe and Mail, April 3, 2004, p. D 18. Dava Sobel, Dava, "Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love," History of Intellectual Culture, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2003) [web journal], 2004. Pascal Brioist, Hervé Drevillon et Pierre Serra, Croiser le fer: violence et culture de l’ épée dans la France moderne (Xvuie-XVIIIe si ècle), Seyssel, Champ Vallon, 2002, 249 pp., in Social History/ Histoire Sociale, vol. xxxvii, n.o 74 (mid-May, 2004): 98-100. Darren Oldridge, Strange Histories: The trial of the pig, the walking dead, and other matters of fact from the medieval and Renaissance worlds, London and New York: Routledge, 2005, x, 198 p., in the Medieval Review (2005) (electronic publication)
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Talks / Presentations: |
"Portia, prostituta ex hebrea," Conference: L'altra metà della stella: spunti di storia di donne ebree italiane. Sponsored by the Unione delle communità ebraiche italiane/ Centro bibliografico, Fondazione per i beni culturali ebraici in Italia, 14 March, 1999 "Pierre Bourdieu and the Seduction of Innocentia (Rome, 1570)" Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, November 4, 2000 Chair session and sum up conference: "Shell Games: Scams, Frauds, and Deceit (1300-1650)", University of Toronto, 2809 April, 2001 "The Spanish Ambassador's Brawl, " AHA, San Francisco, Jan., 2002 "Political Ethics and Political Ideology in Two Marchigiana Towns," Sixteenth Century Studies, San Antonio, October 2002 (with Elizabeth Cohen): Teasing the unexpected out of early modern judicial documents: a joint session with two Cohen papers discussed by the Graduate Seminar in European History, Cornell University, Nov. 15, 2002. My paper: "Just what science killed these baby pigeons? (Rome, 1572)" " 'You Have Cut Off the Nose of
Casa Savelli': Wife-Murder as Elegant “Judicial Epistemology in Sixteenth-Century Rome,” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Pittsburgh, 1 November 2003. At this same conference, I co-organized with Elizabeth Cohen a session, “Negotiating Local Power in Southern Europe” and commented and chaired at another, “Masculinity and sexuality in early modern Spain and England.” Chair and commentator: session: “Authority, Trust, and Witness in Medieval and Early Modern Europe,” American Historical Association, Washington DC, January 9, 2004 “The Cruel Seductions of Fiscale Pallantieri,” talk given at University of York, York, U.K. June 8, 2004 at seminar with Elizabeth Cohen: “Working women’s woes in early modern Rome: a duet of microhistories” “The Anthropology of Truth-Speaking” Conference: Truth and Falsehood in Early Modern Italy, Villa Spelman, Florence, 14-16 October, 2004 “Pensando al lettore…Perchè trattare la storia come di scrivere,” seminar at Università di Roma I (La Sapienza), May 24, 2005 Pedagogical talks “Rome in the Sixteenth Century,” for Glendon series: Living and Learning in Retirement: 17 January, 2003 “Reading against the Grain: Hypothesis formation as pedagogy,” Ontario History and Social Science Teachers’ Association (OHSSTA), Toronto, 7 November 2003 “Approaches to Active Learning” at pedagogical conference, “Evaluating and Assessing Student Learning,” York University Centre for the Support of Teaching, February 16, 2004. (I spoke on the Armada simulation project and wrote the talk up for CORE, the York pedagogical newsletter). Talk to new faculty on my hypothesis formation technique: Welcome to our Classrooms: CST, 24 August, 2004 Talk for CST on contrafactual historical teaching, as in the Armada War project, 2004 (with Jerry Ginsburg), “Beyond the Lecture: encouraging critical reflection through small group dynamics” OHASSTA, Toronto, 7 November 2004 For CST at York: two talks in the session
for new York faculty: one on impersonation, and one on training
in hypothesis formation 15-16 August 2005
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| Courses taught recently: |
Humanities 1125: Medieval
and Renaissance Civilization |
| Research Interests: | Early modern Italy,
political and cultural anthropology of early modern Europe, miscrohistory,
and the esthetics of scholarship |
| Awards/Grants: |
SSHRC with Elizabeth Cohen: 1996-8; Arts Leave Fellowship, 2001-2 |
