J. Laurel Carrington

Department of History
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN 55057
(507) 786-3628

409 Lockwood Drive
Northfield, MN 55057
(507) 663-6151

  EDUCATION

Ph.D., Department of History, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; August, 1986.

• MAJOR FIELD: Early Modern Europe (John Najemy, advisor).
• MINOR FIELDS: Medieval Europe; Modern European Intellectual History.
• DISSERTATION: Erasmus and the Problem of Language

M.A., Department of History, Cornell University; December, 1981

A.B., Intellectual History, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA; May, 1976

 EMPLOYMENT

• Fall, 2005—Present: Professor, Department of History, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN.
• Fall, 1993—Spring, 2005: Associate Professor, Department of History, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN.
• Fall, 1988—Spring, 1993: Assistant Professor, Department of History, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN.
• 1986-88: Teaching and Research Fellow, full time, Department of History, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
• 1985-86: Bankhead Fellow, full time, Department of History, University of Alabama, University, AL.
• Spring, 1985: Instructor, part time, Department of History, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
• 1981-82, Fall 1982, Summer 1984: Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Cornell University.

 COURSES

• History 190: Europe from the Ancients to the Renaissance
• History 211: The Early Middle Ages
• History 212: The High and Late Middle Ages
• History 217: The Age of the Renaissance
• History 218: Reformation Europe
• History 237: Women in Medieval Europe
• History 238: Women in Early Modern Europe
• History 309: Early Modern European Seminar; Topic: The early Reformation
• History 310: Medieval Survey Topic: Medieval Italy

 PUBLICATIONS AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

IN PROGRESS:

• Translation, with annotations: Martin Bucer Epistola Apologetica.

SCHOLARLY EDITIONS:

• Annotations and Introductions for Erasmus's Epistola contra pseudevangelicos and Epistola ad Fratres Germaniae Inferioris, to appear in vol. 78 of The Collected Works of Erasmus (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming).
• Annotations for Erasmus's Explanatio symboli, in vol. 70 of The Collected Works of Erasmus (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998).

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS:

• Twentieth Annual Margaret Mann Phillips Lecture: "Point and Counterpoint:  Erasmus’ Debate with Martin Bucer," Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 28 (2008), pp. 43-66
• "Erasmus’s Readings of Romans 3, 4, and 5 as Rhetoric and Theology," in Reformation Readings of Romans, Kathy Ehrensperger and R. Ward Holder, eds. (New York and London: 2008), pp. 10-20.
• "Parallel Lives: Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Bucer," in Camden House History of German Literature, vol. IV, Early Modern German Literature, Max Reinhart, ed.
• “Calvin and Erasmus on Pastoral Formation,” Calvin and the Company of Pastors (Calvin Studies Society, 2004), pp. 129-147.
• "Impiety Compounded: Scaliger's Double-Edged Critique of Erasmus," Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 22 (2002), pp. 57--67.
• "Desiderius Erasmus," in The Reformation Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Early Modern Period, Carter Lindberg, ed. (Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: 2002), pp. 34-48.
• Review Article: Timothy Wengert, Human Freedom, Christian Righteousness: Philip Melanchthon's Exegetical Dispute with Erasmus of Rotterdam (Oxford, UK: 1998); Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 20 (2000), pp. 57-61.
• "The Boundaries Between Text And Reader: Erasmus's Approach to Reading Scripture," in Archiv fur Reformationsgechichte1997, pp. 5-22.
• "Rhetoric and Letter Writing: The Correspondence between Marguerite d'Alençon and Bishop Briçonnet of Meaux," in Essays on the Rhetorical Activities of Historical Women, ed. Molly Meier Wertheimer (University of South Carolina Press, 1996), pp. 215-232.
• Review Article: Collected Works of Erasmus, vol. 29, Literary and Educational Writings, translated and annotated by Elaine Fantham and Erika Rummel (Toronto, 1989), Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook Eleven (1991), pp. 122-129.
• "The Writer and his Style: The Correspondence of Erasmus and Guillaume Budé," The Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook Ten (1990), pp. 61-84.
• "Erasmus on the Use and Abuse of Metaphor," Neo-Latin Acta: Toronto, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Binghamton, NY: 1990), pp. 111-120.
• "Erasmus' Lingua: The Double-Edged Tongue," The Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook Nine (1989), pp. 106-118.

BOOK REVIEWS (completed since 1994):

• Howard P. Louthan and Randall C. Zachman, eds.. Conciliation and Confession: The Struggle for Unity in the Age of Reform, 1415-1648 (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004) for Renaissance Quarterly.
• Christoph Strohm, et al., ed.. Martin Bucer und das Recht (Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2002), for Renaissance Quarterly.
• Rudolph Agricola Letters, edited by Adrie van der Laan and Fokke Akkerman (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002), for Sixteenth Century Journal. 
• Istsvan Bejczy. Erasmus and the Middle Ages: The Historical Consciousness of a Christian Humanist (Leiden: Brill, 2001), for Sixteenth Century Journal.
• Erasmus Controversies, edited by Guy Bedouelle, translated by Howard Jones, Charles Fantazzi, and Ann Dalzell, annotated by Guy Bedouelle, Charles Fantazzi, and Ann Dalzell. Collected Works of Erasmus 83 (Toronto-Buffalo-London: University of Toronto Press, 1998), for Sixteenth Century Journal.
• Louis Haas The Renaissance Man and His Children: Childbirth and Early Childhood in Florence, 1300--1600 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998), for The Historian.
• Marc Laureys, et al., ed. The world of Justus Lipsius: A contribution towards his intellectual biography (Brussels and Rome: Bulletin de L'Institut Historique Belge de Rome, 1998), for Renaissance Quarterly.
• M.E.H.N. Mout, H. Smolinsky and J. Trapman, eds. Erasmianism: Idea and Reality. (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1997), for Renaissance Quarterly.
• Erasmus Paraphrase on the Acts of the Apostles. Edited by John J. Bateman, trans. and annotated by Robert D. Sider. Collected Works of Erasmus 50 (Toronto-Buffalo-London: University of Toronto Press, 1995), for Sixteenth Century Journal.
• Joel F. Harrington Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), for American Journal of Legal History.
• Jean-Claude Margolin Erasme, Precepteur de l'Europe (Paris: Editions Julliard, 1995), for Renaissance Quarterly.
• Pabel, Hilmar M., Ed. Erasmus' Vision of the Church (Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Kirksville, MO: 1995), for Journal of Ecclesiastical History.
• David Steinmetz Calvin in Context (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), for The Historian.
• Erasmus The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1122 to 1251. Trans. by R.A.B. Mynors, annotated by Peter G. Bietenholz. Collected Works of Erasmus, 8 (Toronto-Buffalo-London: University of Toronto Press, 1988), for Sixteenth Century Journal.

CONFERENCE PAPERS (since 1994):

• "Stultitia Loquitur: The Rhetoric of Presence in Erasmus's Praise of Folly" for the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, May 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
• "Tragedy or Triumph? Bucer and Erasmus on the Reform in Basel" for the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 2008, St. Louis, MO
• “Point and Counterpoint:  Erasmus’ Debate with Martin Bucer” for the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 26-28, 2006, Salt Lake City, UT
• "Erasmus and Calvin on Pastoral Formation" for the Calvin Studies Society Conference, May 22-24, 2003, South Bend, Indiana. "Bucer's Defense Against Erasmus: The Epistola Apologetica," Zur Koordination der Internationalen Bucer-Forschung, Erlangen, Germany, March 21--23, 2002.
• "Stories of Betrayal: Erasmus' Conflict with the Sacramentarians," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver, CO, October 2001.
• "Impiety Compounded: Scaliger's Double-Edged Critique of Erasmus," Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, IL, March, 2001; organized panel on behalf of the Erasmus of Rotterdam Society.
• "The Later Erasmus: The Clash Between Christian Humanism and the Evangelical Reform," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, OH, October 2000.
• "Erasmus' Controversy with Bucer: The Epistola ad fratres Germaniae Inferioris," at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, October, 1998.
• "Marguerite of Navarre and the Literary Context for the French Reform," at a special session of the Renaissance Society of America, at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, January 1997.
• "The Limits of Mediation: Toward and Understanding of the Bucer/Erasmus Debate," at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Francisco, CA, October, 1995. Organizer of Panel on Collected Works of Erasmus vol. 78 with John Payne and Manfred Hoffmann.
• "The Boundaries between Text and Reader: Erasmus' Ratio Verae Theologiae," sponsored by the Society for Reformation Research at the Twenty-Ninth International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 1995.
• "The Via Negativa in the Correspondence between Marguerite de Navarre and Bishop Briçonnet of Meaux," at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Oct., 1995.
• "Rhetoric and Letter Writing: The Correspondence between Marguerite d'Alençon and Bishop Briçonnet of Meaux," at the Speech Communications Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November, 1994.

OTHER:

Editorial Board, Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook, October 1998-present.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

• Grant for development of War and Peace course for the emergency curriculum, August, 2009.
• Robert E. Sloan Award, presented at the Minnesota AAUP Annual Meeting, October 28, 2000.
• Summer Faculty Development Grant, St. Olaf College, June-August 1996.
• Six-Month Fellow, ACM/GLCA Newberry Library Program in the Humanities for fall term, 1994.
• Joyce Foundation, Teacher-Scholar Team, grant awarded with Gary DeKrey for 1992-93.
• Mellon Seminar, "Language, Translation and Culture," for January-May 1992.
• Summer Faculty Development Grant, St. Olaf College, June-August 1990.
• Bankhead Fellowship, Department of History, University of Alabama, 1985086. Appointment combining half-time teaching duties with research responsibilities.

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