The Censorship and Fortuna of Platina's 'Lives of the Popes' ... by Stefan Bauer

The book was a finalist for the RefoRC book award 2020.įor recent audio and video interviews about this book see New Books Network and Il canale dei libri. These new findings are situated in the context of the uneasy relationship between history and theology during the turmoil of politics and religion in the sixteenth century. My new book corrects this distorting emphasis and shows how history-writing became part of a comprehensive formation of the image and self-perception of the papacy.

Most importantly, how was the history of post-classical Rome and of the Church written in the Counter Reformation? Historical texts composed in Rome at this time have been considered secondary to the city’s significance for the history of art. History-writing in early modern Rome is a surprisingly underexplored subject, with major open questions. He previously held positions as a Lecturer in Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London as a Lecturer in Early Modern History and Marie Curie Fellow in York and as a Research Fellow both at the German Historical Institute in Rome and the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trent.īuilding on my earlier work on Bartolomeo Platina’s History of the Popes, its afterlife and papal censorship, my third monograph, The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform, came out with Oxford University Press in 2020. Bauer is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York an Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London a Privatdozent at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2021, he was elected to the Council of the Royal Historical Society. Stefan Bauer is an intellectual and cultural historian of early modern Europe his research interests cover humanism, religious polemic, church history, and censorship. Email - Research Fellow, Department of History (2021–2024)

The Censorship and Fortuna of Platina's 'Lives of the Popes' ... by Stefan Bauer