Michael Printy
Biographic Data
| ID | 459635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Printy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Printy |
| SIGNATURE | PRINTY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-9156-6139 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century
History and Church History in the Catholic Enlightenment
More than a century ago, the German Catholic historian Sebastian Merkle made the case for a specifically Catholic engagement with the Enlightenment. His audience was largely Protestant academics, who assumed that Protestantism and modernity went hand in hand. But Merkle also refuted wholesale condemnations of the Enlightenment by conservative Catholics, who blamed the movement for the ills that had beset the Church since the French Revolution and…
Thomas Ahnert. The Moral Culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, 1690–1805
In this tightly argued book, Thomas Ahnert revises our understanding of the religious Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Scotland. He provides a counternarrative to Richard B. Sher’s classic study Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate Literati of Edinburgh (1985). Both scholars address the ways in which the Moderate wing of the clerical establishment, so named for a dispute over ecclesiastical patronage, profoundly in…
Avi Lifschitz. Language and Enlightenment: The Berlin Debates of the Eighteenth Century
At the opening of his study on language debates in the German Enlightenment, Avi Lifschitz invokes a comment by Johann Gottfried Herder that language, “the grand assistant of man,” had “enabled human beings to forge their entire material culture, as well as their intellectual endeavors” (p. 1). Lifschitz's study seeks to explore the context for Herder's remark. His account is framed by two prize contests sponsored by the Berlin Academy of Science…
The Determination of Man: Johann Joachim Spalding and the Protestant Enlightenment
This article uses Johan Joachim Spalding's Bestimmung des Menschen (1748) to explore the transformation of German Protestantism in the second half of the eighteenth century. The text was at once a philosophical and religious meditation about the senses, the spirit, the nature of creation, and the immortality of the soul. The essay demonstrates how Spalding's text points to three central features of the Protestant Enlightenment: an apologetical ef…
Protestantism and Progress in the Year Xii: Charles Villers's Essay on the Spirit and Influence of Luther's Reformation (1804)
This article examines Charles Villers's Essay on the Spirit and Influence of Luther's Reformation (1804) in its intellectual and historical context. Exiled from France after 1792, Villers intervened in important French and German debates about the relationship of religion, history, and philosophy. The article shows how he took up a German Protestant discussion on the meaning of the Reformation that had been underway from the 1770s through the end…
Ann Thomson, Bodies of Thought: Science, Religion, and the Soul in the Early Enlightenment
A Companion to the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe
This book offers the first comprehensive overview of the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe. It surveys the diversity of views about the structure and nature of the movement, pointing toward the possibilities for further research. The volume presents a series of comprehensive treatments on the process and interpretation of Catholic Enlightenment in France, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Holy Roman Empire, Malta, Italy and the Habsburg territories. An…
A companion to the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe
Companion to the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe
History of Islam in German Thought from Leibniz to Nietzsche
Journal Article History of Islam in German Thought from Leibniz to Nietzsche Get access History of Islam in German Thought from Leibniz to Nietzsche. By Ian Almond. ‘Routledge Studies in Cultural History’, 11. New York and London: Routledge. 2010. vii + 208 pp. £70 (hardback). Michael Printy Michael Printy Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 28, Issue 2, June 2010, Pa…
Enlightenment and the Creation of German Catholicism
This book tells the story of how eighteenth-century German Catholics rethought the Church. Educated German Catholics envisioned a Church that would solidify the link between religion, civilization, and morality. The first account of the German Catholic Enlightenment, this book explores the ways in which eighteenth-century Germans reconceived the relationship between religion, society, and the state. Seeking a balance between Germany and Rome, Cat…
Skinner and Pocock in Context: Early Modern Political Thought Today
Politics and Reformations: Communities, Polities, Nations, and Empires: Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Brady, Jr.
These twenty-six essays, presented by students, colleagues, and friends to Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Peder Sather Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley, examine urban, rural, national, and imperial histories in Early Modern Europe and abroad, and politics in Reformation Switzerland, Burgundy, Germany, and the Netherlands. Contributors include: C. Nathan Bartlett, Heidi Eberhard Bate, Ingrid Bátori, Katherine Brun, …
Politics and Reformations: Histories and Reformations: Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Brady, Jr.
These twenty-three essays, presented by students, colleagues, and friends to Thomas A. Brady, Jr., the Sather Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley, explore the historiographies of the Reformation from the fifteenth century to the present and study the social and cultural history of religion from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, especially in Germany but also in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and colonial …
From Barbarism to Religion: Church History and the Enlightened Narrative in Germany
The subject of this essay is the historical vision of the German Catholic Enlightenment as seen in the work of Michael Ignaz Schmidt, a Catholic priest and author of the eleven-volume History of the Germans (1778–1793). Schmidt wrote a thoroughly modern ‘history of manners’ that was indebted both to Voltaire and to Robertson. Yet his work passed into obscurity largely because he focused on the Holy Roman Empire and the Imperial Church—the two gre…
Protestantism and Progress in the Year Xii: Charles Villers's Essay on the Spirit and Influence of Luther's Reformation (1804)
This article examines Charles Villers's Essay on the Spirit and Influence of Luther's Reformation (1804) in its intellectual and historical context. Exiled from France after 1792, Villers intervened in important French and German debates about the relationship of religion, history, and philosophy. The article shows how he took up a German Protestant discussion on the meaning of the Reformation that had been underway from the 1770s through the end…
The Determination of Man: Johann Joachim Spalding and the Protestant Enlightenment
This article uses Johan Joachim Spalding's Bestimmung des Menschen (1748) to explore the transformation of German Protestantism in the second half of the eighteenth century. The text was at once a philosophical and religious meditation about the senses, the spirit, the nature of creation, and the immortality of the soul. The essay demonstrates how Spalding's text points to three central features of the Protestant Enlightenment: an apologetical ef…
From Barbarism to Religion: Church History and the Enlightened Narrative in Germany
The subject of this essay is the historical vision of the German Catholic Enlightenment as seen in the work of Michael Ignaz Schmidt, a Catholic priest and author of the eleven-volume History of the Germans (1778–1793). Schmidt wrote a thoroughly modern ‘history of manners’ that was indebted both to Voltaire and to Robertson. Yet his work passed into obscurity largely because he focused on the Holy Roman Empire and the Imperial Church—the two gre…
Politics and Reformations: Communities, Polities, Nations, and Empires: Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Brady, Jr.
These twenty-six essays, presented by students, colleagues, and friends to Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Peder Sather Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley, examine urban, rural, national, and imperial histories in Early Modern Europe and abroad, and politics in Reformation Switzerland, Burgundy, Germany, and the Netherlands. Contributors include: C. Nathan Bartlett, Heidi Eberhard Bate, Ingrid Bátori, Katherine Brun, …
Politics and Reformations: Histories and Reformations: Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Brady, Jr.
These twenty-three essays, presented by students, colleagues, and friends to Thomas A. Brady, Jr., the Sather Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley, explore the historiographies of the Reformation from the fifteenth century to the present and study the social and cultural history of religion from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, especially in Germany but also in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and colonial …
Enlightenment and the Creation of German Catholicism
This book tells the story of how eighteenth-century German Catholics rethought the Church. Educated German Catholics envisioned a Church that would solidify the link between religion, civilization, and morality. The first account of the German Catholic Enlightenment, this book explores the ways in which eighteenth-century Germans reconceived the relationship between religion, society, and the state. Seeking a balance between Germany and Rome, Cat…
Skinner and Pocock in Context: Early Modern Political Thought Today
A Companion to the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe
This book offers the first comprehensive overview of the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe. It surveys the diversity of views about the structure and nature of the movement, pointing toward the possibilities for further research. The volume presents a series of comprehensive treatments on the process and interpretation of Catholic Enlightenment in France, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Holy Roman Empire, Malta, Italy and the Habsburg territories. An…
A companion to the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe
Companion to the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe
History of Islam in German Thought from Leibniz to Nietzsche
Journal Article History of Islam in German Thought from Leibniz to Nietzsche Get access History of Islam in German Thought from Leibniz to Nietzsche. By Ian Almond. ‘Routledge Studies in Cultural History’, 11. New York and London: Routledge. 2010. vii + 208 pp. £70 (hardback). Michael Printy Michael Printy Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 28, Issue 2, June 2010, Pa…
Protestantism and Progress in the Year Xii: Charles Villers's Essay on the Spirit and Influence of Luther's Reformation (1804)
This article examines Charles Villers's Essay on the Spirit and Influence of Luther's Reformation (1804) in its intellectual and historical context. Exiled from France after 1792, Villers intervened in important French and German debates about the relationship of religion, history, and philosophy. The article shows how he took up a German Protestant discussion on the meaning of the Reformation that had been underway from the 1770s through the end…
Ann Thomson, Bodies of Thought: Science, Religion, and the Soul in the Early Enlightenment
The Determination of Man: Johann Joachim Spalding and the Protestant Enlightenment
This article uses Johan Joachim Spalding's Bestimmung des Menschen (1748) to explore the transformation of German Protestantism in the second half of the eighteenth century. The text was at once a philosophical and religious meditation about the senses, the spirit, the nature of creation, and the immortality of the soul. The essay demonstrates how Spalding's text points to three central features of the Protestant Enlightenment: an apologetical ef…
Avi Lifschitz. Language and Enlightenment: The Berlin Debates of the Eighteenth Century
At the opening of his study on language debates in the German Enlightenment, Avi Lifschitz invokes a comment by Johann Gottfried Herder that language, “the grand assistant of man,” had “enabled human beings to forge their entire material culture, as well as their intellectual endeavors” (p. 1). Lifschitz's study seeks to explore the context for Herder's remark. His account is framed by two prize contests sponsored by the Berlin Academy of Science…
Thomas Ahnert. The Moral Culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, 1690–1805
In this tightly argued book, Thomas Ahnert revises our understanding of the religious Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Scotland. He provides a counternarrative to Richard B. Sher’s classic study Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate Literati of Edinburgh (1985). Both scholars address the ways in which the Moderate wing of the clerical establishment, so named for a dispute over ecclesiastical patronage, profoundly in…
History and Church History in the Catholic Enlightenment
More than a century ago, the German Catholic historian Sebastian Merkle made the case for a specifically Catholic engagement with the Enlightenment. His audience was largely Protestant academics, who assumed that Protestantism and modernity went hand in hand. But Merkle also refuted wholesale condemnations of the Enlightenment by conservative Catholics, who blamed the movement for the ills that had beset the Church since the French Revolution and…
Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century
Philosophy (13 works) · Theology (12 works) · History (11 works) · Enlightenment (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (9 works) · German (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Religious studies (7 works) · Art (6 works)