Edward Wallace Muir Jr.
Edward Wallace Muir Jr. (born 1946) is a Professor of History and Italian at
Family
Muir was raised in
Life and career
Muir studied History at the
He has held fellowships from among others the Guggenheim Foundation,[2] the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the National Humanities Center, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford.[3] In 2010, he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, currently the largest award in the humanities.[4][5] In 2014 he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[6]
Throughout his career his work has rotated around two problems, the means for establishing a civil society in late medieval and Renaissance Italy, especially through ritual, and the forces of disorder working against civil society, especially vendettas. Although rooted in an analysis of the social structures of cities and networks of patrons and families, most of his work has engaged the interpretation of meaning through public representations, whether in civic rituals, carnival festivity, or operas.
He is an avid skier.
Works
- Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice (Princeton University Press, 1981) (Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History)
- Italian translation: Il rituale civico a Venezia nel Rinascimento (Rome: Il Veltro Editrice, 1984).
- The Leopold von Ranke Manuscript Collection of Syracuse University: The Complete Catalogue (Syracuse University Press, 1983).
- Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective. Co-edited with Guido Ruggiero. Selections from Quaderni Storici, no. 1. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
- Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe. Co-edited with Guido Ruggiero. Selections from Quaderni Storici, no. 2. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
- Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 390pp. (Winner of the Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History)
- Reader's edition: Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta in Renaissance Italy. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
- Italian translation: Il sangue s’infuria e ribolle: La vendetta nell’Italia del Rinascimento. Verona: Cierre edizioni, 2010.
- History from Crime. Co-edited with Guido Ruggiero. Selections from Quaderni Storici, no. 3. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, 236pp.
- Ritual in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1997, 2nd edition, 2005).
- Italian translation: Riti e rituali nell’Europa moderna. Milan, La Nuova Italia, 2000.
- Spanish translation: Fiesta y rito en la Europa moderna. Madrid, Editorial Complutense, 2001.
- Co-author with Brian Levack, Michael Maas, and Meredith Veldman, The West: Encounters and Transformations. New York: Addison Wesley Longman (new Prentice Hall), 2004. Concise edition, 2006. 2nd full edition, 2007. 3rd full edition, 2010.
- The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007.
- Italian translation: Guerre culturali: Libertinismo e religione alla fine del Rinascimento. Bari: Laterza, 2008.
References
- ^ RSA Presidents
- ^ Guggenheim Fellow: Edward Muir, 1984
- ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - 1984 Fellows Page Archived July 31, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Distinguished Achievement Award (Muir)
- ^ "EDWARD MUIR HONORED BY MELLON FOUNDATION: The historian is one of three scholars to receive prestigious award". Northwestern University. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
- ^ Fellman, Megan. "Three attend American Academy of Arts and Sciences ceremony". Northwestern University. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
External links
- Muir's CV
- Muir's Faculty Page Archived 2015-08-06 at the Wayback Machine at Northwestern's History Department