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PhD History University of California, Berkeley
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According to Wikipedia, Edward Wallace Muir Jr. is a Professor of History and Italian at Northwestern University. He is also Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence. Known for his use of anthropological methods in historical research, he was a pioneer in the historical study of ritual and feuding. He has been especially influential in using and interpreting microhistorical methods, which were first devised by historians in Italy. His work has focused on Renaissance Italy, especially the Republic of Venice and its territories. He is president of the American Historical Association in 2023.

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Edward Wallace Muir Jr.'s Published Works

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Ritual in Early Modern Europe (2007) (272)
Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice (1983) (205)
The 2001 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture: The Idea of Community in Renaissance Italy (2002) (84)
Microhistory and the lost peoples of Europe (1993) (65)
Why Venice? Venetian Society and the Success of Early Opera (2005) (60)
Alcohol, Sex and Gender in Late Medieval and Early (2001) (45)
The Sources of Civil Society in Italy (1999) (45)
History from Crime (1994) (38)
The Italian Renaissance in America (1995) (27)
Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective (1990) (27)
Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance (1994) (27)
Venturesome Capital: State Charter School Finance Systems. National Charter School Finance Study. (2000) (26)
Leopold von Ranke, His Library, and the Shaping of Historical Evidence (1987) (22)
Images of Power: Art and Pageantry in Renaissance Venice (1979) (21)
Social and Symbolic Places in Renaissance Venice and Florence (1989) (19)
The Virgin on the Street Corner: The Place of the Sacred in Italian Cities (1989) (18)
The justice of Venice : authorities and liberties in the urban economy, 1550-1700 (2006) (16)
The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera (2007) (14)
State Initiatives and Referenda on Bonds: A Comparative Analysis of One Solution for the School Infrastructure Crisis. (1999) (13)
Italy in the No Longer Forgotten Centuries (2013) (10)
Smaller Schools: How Much More than a Fad?. (2001) (10)
They Blinded Me with Political Science: On the Use of Nonpeer Reviewed Research in Education Policy (1999) (8)
Mad blood stirring : vendetta in Renaissance Italy (1998) (8)
The Double Binds of Manly Revenge (1994) (7)
Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective: Selections from Quaderni Storici (1990) (6)
Governments and Bureaucracies (2007) (6)
Was There Republicanism in the Renaissance Republics? Venice after Agnadello (2000) (6)
The West : Encounters and Transformations (2010) (5)
Drive-by deliveries. Influences on state legislators. (1997) (4)
The Eye of the Procession: Ritual Ways of Seeing in the Renaissance (2007) (4)
Presence and Representation in Italian Civic Rituals (2008) (4)
The West: Encounters & Transformations (2006) (3)
The Leopold von Ranke Manuscript Collection of Syracuse University: The Complete Catalogue (1983) (3)
CONSTITUENCY INTEREST AND CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE PRESIDENT ON FOREIGN TRADE ROLL-CALL VOTING (2008) (3)
Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method. By Carlo Ginzburg (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xvii plus 231 pp. $24.95) (1991) (3)
The Reformation of Ritual: An Interpretation of Early Modern Germany. (1999) (3)
Renaissance mass murder: civilians and soldiers during the Italian Wars (2020) (2)
In Some Neighbors We Trust: On the Exclusion of Women from the Public in Renaissance Italy (2008) (2)
The feuding spectrum: From the mountains of Albania to the court of Charles v (2017) (2)
Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence (review) (2009) (1)
Social Science Should Be a Process, Not a Bloody Shirt (2000) (1)
@`All the world's a stage...@': Art and pageantry in the Renaissance and Baroque. Part I, Triumphal Celebrations and the Rituals of Statecraft. Part 2, Theatrical Spectacle and Spectacular Theatre.Barbara Wisch , Susan Scott Munshower (1992) (1)
The West: The West: Encounters & Transformations, Atlas Edition, Combined Volume (2007) (1)
New light on old numbers: the political and cultural implications of Les Toscans et Leurs Familles. (1981) (1)
The Perlious Legacy of Civic Humanism in Seventeenth-Century Venice (2015) (1)
Representations of Power in Renaissance Italy (2004) (1)
Siena & the Sienese in the Thirteenth Century@@@Turin, 1564-1660: Urban Design, Military Culture, and the Creation of the Absolutist Capital (1993) (0)
Impertinent meddlers in state building: an anti-war movementin seventeenth-century Italy (2011) (0)
ONE. The Skeptics GALILEO’S TELESCOPE AND CREMONINI’S HEADACHE (2007) (0)
TWO. The Libertines THE CELESTIAL DIVORCE (2007) (0)
Fracture mechanics of bacterial colonies growing in soft gels (2021) (0)
MALE WITCHES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE (2019) (0)
Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome. By Pamela O. Long (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2018) 369 pp. $45.00 (2019) (0)
Old debates recycled (2009) (0)
signiacance lies in the processes of generational transition in a family, in the thin tissues of trust, and in the sinews of credit across society (2009) (0)
The Anthropology of Venice (2013) (0)
Government and Bureaucracies (2002) (0)
Introduction: Fifty Years of Interdisciplinary History 1970–2020 (2019) (0)
Patterns of Social Capital: The Sources of Civil Society in Italy (2000) (0)
Venturesome Capital: State Charter School Financing Systems Index (2009) (0)
Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial. R. Po-Chia HsiaFrom Bishop to Witch: The System of the Sacred in Early Modern Terra. d'Otranto., David Gentilcore (1995) (0)
Waving not drowning! (2001) (0)
The Financial Impact of Charter Schools on School Districts (2000) (0)
A 17th Century battle of wits: Libertines v Jesuits (2018) (0)
Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557–1789 (review) (2011) (0)
Index of Books (2001) (0)
The West: Encounters and Transformations, Combined Volume, Books a la Carte Edition (2016) (0)
On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy: Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards By Douglas Biow (review) (2016) (0)
The Doge as Primus Inter Pares: Ducal Interregnum Rites in Early Sixteenth-Century Venice (1978) (0)
State Finances and the Economy (2012) (0)
THREE. The Librettists POPPEA IN THE OPERA BOX (2007) (0)
Gaze and Touch: Ritual in the Renaissance and Reformation (1993) (0)
Donald E. Queller. The Venetian Patriciate: Reality versus Myth. Urbana-Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986. xiii + 388 pp. (1988) (0)
Iain Fenlon.The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xvi + 448 pp. index. illus. bibl. $50. ISBN: 978–0–300–11937–4. (2008) (0)
The West: Encounters & Transformations, Combined Volume (2010) (0)
On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy: Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards. By Douglas Biow (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) 311 pp. $55.00 (2016) (0)
An Evening at the Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice (2011) (0)
James S. Grubb, Firstborn of Venice: Vicenza in the Early Renaissance State . (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 106/3.) Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. Pp. xx, 238. (1990) (0)
Urbanism and Economics: Industrial Activities in Eighteenth- (2016) (0)
The West: Encounters & Transformations, Concise Edition, Combined Volume (2006) (0)
The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice (review) (2008) (0)
Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence. By Thomas Kuehn (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008) 237 pp. $60.00 (2009) (0)
Medieval and Early Modern (1995) (0)
Rona Goffen. Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Titian, and the Franciscans. New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 1986. 4 pls. + 59 figs. + xvii + 285 pp. $40. (1987) (0)
Vendetta and Love in Renaissance Italy (1994) (0)
The morality of doubt: The religious skeptics of seventeenth-century Venice (2019) (0)
Venice, Rome, and Garry Wills (2014) (0)
Ye Idea of Community in Renaissance ka (2016) (0)
“Trust among Merchants circa 1400,” in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italian City-State and Beyond: Essays in Honour of M. E. Bratchel (2012) (0)
Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome by Pamela O. Long (review) (2019) (0)
Trexleriana: An Introduction (2008) (0)

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