
Duncan Hardy, Ph.D.
Duncan Hardy is a historian of Central
Europe - broadly defined - in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.
He specializes in the history of the Holy Roman Empire - the vast entity at the
heart of medieval and early modern Europe, which encompassed all or part of more than a
dozen modern European countries. More generally, he is interested in models of state/polity formation and the
debates around long-term political change in medieval and early modern Europe;
religious conflicts and the late medieval and early modern Crusades; the
history of diplomacy; the long history of the Reformation(s); and the comparative study of political cultures.
He has just finished writing up his first book, Associative Political Culture in
the Holy Roman Empire: Upper Germany, 1346-1521. It argues that the political landscape of the Holy Roman Empire is best understood as a
nexus of intertwined networks, formalized by and within leagues, alliances, and
assemblies, challenging conventional interpretations of the Empire and European models of state formation more generally. His second project, which is in its preliminary research phase,
examines processes of political and religious change, and particularly emerging
concepts of reform, within the loose and multilateral framework of the Empire
in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with a view to rethinking the early
Reformation in light of its political context.
Before joining the UCF Department of History, Duncan Hardy undertook undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Oxford. He then held research fellowships at the Institute of Historical Research within the University of London and at the Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. In 2016 he was elected as a Title A Research Fellow at Trinity College in the University of Cambridge, a fellowship he will hold until 2022. Since 2020 he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Education
- Ph.D. in History [D.Phil.] from University of Oxford (2015)
Research Interests
Early Modern Europe; Late Medieval Europe; Reformation History; Political History; German History; Central Europe; Holy Roman Empire; Political Culture.
Selected Publications
Books
Articles/Essays
- “Landfrieden,”
in Handbuch Frieden im Europa der Frühen Neuzeit / Handbook of Peace in
Early Modern Europe, ed. Irene Dingel, Michael Rohrschneider, Inken
Schmidt-Voges, Siegrid Westphal, and Joachim Whaley (Berlin: De Gruyter
Oldenbourg, 2021), pp. 151-169.
- “Tage (Courts, Councils, and Diets):
Political and Judicial Nodal Points in the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1300-1550,” German History, 36 (3) (2018): 381-400.
- “The Emperorship of Sigismund of Luxemburg
(1410-37): Charisma and Government in the Later Medieval Holy Roman Empire,” in Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in
Byzantium and the Medieval West, ed. Brigitte
M. Bedos-Rezak and Martha D. Rust (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 282-314.
- “Between
Regional Alliances and Imperial Assemblies: Landfrieden
as a Political Concept and Discursive Strategy in the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1350-1520,” in Landfrieden
– epochenübergreifend. Neue
Perspektiven der Landfriedensforschung auf Verfassung, Recht, Konflikt, ed. Hendrik Baumbach and Horst Carl,Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung.
Beihefte, 54 (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2018), pp. 85-120.
- “Burgundian
Clients in the South-Western Holy Roman Empire, 1410-1477: Between
International Diplomacy and Regional Political Culture,” in Practices of Diplomacy in the
Early Modern World, c. 1410-1800, ed. Tracey A. Sowerby and Jan Hennings, Routledge
Research in Early Modern History series (Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2017),
pp. 25-43.
- “An
Alsatian Nobleman’s Account of the Second Crusade against the Hussites in 1421:
A New Edition, Translation, and Interpretation,” Crusades, 15 (2016): 199-221.
- “Reichsstädtische
Bündnisse im Elsass als Beweise für eine “verbündende” politische Kultur am
Oberrhein (ca. 1350-1500),” Zeitschrift
für die Geschichte des Oberrheins, 162 (2014): 95-128.
- “The
Hundred Years War and the ‘Creation’ of the Written English Vernacular: A
Reassessment,” Marginalia, 17 (2013):
18-31.
- “The
1444-5 Expedition of the Dauphin Louis to the Upper Rhine in Geopolitical
Perspective,” Journal of Medieval History,
38 (3) (2012): 358-387.
Book Reviews
- Review of Joachim Schneider, Eberhard
Windeck und sein “Buch von Kaiser Sigmund”: Studien zu Entstehung, Funktion und
Verbreitung einer Königschronik im 15. Jahrhundert. Geschichtliche Landeskunde (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner
Verlag, 2018), The Medieval Review (2020): 20.08.37.
- Review of Alexander Kagerer, Macht und Medien um
1500: Selbstinszenierung und Legimitationsstrategien von Habsburgern und
Fuggern (Berlin: De Gruyer Oldenbourg, 2017), English Historical Review, 135 (573) (2020): 475-477.
- Review of Konstanz und der Südwesten des Reiches im hohen und späten Mittelalter. Festschrift für Helmut Maurer zum 80. Geburtstag, ed. Harald Derschka, Jürgen Klöckler, and Thomas Zotz (Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2017), Renaissance Quarterly, 72 (2019): 664-66.
- Review of (Un)Gleiche Kurfürsten? Die Pfalzgrafen bei Rhein und die Herzöge von
Sachsen im späten Mittelalter (1356–1547), ed. Jens Klingner and
Benjamin Müsegades (Memmingen: Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2017), Speculum, 94 (1) (2019): 237-39.
- Review of Monumenta Germaniae Historica:
Constitutiones et Acta Publica Imperatorum et Regum. Dokumente zur Geschichte des Deutschen Reiches und Seiner Verfassung
1360, ed. Ulrike Hohensee, Mathias Lawo, Michael Lindner, and Olaf B. Rader
(Wiesbaden: Harrassowiz, 2016), The Medieval Review (2019): 19.01.03.
- Review of Regesta Imperii XIII:
Regesten Kaiser Friedrichs III. (1440–1493). Nach Archiven und Bibliotheken
geordnet. Heft 31: Die Urkunden und Briefe aus den Archiven und Bibliotheken
der deutschen Bundesländer Bremen, Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein sowie der
skandinavischen Länder,
ed. Eberhard Holtz
(Vienna/Cologne/Weimar: Böhlau, 2016),
English Historical Review, 133 (565) (2018): 1598-99.
- Review of Sandro Liniger, Gesellschaft in der Zerstreuung. Soziale Ordnung und
Konflikt im frühneuzeitlichen Graubünden (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck,
2017), German History, 36 (4) (2018):
630-32.
- Review of Annexer? Les déplacements de frontières à la fin du Moyen Âge, ed. Stéphane Péquignot and Pierre Savy (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2016), English Historical Review, 133 (562) (2018): 690-92.
- Review of Christian Hoffarth, Urkirche als Utopie. Die Idee der Gütergemeinschaft im späteren Mittelalter von Olivi bis Wyclif (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2016), Renaissance Quarterly, 71 (2018): 340-42.
- Review of Konstantin Langmaier, Erzherzog
Albrecht VI. von Österreich (1418-1463): Ein Fürst im Spannungsfeld von
Dynastie, Regionen und Reich (Cologne: Böhlau, 2015), English Historical
Review, 132 (556) (2017): 689-92.
- Review of Christian Heinemeyer, Zwischen Reich und
Region im Spätmittelalter: Governance und politische Netzwerke um Kaiser
Friedrich III. und Kurfürst Albrecht Achilles von Brandenburg (Berlin:
Duncker & Humblot, 2016), German History, 35 (2) (2017): 312-14.
- Review
of Nils Bock, Die Herolde im
römisch-deutschen Reich: Studie zur adligen Kommunikation im späten Mittelalter
(Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2015), German
History, 34 (2) (2016): 324-26.
- Review
of Andreas Würgler, Die Tagsatzung der
Eidgenossen. Politik, Kommunikation und Symbolik einer repräsentativen
Institution im europäischen Kontext (1470-1798) (Warendorf: bibliotheca
academica Verlag, 2013), English
Historical Review, 130 (546) (2015): 1223-25.
- Review
of Benjamin Müsegades, Fürstliche
Erziehung und Ausbildung im spätmittelalterlichen Reich (Ostfildern:
Thorbecke, 2014), German History, 33
(2) (2015): 280-81.
Awards
- 2020: Royal Historical Society - Fellowship
- 2019: Royal Historical Society - Gladstone Prize
- 2019: UCF Department of History - Pauley Travel Award
- 2017: Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe - Johann Daniel Schöpflin Prize
- 2016: German History Society - German History Society Prize
- 2016-20: Trinity College, University of Cambridge - Title A Research Fellowship
- 2015-16: Wiener-Anspach Foundation - Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2014-15: Institute of Historical Research, University of London - Scouloudi Fellowship
- 2014: German History Society - Annual Postgraduate Bursary
- 2014: University of Oxford, Faculty of History - Bryce Research Studentship
- 2012/2014: Jesus College, University of Oxford - T.E. Lawrence Award for Mediaeval History
- 2011-14: UK Arts and Humanities Research Council - Doctoral Award
Courses
Course Number |
Course |
Title |
Mode |
Date and Time |
Syllabus |
10312 |
EUH2000 |
Western Civilization Ⅰ |
World Wide Web (W) |
|
Unavailable |
No Description Available |
11139 |
EUH2000 |
Western Civilization Ⅰ |
World Wide Web (W) |
|
Unavailable |
No Description Available |
19493 |
EUH4131 |
European Warfare |
Video Strmng (V1) COVD DL exmp |
M 03:00 PM - 04:15 PM |
Unavailable |
No Description Available |
Course Number |
Course |
Title |
Mode |
Date and Time |
Syllabus |
92452 |
EUH2000 |
Western Civilization Ⅰ |
World Wide Web (W) |
|
Unavailable |
No Description Available |
81688 |
EUH3142 |
Renaissance and Reformation |
World Wide Web (W) |
|
Unavailable |
No Description Available |
No courses found for Summer 2020.
Updated: Feb 20, 2021