Faculty Postholders
Dr Nicholas Davidson
M.A.
University Lecturer in the History of the Renaissance and Reformation
Email: nicholas.davidson@seh.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Nicholas Davidson has published on the social, cultural and religious history of Renaissance and early-modern Italy. He is currently completing a study of the Inquisition in Venice, and preparing a general history of Italy from 1500 to 1800.
Supervision Interests
Early-modern history, especially of Italy
Selected Publications:
- 'Unbelief and Atheism in Italy, 1500-1700' in Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment. (Oxford, 1992)
- 'Theology, Nature and the Law: Sexual Sin and Sexual Crime in Italy from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century' in Crime, Society and the Law in Renaissance Italy. (Cambridge, 1993)
- 'Christopher Marlowe and Atheism' in Christopher Marlowe and English Renaissance. (Aldershot, 1996) pp. 129-147
- 'As much for its culture as for its arms: the cultural relations of Venice and its dependent cities' in Mediterranean Urban Culture, 1400-1700. (Exeter, 2000) pp. 197-214, 264-270
- 'Toleration in Enlightenment Italy' in Toleration in Enlightenment Europe. (Cambridge, 2000) pp. 230-249
- 'Sodomy in early-modern Venice' in Sodomy and deviant sex in early modern Europe. (Manchester, 2002) pp. 65-81
- 'Fuggir la liberta della coscienza: Conscience and the Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Italy' in Contexts of Conscience in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700. (Basingstoke, 2004) pp. 49-55, 196-8
- 'Poor relief and health care in Southern Europe, 1700-1900: The ideological context' in Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th- and 19th-century Southern Europe. (Aldershot, 2005)
- 'Le plus beau et le plus meschant esprit que ie aye cogneu: Science and religion in the writings of Giulio Cesare Vanini, 1585-1619' in Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion. (Oxford, 2005) pp. 59-79
Future Publications:
- 'Religious Minorities' in The Renaissance World. (London, 2007) pp. 555-71
- The Venetian Inquisition. (2007)
- 'Sexual Abuse in Renaissance and Early-Modern Italy ' in Sexual Abuse: Adults' Minds and Children's Bodies. Historical Case Studies from the Ancient World to Modernity . (London, 2007)
- 'Censorship and the Venetian Inquisition' in . (2007)
- 'Deviants' in News on the Rialto? Identities and the Social Order in Renaissance Venice: Essays in honour of Professor Brian Pullan. (Manchester, 2008)
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