Steven Ozment

Steven E. Ozment ( born February 21, 1939 in McComb, Mississippi) is an American historian, particularly of topics and Reformation Germany.

The McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University, is the father of five children and lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts with his wife Susan Schweizer, a manager at JP Morgan Chase.

Ozment taught at the University of Tübingen, Yale, Stanford and Harvard.

He has written ten books that have been translated into many languages. His Age of Reform, 1250-1550 (1980 ) won the Schaff History Prize (1981) and in 1981 was nominated for the National Book Award, five books were selected by the History Book Club.

He is currently studying Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Works

  • Homo spiritualis. A comparative study of the anthropology of Johannes Tauler, Jean Gerson and Martin Luther ( 1509-16 ) in the context of Their theological thought. E. J. Brill, Leiden 1969.
  • Edited by: Jean Gerson: Selections from A Deo exivit, Contra curiositatem studentium and De mystica theologia speculative. E. J. Brill, Leiden 1969.
  • Published by: The Reformation in Medieval Perspective. Quadrangle Books, Chicago 1971.
  • Mysticism and Dissent. Religious Ideology and Social Protest in the Sixteenth Century. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 1973.
  • The Reformation in the Cities. The Appeal of Protestantism to Sixteenth - Century Germany and Switzerland. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1975; In 1977.
  • The Age of Reform, 1250-1550. An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 1980; In 1981.
  • Edited: Reformation Europe. A Guide to Research. Center for Reformation Research, St. Louis, MO 1982.
  • When Fathers Ruled. Family Life in Reformation Europe. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1983; In 1985.
  • Magdalena and Balthasar. An Intimate Portrait of Life in 16th Century Europe Revealed in the Letters of a Nuremberg Husband and Wife. Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 1986; Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 1989.
  • Edited: Religion and Culture in the Renaissance and Reformation. Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Kirksville, MO in 1989.
  • Edited and Translated by: Three Behaim Boys. Growing Up in Early Modern Germany. A Chronicle of Their Lives. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 1990.
  • Protestants. The Birth Of a Revolution. Doubleday, New York, NY in 1993; 1994; Harper Collins, London, 1993.
  • The Mayor 's Daughter. Scandal in a Sixteenth - Century German Town. St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 1996; Harper Collins, New York, NY 1997.
  • Flesh and Spirit. A Study of Private Life in Early Modern Germany. Viking / Penguin, New York, NY in 1999; , 2001.
  • Ancestors. The Loving Family in Old Europe. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001.
  • A Mighty Fortress. A New History of the German People. Harper Collins, New York, NY 2004; 2005; Granta, London, 2005.
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