Prof. Dr. Bruce Gordon

Professor

Kirchengeschichte

Yale Divinity School

Research and projects

Current position(s)

Professor of Church History, Yale Divinity School

Current project(s)

Biography of Huldrych Zwingli
The Protestant Latin Bibles of the Sixteenth Century

Former position(s)

Professor of Early Modern History, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Publications

Monographs (and dissertation)

1. John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. A Biography, (Princeton University Press, 2016) in the series ‘The Lives of Great Religious Books’, 264pp.
2. Calvin (Yale University Press, 2009), 416pp.
3. The Swiss Reformation (Manchester University Press, 2002), 368pp.
4. Clerical Discipline and the Rural Reformation. The Synod in Zurich, 1532-1580 (Peter Lang, Zürcher Beiträge zur Reformationsgeschichte, vol. 16, Bern, 1992), 297pp.

Edited volumes

1. Following Zwingli. Applying the Past in Reformation Zurich, Luca
Bascera, Bruce Gordon and Christian Moser (eds), (Ashgate Press, 2014), 320pp.
2. Shaping the Bible in the Reformation. Books, Scholars and their Readers in the Sixteenth Century, edited with Mathew McLean (Brill, Library of the Written Word, 2012), 343pp.
3. Architect of Reformation. An Introduction to Heinrich Bullinger, 1504-1575, edited with Emidio Campi (Baker Academic, 2004), 300pp.
4. The Place of the Dead in Late Mediaeval and Early Modern Europe, edited with Peter Marshall (Cambridge University Press, 2000), 324pp.
5. Protestant History and Identity in Sixteenth-Century Europe, 2 vols. edited (Scolar Press, 1996). Reprinted 1998. Second reprinting 1999, vol 1, 194pp. vol 2, 202pp.

Areas of research

Religious history of the Early Modern Period; the Reformation; Book History, and Cultures of Death and Dying.

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