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United States
- Ph.D., UNC at Chapel Hill, 1993
BIO
After growing up in New York, Charlie Briggs majored in history at Grinnell College in Iowa, before going on to receive his M.Litt. from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1993). After a decade and a half of teaching and administration at Georgia Southern University, where he was Professor of History, Briggs returned to the more amenable climes and landscape of the Northeast. A specialist in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe in the thirteenth through early sixteenth centuries, he teaches courses in late medieval and early modern European history, global history, historical methods, and the history of the book.
Briggs has published numerous books, articles, and chapters in the field of medieval and early Renaissance European intellectual culture, political thought, and historical writing. His current book project is a reassessment of the history of early Renaissance humanism, tentively titled Reframing Early Humanism: Scholasticism, Classicism, and the Languages of Politics, 1260–1350.
In addition to receiving research funding from the American Philosophical Society, he has been a Leslie Humanities Fellow at Dartmouth College, a Mellon Fellow at Saint Louis University, and Starr Foundation Visiting Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. In December 2011 he was named a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and in 2017 he was named UVM’s inaugural President’s Distinguished Senior Lecturer. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh during Spring term 2024.
Courses
- HST-2721
- HST-4720
- HCOL-1500
Publications
Area(s) of expertise
Intellectual & cultural history of later medieval Europe, world history and early European history.
Bio
After growing up in New York, Charlie Briggs majored in history at Grinnell College in Iowa, before going on to receive his M.Litt. from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1993). After a decade and a half of teaching and administration at Georgia Southern University, where he was Professor of History, Briggs returned to the more amenable climes and landscape of the Northeast. A specialist in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe in the thirteenth through early sixteenth centuries, he teaches courses in late medieval and early modern European history, global history, historical methods, and the history of the book.
Briggs has published numerous books, articles, and chapters in the field of medieval and early Renaissance European intellectual culture, political thought, and historical writing. His current book project is a reassessment of the history of early Renaissance humanism, tentively titled Reframing Early Humanism: Scholasticism, Classicism, and the Languages of Politics, 1260–1350.
In addition to receiving research funding from the American Philosophical Society, he has been a Leslie Humanities Fellow at Dartmouth College, a Mellon Fellow at Saint Louis University, and Starr Foundation Visiting Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. In December 2011 he was named a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and in 2017 he was named UVM’s inaugural President’s Distinguished Senior Lecturer. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh during Spring term 2024.
Courses
- HST-2721
- HST-4720
- HCOL-1500
Publications
Areas of Expertise
Intellectual & cultural history of later medieval Europe, world history and early European history.