• George McClure
  Professor
  Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1981
  
  gmcclure@tenhoor.as.ua.edu
  
  Spring 2012 Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30-4:30

  Research Fields:

• Renaissance Italy:
• Humanism and the Consolatory Tradition;
• Professions and Popular Print Culture;
• Parlor Games and Female Agency.

Courses Recently Taught:

• Honors Western Civilization to 1648
• Renaissance Europe
• Reformation Europe
• Nature and the Environment in Western Thought
• Classics and Western Culture I (Homer to Dante) (in University Honors Program)
• Classics and Western Culture II (Machiavelli to Frankl)

Books:

• The Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004).


• Sorrow and Consolation in Italian Humanism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991).



Articles:

• "Heresy at Play: Academies and the Literary Underground in Counter-Reformation Siena." Renaissance Quarterly 63 (2010): 1151-1207.


• "Women and the Politics of Play in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Torquato Tasso's Theory of Games," Renaissance Quarterly 61 (2008): 750-791.


• "The Artes and the Ars moriendi in Late Renaissance Venice: The Professions in Fabio Glissenti's Discorsi morali contra il dispiacer del morire, detto Athanatophilia (1596)," Renaissance Quarterly 51 (1998): 92-127.


• "A Little-Known Renaissance Manual of Consolation: Nicolaus Modrussiensis' De consolatione (1465-1466)" in Supplementum Festivum: Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller, eds. J. Hankins, J. Monfasani, F. Purnell, Jr. (Binghamton, N.Y., 1987), 247-77.


• "The Art of Mourning: Autobiographical Writings on the Loss of a Son in Italian Humanist Thought (1400-1461)," Renaissance Quarterly 39 (1986): 440-75.


• "Healing Eloquence: Petrarch, Salutati, and the Physicians," Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 15 (1985): 317-46.



Grants, Awards, and Honors:

• Winner of the 1991 Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian Historical Studies for Sorrow and Consolation in Italian Humanism.