Personal Info

E-mail: howard.hotson(at)st-annes.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 274827

Academic Background:

BA (History and Philosophy, Trinity College, University of Toronto), DPhil (History, Corpus Christi College, Oxford). Post-doctoral fellowships: Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz; Brasenose College, Oxford; Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel; and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA. Before joining St Anne's in 2005, Howard Hotson taught at the University of Aberdeen.

Teaching Interests:

Early modern Europe (c. 1400-1750), with particular interest in intellectual history, including the Renaissance, Reformation, early modern science and the Enlightenment.

Research Interests:

His research focuses primarily on northern, Protestant Europe in this period, and especially on international intellectual developments affecting Germany between 1555 and 1660. He is currently working on traditions of intellectual innovations linking late Renaissance humanism to the 'new philosophies' of the 17th century and on a book on the revival of millenarianism in early modern Europe.

Selected Publications:

Howard Hotson, Commonplace Learning: Ramism and its German Ramifications, 1543-1630 [Oxford-Warburg Studies], 2007

Howard Hotson, Johann Heinrich Alsted 1588-1638: Between Renaissance, Reformation and Universal Reform [Oxford Historical Monographs], 2000

Howard Hotson, Paradise Postponed: Johann Heinrich Alsted and the Birth of Calvinist Millenarianism [International Archive of the History of Ideas, vol. 172], 2000

Howard Hotson, The Reformation of Common Learning: Post-Ramist Method and the Reception of the New Philosophy, 1618-1670 [Oxford-Warburg Studies], planned for 2010

Articles and Chapters:

Howard Hotson, ‘Anti-Semitism, Philo-Semitism, Apocalypticism and Millenarianism in Early Modern Europe: A Case Study and some Methodological Reflections’, in Alistair Chapman and John D. Coffey (eds.), Seeing Things Their Way: Intellectual History and Religious Belief, in press (planned for early 2009)

Howard Hotson, ‘Central Europe, 1550-1700’, in David Whitford (ed.), Reformation and Early Modern Europe: a Guide to Research III, 2008, 161-206

Howard Hotson, ‘The Instauration of the Image of God in Man: Humanist Anthropology, Encyclopaedic Pedagogy, Baconianism and Universal Reform’, in Margaret Pelling and Scott Mandelbrote (eds.), The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science 1500-2000: Essays for Charles Webster, 2005, 1-21

Howard Hotson, ‘Irenicism in the Confessional Age: the Holy Roman Empire, 1563-1648’, in Howard Louthan and Randall Zachman (eds.), Conciliation and Confession: Struggling for Unity in the Age of Reform, 1415-1648, 2004, 228-85

Howard Hotson, 'The Conservative Face of Contractual Theory: The Monarchomach Servants of the Count of Nassau-Dillenburg’, in Emilio Bonfatti, Giuseppe Duso and Merio Scattola (eds.), Politische Begriffe und historisches Umfeld in der Politica methodice digesta des Johannes Althusius [Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, Band 100], 2002, 251-89

Howard Hotson, ‘Arianism and Millenarianism: The Link between two Heresies from Servetus to Socinus’, in Richard H. Popkin and John Christian Laursen (eds.), Continental Millenarianism: Protestants, Catholics, Heretics [International Archive of the History of Ideas, vol. 176], 2001, 9-35

Howard Hotson, ‘Leibniz and Millenarianism’, in Stuart Brown (ed.), The Young Leibniz and his Philosophy, 1646-1676 [International Archive of the History of Ideas], 1999, 169-98

Howard Hotson, ‘The Historiographical Origins of Calvinist Mil­le­na­rianism’, in Bruce Gordon (ed.), Protestant History and Identity in Sixteenth-Century Europe [St Andrews Studies in Reformation History] 2 vols., 1996. Vol. II, 159-81

Howard Hotson, ‘Philosophical Pedagogy in Reformed Central Europe between Ramus and Comenius: A Survey of the Continental Background of the "Three Foreigners”.’ In Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation: Studies in Intellectual Communication, Mark Greengrass, Michael Leslie and Timothy Raylor (eds.), 1994, 29-50

Howard Hotson, ‘Johann Heinrich Alsted’s Relations with Silesia, Bohemia and Moravia: Patronage, Piety and Pansophia.’ Acta Comeniana, 12 (1997), 13-35

Howard Hotson, ‘Irenicism and Dogmatics in the Confessional Age: Pareus and Comenius in Heidelberg, 1614.’ The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 46.3 (July 1995), 432-53

Howard Hotson, ‘A Previously Unknown Early Work by Comenius: Disputatio de S. Domini Coena, sive Eucharistia under David Pareus, Heidelberg, 19 March 1614.’ Studia Comeniana et Historica, 24, c. 52 (1994), 129-44