Profile Information
Thomas J. Kuehn
Professor (Protestant Reformation)
Contact
Department of History
Office: 116 Hardin Hall
Phone: (864) 656-5361
Website: http://people.clemson.edu/~tjkuehn/
Email: tjkuehn@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago (1977)
Courses
Aspects of family life and kinship in Italy between 1300 and 1600
Professor Kuehn, who came to Clemson in 1981, taught courses in the Renaissance, the Reformation, and Medieval History, and is a specialist in the legal and social culture of Renaissance Italy. His books include Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence (2002), Law, Family, and Women (1991), and an edited collection, Time, Space, and Women’s Lives in Early Modern Europe (2001).
In 2003, Professor Kuehn was awarded with a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which he used to study repudiated inheritances in Renaissance Florence. His book Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence (2008), won the American Historical Association annual "Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize" for the best work in any epoch of Italian history, Italian cultural history, or Italian-American relations in 2009. Professor Kuehn's new book, Family and Gender in Renaissance Italy, 1300-1600 , is forthcoming.
For Dr. Kuehn’s course syllabi, curriculum vitae, and other useful resources, please visit his webpage at http://people.clemson.edu/~tjkuehn/.
Selected Professional Works
Books (Published)
Family and Gender in Renaissance Italy, 1300-1600. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
A Renaissance of Conflicts: Visions and Revisions of Law and Society in Italy and Spain Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, 2004.
Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence. University of Michigan Press, 2002.
Time, Space and Women’s Lives in Early Modern Europe. Truman State Univ Press, 2001.
Law, Family, and Women: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Renaissance Italy ( 1991).
Emancipation in Late Medieval Florence (1982)
