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Ronald Delph
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan
701-R Pray-Harrold
(734) 487-0053
rdelph@emich.edu
Biography:
Professor Delph teaches courses on Europe in the Middle Ages, and on European culture and society in the Renaissance and Reformation eras. His specialty is Renaissance Italy, and he frequently teaches his course, “Power, Place and Image in Florence and Rome,” in these two lovely Italian cities over winter break, accompanied by Eastern students.

His articles appear in the Encyclopedia of World History, and the Encyclopedia of the Reformation. Book reviews appear in Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook, Catholic Historical Review, and Sixteenth Century Journal.

 
Recent Publications:

“Emending and Defending the Vulgate Old Testament: Agostino Steuco’s Quarrel with Erasmus,” in Biblical Humanism and Scholasticism in the Age of Erasmus, ed. Erika Rummel, (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2008).

Heresy, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern Italy: Contexts and Contestations, ed. Ronald Delph, Michelle Fontaine, and John Martin (Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2006).

Renovatio, Reformatio, and Humanist Ambition in Rome,” in Religion and Culture in Early Modern Italy: Contexts and Contestations, ed. Ronald Delph, Michelle Fontaine, and John Martin (Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2006).

Russ Olwell and Ronald Delph, “Implementing Assessment and Improving Undergraduate Writing: One Department’s Experience,” History Teacher 38 (2004):21-35.

“Valla ‘Grammaticus’, Agostino Steuco and the Donation of Constantine,” Journal of the History of Ideas 57 (1996):55-77.

“From Venetian Visitor to Curial Humanist: The Development of Agostino Steuco’s Counter-Reformation Thought.” Renaissance Quarterly 47 (1994): 102-39.

“Curial Strategies for Polishing the Papal Image: The Case of Agostino Steuco,” Sixteenth-Century Journal 23 (1992): 35-74.