History

Education

• B.A., Western Michigan University
• M.A., University of Michigan
• Ph.D., University of Michigan

Interests and Expertise

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.

Courses

• HIST 101 Western Civilization to 1648
• HIST 102 Western Civilization 1648–WWII
• HIST 110 World Civilization since 1500
• HIST 300 Research and Writing History
• HIST 327 Europe in the Early Middle Ages 400–1050
• HIST 328 Europe in the Later Middle Ages 1050–1400
• HIST 329 Power, Place and Image in Florence and Rome
• HIST 330 Renaissance and Reformation Europe
• HIST 503 Rogue Queens of Early Modern Europe
• HIST 504 The European Witch Craze
• HIST 505 Historical Methods
• HIST 506 Europe and the Crusades
• HIST 514 Renaissance and Reformation Europe
• HIST 516 Medieval and Renaissance Florence and Rome

Publications and Presentations

• "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.

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