Dr. Ed Beemon

CONTACT:
E-mail: fbeemon@mtsu.edu
Phone: (615) 898-2627
Office Location: Peck Hall Room 237
MTSU Box 286
Murfreesboro, TN 37132

TEACHING FIELDS:
European Intellectual and Cultural and Early Modern Europe

COURSES:
European Intellectual and Cultural History, Reformation Europe, Historiography, England to 1783

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Ideologies generally, more specifically freedom of conscience and the ideological justification of revolutions in early modern European political cultures, also the formation of identities and the interchanges between learned and nonlearned cultures in early modern Europe.

OUTSIDE INTERESTS/PUBLIC SERVICE:
Active and frequent reviewer for western civilization textbooks and readers for Bedford/St. Martins. Done the same for Harcourt Brace, Houghton Mifflin and West Publishing.

PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER CREATIVE WORKS:
I have published articles or book reviews in Archive for Reformation History, Fides et Historia, Church History, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Dutch Crossings, and The Historian dealing with the ideological justification of the Dutch revolt and concepts of order; the formation of the identity of Phillip II; freedom on conscience in the revolt and the Dutch Republic; symbolism in popular Dutch literature; and the concept of sovereignty. I have presented papers on similar topics at Sixteenth Century Studies Conferences, the American Church History Society, and the American Catholic Historical Society. I have received grants to conduct research from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, and MTSU. I have also been a fellow at the Newberry Library.

WORK IN PROGRESS:
I am currently working on an intellectual/cultural biography of Philip de Marnix, Sieur de Sainte Aldegonde and an article on the establishing of the concept of sovereignty in the Dutch Republic entitled "From Lordship to Sovereignty: the Dutch Estates General and Foreign Princes."

EDUCATION:
Ph. D. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville