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Dr. Majorie Elizabeth Plummer
meplummer@arizona.edu
Plummer, Marjorie Elizabeth
Susan C. Karant Nunn Chair and Professor

Dr. Beth Plummer is the Susan C. Karant Nunn Chair in Reformation and Early Modern European History and Professor of History. Her research focuses on the impact of early modern religious reform movements on family and gender roles, the changing legal definitions of social norms and religious identity, and on tolerance, intolerance, and coexistence in early modern Germany. She teaches courses on Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Popular Religion in Pre-modern Europe, and Early Modern Monasticism.

Currently Teaching

RELI 408 – The Renaissance

Europe between the 14th and 16th centuries with special emphasis on Italy as the seat of the Renaissance. Topics include the city states, humanism, the Church in an age of Schism and secularization, Renaissance art, the New Monarchies and European exploration and imperialism.

Europe between the 14th and 16th centuries with special emphasis on Italy as the seat of the Renaissance. Topics include the city states, humanism, the Church in an age of Schism and secularization, Renaissance art, the New Monarchies and European exploration and imperialism.