• George McClure
  Professor
  Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1981
  
  gmcclure@tenhoor.as.ua.edu
  
  Fall 2008 Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 3:30-4:30 p.m.
  

  Research Field:

• Renaissance Italy: humanism and the consolatory tradition; professions and popular print culture; parlor games and female agency.

Courses Recently Taught:

• Honors Western Civilization to 1648
• Renaissance Europe
• Reformation Europe
• Nature and the Environment in Western Thought
• Classics and Western Culture I (Homer to Dante) (in University Honors Program)
• Classics and Western Culture II (Machiavelli to Frankl)

Books:

• The Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy (University of Toronto Press, 2004).
• Sorrow and Consolation in Italian Humanism (Princeton University Press, 1991).
  

Articles:

• "Women and the Politics of Play in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Torquato Tasso’s Theory of Games," Renaissance Quarterly 61 (2008): 750-791.
• "The Artes and the Ars moriendi in Late Renaissance Venice: The Professions in Fabio Glissenti's Discorsi morali contra il dispiacer del morire, detto Athanatophilia (1596)," Renaissance Quarterly 51 (1998): 92-127.
• "A Little-Known Renaissance Manual of Consolation: Nicolaus Modrussiensis' De consolatione (1465-1466)" in Supplementum Festivum: Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller, eds. J. Hankins, J. Monfasani, F. Purnell, Jr. (Binghamton, N.Y., 1987), 247-77.
• "The Art of Mourning: Autobiographical Writings on the Loss of a Son in Italian Humanist Thought (1400-1461)," Renaissance Quarterly 39 (1986): 440-75.
• “Healing Eloquence: Petrarch, Salutati, and the Physicians,” Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 15 (1985): 317-46.

Grants, Awards, and Honors:

• Winner of the 1991 Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian Historical Studies for Sorrow and Consolation in Italian Humanism.