Assoc Prof Peter Howard - Researcher Profile

Biography

I hold a PhD in history from Monash University (1991), and have also completed advanced studies in theology through the Melbourne College of Divinity and Corpus Christi College (1972–1980). I began teaching at Monash in 1995, specializing in courses related to the Florentine Renaissance, and Europe more generally. I have made particular contributions as chair of undergraduate and postgraduate coursework committees, establishing agreed graduate outcomes, curriculum reviews, tutor induction and support, and promoting student-centred learning through a variety of assessment, tutorial and lecturing strategies.

I have held fellowships at the European University Institute, Florence, and at 'Villa I Tatti': the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Florence), where in 2007 I was Lila Wallace Readers Digest Visiting Professor. I have spent a period as a visiting scholar at the Istituto per le Scienze Religiose in Bologna.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1991

THEOLOGY

Institution: Melbourne College of Divinity

Year awarded: 1982

Publications

Books

Howard, P.F., 2012, Creating Magnificence in Renaissance Florence, CRRS Publications, Toronto, Canada.

Howard, P.F., Troup, C. (eds), 2000, Cultures sof devotion: studies in medieval and renaissance religion, School of Historical Studies, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Howard, P., 1995, Beyond the Written Word: Preaching and Theology in the Florence of Archbishop Antoninus, 1427-1459, Leo S Olschki, Florence Italy.

Book Chapters

Howard, P., 2012, Preaching to the mob: Space, ideas and persuasion in renaissance Florence, in Mobs: An interdisciplinary Inquiry, eds Nancy van Deusen and Leonard Michael Koff, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 203-229.

Howard, P.F., 2012, Preaching, brotherhoods, and biblical literacy: The case of Pietro Bernardo of Florence, in Faith's Boundaries: Laity and Clergy in Early Modern Confraternities, eds Nicholas Terpstra, Adriano Prosperi and Stefania Pastore, Brepols, Turnhout Belgium, pp. 113-129.

Howard, P., 2011, Bound by words: Creating belief and community in Renaissance Florence, in Brotherhood and Boundaries. Fraternita e barriere, eds Stefania Pastore, Adriano Prosperi and Nicholas Terpstra, Edizioni della Normale, Pisa Italy, pp. 249-257.

Howard, P., 2011, 'Doctrine, when preached, is entirely civic': The generation of public theology and the role of the Studia of Florence, in Communities of Learning: Networks and the Shaping of Intellectual Identity in Europe, 1100-1500, eds Constant J. Mews and John N. Crossley, Brepols, Turnhout Belgium, pp. 293-314.

Howard, P.F., 2008, Australian clergy in Italy after Vatican II, in Australians in Italy: Contemporary Lives and Impressions, eds Bill Kent, Ros Pesman and Cynthia Troup, Monash University ePress, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 14.1-14.16.

Howard, P.F., 2008, Preaching the Liturgy in Renaissance Florence, in Predication et liturgie au Moyen Age, eds Nicole Beriou and Franco Morenzoni, Brepols, Belgium, pp. 313-333.

Howard, P.F., 2007, 'The womb of memory': Carmelite Liturgy and the Frescoes of the Brancacci Chapel, in The Brancacci Chapel: Form, Function and Setting., eds Nicholas A Eckstein, Leo S Olschki, Florence, pp. 177-206.

Howard, P.F., 2006, The aural space of the sacred in Renaissance Florence, in Renaissance Florence: a social history, eds Roger J. Crum and John T. Paoletti., Cambridge University Press, New York USA, pp. 376-393.

Howard, P.F., 2005, The fear of schism, in Rituals, images and words: the varieties of cultural expression in late medieval and early modern Europe, eds F W Kent and Charles Zika, Brepols, Belgium, pp. 297-323.

Howard, P.F., 2004, Sermons Reflecting Upon their World(s): A response to Stephen Morris, Wim Verbaal, Eve Salisbury and Emily Michelson, in Speculum Sermonis: interdisciplinary reflections on the medieval sermon, eds Georgiana Donavin, Cary J. Nederman & Richard Utz, Brepols, Turnhout Belgium, pp. 179-194.

Howard, P.F., 2000, The politics of devotion: preaching, piety and public life at San Lorenzo, in Cultures of devotion: studies in medieval and renaissance religion, eds Peter Howard and Cynthia Troup, Monash Publications in History, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 29-42.

Howard, P., 1998, Diversity in Discourse: The Preaching of Archbishop Antoninus of Florence Before Pope, People and Commune, in Medieval Sermons and Society: Cloister, City, University, Federation Int. des Instituts d'Etudes Medievales, Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium, pp. 283-307.

Journal Articles

Howard, P., 2011, Painters and the visual art of preaching: The exemplum of the fifteenth-century frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, I Tatti Studies: essays in the Renaissance [P], vol 13, Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki, Italy, pp. 33-77.

Howard, P.F., 2010, 'You cannot sell liberty for all the gold there is': promoting good governance in early Renaissance Florence, Renaissance Studies [P], vol 24, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell, UK, pp. 207-233.

Howard, P.F., 2008, Preaching magnificence in Renaissance Florence, Renaissance Quarterly, vol 61, issue 2, University of Chicago Press, USA, pp. 325-369.

Howard, P.F., 2005, Obituary: Ian Robertson (1935-2004), Renaissance Studies, vol 19, issue 2, Oxford University Press, Oxford England UK, pp. 229-233.

Howard, P.F., 2004, The impact of preaching in Renaissance Florence: Fra Niccolo da Pisa at San Lorenzo, Medieval Sermon Studies, vol 48, Maney Publishing, UK, pp. 29-44.

Howard, P., 1999, The Y2K Millennium: the end of history, again, Arena Magazine, vol 44, Arena Printing and Publishing Pty. Ltd., Fitzroy Vic Australia, pp. 32-33.

Conference Proceedings

Howard, P.F., 2001, 'Leoni Superbi': I Fiorentini, L'Arcivescovo Antonino e La Sua Predicazione in Duomo', La Cattedralie e La Citta: Saggi Sul Duomo Di Firenze, 16-21 June 1997, EDIFIR (Edizioni Firenze), Florence Italy, pp. 495-509.

Other

Howard, P., 1997, A View from the Precipice, Article.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

"Benedetto Dei and Fifteenth Century Florence"..

Supervisors:

James, C (Main), Howard, P (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

A Revisionist Study of the Late Medieval and Renaissance Florentine Family through Private Letters.

Supervisors:

James, C (Main), Howard, P (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

A comparative analysis of te visual expression of light as symbol and metaphor in mythology and sacred text.

Supervisors:

Howard, P (Main), Monagle, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Defining the concert Mass.

Supervisors:

Garrioch, D (Main), Howard, P (Associate), Watt, P (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

From Liege to Lyon and beyond: The exemplarity and the order of preachers..

Supervisors:

Howard, P (Main), Mews, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Housing the popes: Florence and the papacy in the 1430s.

Supervisors:

Howard, P (Main), James, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Judging the Fall: Religious Representations of Eve in Fifteenth- to Sixteenth-Century Italy.

Supervisors:

Howard, P (Main), Cassidy-Welch, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Prato: Urban Identity Within the Fifteenth-Century Florentine Territory.

Supervisors:

Howard, P (Main), James, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Rabbinic exegetical responses to Christianity in Midrash Psalms.

Supervisors:

Howard, P (Main), Fagenblat, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Religious Beliefs and the Practice of Piracy.

Supervisors:

Howard, P (Main), Monagle, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Rome burns brightly still: contextualising Gildas?s De Excidio Britanniae.

Supervisors:

Mews, C (Main), Howard, P (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The law of love: Luther?s application of scriptural law to sexual matters.

Supervisors:

Howard, P (Joint-co), Monagle, C (Joint).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The social dynamics of the movement for Catholic reform in Rome of the early sixteenth century.

Supervisors:

Howard, P (Main), Monagle, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The wound of love: A symbol for union with Christ.

Supervisors:

Howard, P (Main), Monagle, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Thinking about silk in Renaissance Florence.

Supervisors:

Howard, P (Main), James, C (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Deverell, G.

Program of Study:

THE BONDS OF FREEDOM: VOWS, SACRAMENTS AND THE FORMATION OF THE CHRISTIAN SELF. (PHD) 2004.

Supervisors:

Howard, P (Main).

Student:

Hewlett, C.

Program of Study:

RURAL COMMUNITIES AND RENAISSANCE FLORENCE: AUTONOMY AND INTERDEPENDENCE (1480-1550). (PHD) 2003.

Supervisors:

Kent, F (Main), Howard, P (Associate).

Student:

Hodge, J.

Program of Study:

Slender Bonds and Bitter Seas: Mary Magdalen in Mendicant Literature and Imagery. (Masters) 2004.

Supervisors:

Howard, P (Main), Mews, C (Associate).

Student:

Laufer, C.

Program of Study:

Descendit Ad Inferna: western interpretations of the credal affirmation, "He descended to the dead". (PHD) 2007.

Supervisors:

Mews, C (Main), Howard, P (Associate).

Student:

Luttick, J.

Program of Study:

Purity, anti-Judaism and contemporary biblical interpretation. (Masters) 2012.

Supervisors:

Howard, P (Main), Fagenblat, M (Associate).

Student:

Madden, W.

Program of Study:

'SHINING VIRTUE': VERONICA GAMBARA - THE LADY OF CORREGGIO . (Masters) 2003.

Supervisors:

Howard, P (Main).

Student:

Monagle, C.

Program of Study:

Bookish Heresy : The trial of Gilbert of Poitiers and its narrations. (Masters) 2000.

Supervisors:

Mews, C (Main), Howard, P (Associate).

Student:

Nowicki, F.

Program of Study:

Ritual, music, and the Council of Florence: a cultural encounter between East and West. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Kent, F (Main), Kent, F (Main), Howard, P (Joint-Co), Williams, C (Associate), Howard, P (Associate), Williams, C (Associate).

Student:

Oppel, C.

Program of Study:

A THEOLOGY OF TEARS FROM AUGUSTINE TO THE EARLY THIRTEENTH CENTURY. (PHD) 2002.

Supervisors:

Mews, C (Main), Howard, P (Associate).

Student:

Price, P.

Program of Study:

Intellectual orthodoxy and political stability: English Catholics and the politics of Papal Sovereignty, 1848-1878. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Howard, P (Main), Monagle, C (Associate).

Student:

Rocke, S.

Program of Study:

The Armed Man: A Mass for a Secular Age. (Masters) 2010.

Supervisors:

Howard, P (Joint), Mews, C (Joint-Co), Reiner, T (Associate).

Student:

Rosenthal, D.

Program of Study:

States of the imagination: kingship, class and ritual in early modern Florence. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Kent, F (Main), Howard, P (Associate).

Student:

Vodola, M.

Program of Study:

John XXIII, Vatican II, and the genesis of Aggiornamento: a contextual analysis of Angelo Roncalli's works on San Carlo Borromeo in relation to late twentieth century church reform. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Howard, P (Main), Monagle, C (Associate).

Student:

Wilksch, D.

Program of Study:

THOMAS MORE'S RICHARD III. (Masters) 1999.

Supervisors:

Mews, C (Main), Howard, P (Main), Dilnot, A (Associate).