Contact:
Jason P. Coy, Assistant Professor
Email: coyj@cofc.edu
Department
of History
Office: Maybank 215
Hours: by appt.
Phone: 953-8273
JASON P. COY (Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Early Modern Germany) is an Assistant Professor of History who received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001. Professor Coy’s current research focuses on criminality and authority in Reformation-era Germany. His manuscript, on banishment practices in early modern Germany, is currently under contract and is scheduled for publication in 2008 in the Studies in European Histories series edited by Thomas Brady and Roger Chickering. Professor Coy also has articles forthcoming in the Sixteenth Century Journal and the Journal of Historical Sociology. Another article, entitled “Our Diligent Watchers and Informers: Denunciation, False Accusation, and the Limits of Authority in Early Modern Ulm,” is included in Mary Lindemann, ed., Ways of Knowing: Ten Interdisciplinary Essays (Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2004). He has conducted archival research in Germany with a University of California, Berkeley Center for German and European Studies research grant (1997), a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) annual award (1998-1999), and a Maria Sibylla Merian Fellowship for Postdoctoral Studies from the University of Erfurt, Germany (2002). Dr. Coy has begun preliminary research on a future project concerning sorcery, religiosity, and masculinity in Baroque Europe, a study that will be based upon Bartholomaeus Anhorn’s 1674 treatise, Magiologia
Newest Publication:
Due to be published at the end of 2008, Coy's law enforcement book is titled "Strangers and Misfits: Banishment, Social Control, and Authority in Early Modern Germany." He says it will be part of the "Studies in Central European Histories" series published by Brill Academic Press, a European scholarly press that's celebrating its 350-year anniversary in 2008.
About this book, his first, Coy says it "examines how early modern magistrates used banishment in an attempt to rid society of outsiders and criminals, how these efforts related to Reformation-era moral reforms, and how expelled offenders resisted these efforts. Before the widespread use of incarceration in the 18th century, authorities throughout Europe banished thousands of criminals and these sentences reveal a great deal about the role of popular cooperation in official law enforcement and social control efforts." .
Courses:
Baroque Europe
Italian Renaissance
Reformation Europe
Witchcraft in Europe & America
Renaissance
and Reformation
Courses:
Fall 2008:
HONS 120 D12, D22 MWF
HIST 336.001 Italian Renaissance
Spring 2009:
