Harald E. Braun | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Scholasticism and Humanism in the Political Thought of Juan de Mariana, SJ : (1535-1624) (2000) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Liverpool |
| Notable works | Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought (2007) |
Harald Ernst Braun [1] FRHistS is a German historian of late medieval and early modern political culture emphasizing on the integration of political and intellectual history,theological-political discourse,Iberian empires and the Catholic world. He is a Reader in European History (1300-1700) at the University of Liverpool. [2] One of his major contributions has focused on the political thought of Spanish historian Juan de Mariana. [3]
Braun got an MA in History,Politics,and German Language and Literature at Heidelberg University,German. He received his D.Phil. on Early Modern Catholic Political Thought at the University of Oxford. He was a temporary Lecture at King's College London (KCL) and the London School of Economics (LSE) until he joined the Department of History at Liverpool in 2004. In 2017,Braun was a Visiting Professor at École Normale Superieur de Lyon. [2]
Braun is the founding editor of Routledge series of Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts:Connexions. He also is the founding editor of Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge,a book series of the Society for Renaissance Studies. [2] [4]
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