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Biography

Christendom College - History

Associate Professor of History at Christendom College
Higher Education
Christopher J.
Lane, PhD
Front Royal, Virginia
I am a historian of early modern Europe, and I enjoy teaching a variety of courses, including a core curriculum stretching from antiquity through our present-day global modernity, as well as electives on topics such as the history of Catholicism in Asia, the French Revolution, and early modern religious culture.

My current book project focuses on cultures of vocation in seventeenth-century France, especially young people's choices of a state of life (marriage, the clerical state, or religious vows). Through the study of past understandings of what it means to be called to a stable commitment, we can better equip ourselves to answer questions about freedom, social order, and the purpose and place of individuals in communities.

I also serve as Christendom's Director of Fellowship Advising, helping students to identify and apply for competitive study and service opportunities such as the Fulbright program and the Critical Language Scholarship.

Experience

  • Christendom College

    Director of Fellowship Advising

    Christopher worked at Christendom College as a Director of Fellowship Advising

  • Christendom College

    Associate Professor of History

    Assistant Professor, 2013-2018
    Visiting Lecturer, 2012-2013

Education

  • University of Notre Dame

    Master of Arts - MA

    History

  • University of Notre Dame

    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

    History

  • Saint Louis University

    Master of Arts - MA

    History

Publications

  • Review of Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing: 'Christianity is Strange', by Richard Parish

    Sixteenth Century Journal

  • Review of Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing: 'Christianity is Strange', by Richard Parish

    Sixteenth Century Journal

  • Vocational Freedom, Parental Authority, and Pastoral Persuasion in Seventeenth-Century France

    Journal of Ecclesiastical History

    Could freedom to choose marriage or a religious vocation be reconciled with parental involvement in that choice? In seventeenth-century France, clerical advice to young adults on choosing a state of life navigated the tension between a theological commitment to liberty and societal norms of parental authority.

  • Review of Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing: 'Christianity is Strange', by Richard Parish

    Sixteenth Century Journal

  • Vocational Freedom, Parental Authority, and Pastoral Persuasion in Seventeenth-Century France

    Journal of Ecclesiastical History

    Could freedom to choose marriage or a religious vocation be reconciled with parental involvement in that choice? In seventeenth-century France, clerical advice to young adults on choosing a state of life navigated the tension between a theological commitment to liberty and societal norms of parental authority.

  • Review of Fealty and Fidelity: The Lazarists of Bourbon France, 1660-1736, by Seán Alexander Smith

    Sixteenth Century Journal

  • Review of Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing: 'Christianity is Strange', by Richard Parish

    Sixteenth Century Journal

  • Vocational Freedom, Parental Authority, and Pastoral Persuasion in Seventeenth-Century France

    Journal of Ecclesiastical History

    Could freedom to choose marriage or a religious vocation be reconciled with parental involvement in that choice? In seventeenth-century France, clerical advice to young adults on choosing a state of life navigated the tension between a theological commitment to liberty and societal norms of parental authority.

  • Review of Fealty and Fidelity: The Lazarists of Bourbon France, 1660-1736, by Seán Alexander Smith

    Sixteenth Century Journal

  • Review of On Time, Punctuality, and Discipline in Early Modern Calvinism, by Max Engammare

    Sixteenth Century Journal

  • Review of Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing: 'Christianity is Strange', by Richard Parish

    Sixteenth Century Journal

  • Vocational Freedom, Parental Authority, and Pastoral Persuasion in Seventeenth-Century France

    Journal of Ecclesiastical History

    Could freedom to choose marriage or a religious vocation be reconciled with parental involvement in that choice? In seventeenth-century France, clerical advice to young adults on choosing a state of life navigated the tension between a theological commitment to liberty and societal norms of parental authority.

  • Review of Fealty and Fidelity: The Lazarists of Bourbon France, 1660-1736, by Seán Alexander Smith

    Sixteenth Century Journal

  • Review of On Time, Punctuality, and Discipline in Early Modern Calvinism, by Max Engammare

    Sixteenth Century Journal

  • Gentle Holiness in the Vocational Culture of Seventeenth-Century French Visitandine Nuns

    in Jenni Kuuliala,Rose-Marie Peake, and Päivi Räisänen-Schröder, eds., Lived Religion and Everyday Life in Early Modern Hagiographic Material (Palgrave, forthcoming 2019).

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