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Faculty Profile
Terpstra, Nicholas, Ph.D. Toronto
Professor, St. George Campus
(416) 585-4428
Office: NF 202
Field: Renaissance and early modern Italy, social and political history, reform movements
Professor Terpstra is a specialist in the social history of Renaissance and early modern Italy. He has published extensively on urban society, charitable institutions, and confraternities. His books include Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance: Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna (Johns Hopkins: 2005) and Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna (Cambridge University Press: 1995), which was awarded the Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian Historical Studies. He has edited three collections, The Art of Executing Well: Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy (forthcoming), The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy (Cambridge: 2000) and Civic Self-Fashioning in Renaissance Bologna (special issue of Renaissance Studies vol. 13/4 [1999]), and co-edited three others: Sociability & Its Discontents: Social Capital & Civil Society in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe with N. Eckstein (Brepols: 2008), The Renaissance in the Streets, Schools, and Studies with K. Eisenbichler (Toronto: 2008), The Renaissance in the 19th Century with Y. Portebois (Toronto: 2003). He is currently working on a set of projects having to do with the politics and economics of charity.
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