Paul Nelles
Associate Professor
Department of History
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
My research centres on the intellectual culture of the Renaissance, and especially on the libraries, public and private, that both fostered that culture and were in turn served by it. I have published on books, readers and libraries in early modern France, Italy, England and Germany, and on the role of writing and communication in the early Society of Jesus. I teach undergraduate courses in early modern European history, and supervise graduate students pursuing research in the cultural, religious, and intellectual history of early modern Europe.
Research Interest
history of the book history of libraries history of communication early modern Catholicism, especially the Jesuits history of food
Publications
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“ChancillerÃa en colegio: la producción y circulación de papeles jesuitas en el siglo XVI.†Cuadernos de Historia Moderna. Anejos 13 (2014): 49–70. (Special issue: La Memoria del mundo: clero, erudición y cultura escrita en el mundo ibérico (siglos XVI–XVIII). Ed. F. Palomo.)
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“Cosas y cartas: Scribal Production and Material Pathways in Jesuit Global Communication (1547–1573).†Journal of Jesuit Studies (2015): 421–50.
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“The Vatican Library Alphabets, Luca Orfei, and Graphic Media in Sistine Rome.†In For the Sake of Learning: essays in honor of Anthony Grafton. Ed. A. Blair and A.-S. Goeing. Pp. 441–68. Leiden, 2016.
