Dale K. Van Kley
Dale K. Van Kley (born 1941) is an American historian and professor of History at The Ohio State University.
Van Kley is the author of numerous books and articles and has taught and conducted research throughout North America and Europe. He is best known for his prize-winning book The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791 (1996). While extensive and diverse, the bulk of his life's work has focused on the contributions that Augustinian theology made to the concepts of liberty that underlay the Enlightenment and finally informed the French Revolution. In April 2005, Shanti Singham of Williams College presented a paper at the Ohio State University in support of Van Kley's side of a historiographical debate over the French Revolution's religious origins argued primarily between himself and Catherine Maire.[1]
Selected articles
- "The Estates General as Ecumenical Council.” Journal of Modern History, 61 (March 1989): 1-52
- “Pure Politics in Absolute Space.” Journal of Modern History, 69 (December 1997): 754-84.
- "Christianity as Casualty and Chrysalis of Modernity: The Problem of Dechristianization in the French Revolution." The American Historical Review, 108 (4) (October 2003): 1081-1104.
Selected bibliography
- The French Idea of Freedom: The Old Regime and the French Declaration of Rights of 1789. Stanford University Press, 1994. (editor)
- The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
See also
References
- ^ Singham, Shanti. "Patriotism in France in the 1770's," (April, 2005).
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