Prof. Dr. Nicole Reinhardt

Nicole Reinhardt received her doctorate from the European University Institute, Florence (EUI) in 1997. After working as a DAAD lecturer at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris and as a Maître de conférence for Early Modern History at the University of Lyon II, she moved to Durham University in the UK in 2009. At the History Department there, she first taught as a Lecturer and was appointed Professor of Early Modern European History in 2017.
Since October 2022, she is director of the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz and heads the research group “Religion”.

• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Historical Institute Paris (DHIP)
• Member of the Advisory Board of the ‘excellence project’ of the Dipartimento di Educazione e Scienze Umane, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
• Chairwoman of the Academic Advisory Board of the DHI Paris

• interaction between religion and politics
• norms, ethics and institutions in early modern Europe, especially in Italy, France and the Iberian Peninsula

• (2022). Orizzonti (non) solo europei in un archivio patrizio Bolognese. La collezione di manoscritti di Vincenzo Ferdinando Ranuzzi Cospi tra Bologna, Londra e Austin / Texas, in: Il patriziato bolognese e l’Europa (secoli XVI-XIX), ed. Salvatore Alongi, Francesca Boris e Maria Teresa Guerrini, Bologna: Il Chiostro dei Celestini (I quaderni del chiostro 9), 202-218, https://archiviodistatobologna.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Quaderno_09.pdf
• (2021). ’For the love of God?’ The First Commandment and sacramental confession in early modern Catholic Europe, in: Rules and Ethics: Perspectives from anthropology and history, ed. Emily Corran and Morgan Clarke, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 124-144, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1td72j1.11
• (2017). Hernando de Mendoça, General Acquaviva, and the Controversy over Confession, Counsel, and Obedience, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies 4: 209–229, https://doi.org/10.1163/22141332-00402004
• (2016). Voices of Conscience. Royal Confessors and Political Counsel in Seventeenth-Century Spain and France. Oxford: Oxford University Press
• (2000). Macht und Ohnmacht der Verflechtung. Rom und Bologna unter Paul V. Studien zur frühneuzeitlichen Mikropolitik im Kirchenstaat. Tübingen: Bibliotheca Academica Verlag (Frühneuzeit-Forschungen 8)