Department of History

Gregory Hanlon

Department of History

Email: gregory.hanlon@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-3642
Fax: 902-494-3349
Mailing Address:

Room 3176, Marion McCain Building, 6135 University Ave
PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2

Research Topics:

Death Control in the West 15001800, forthcoming 2022.
European Military History 1500-1750, Rutledge, 2020
Italy 1636: Cemetery of Armies, Oxford University Press, 2016
The Hero of Italy: The duke of Parma and the Thirty Years' War. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Vita Rurale in Terra Di Siena Nel Seicento Natura. Pascal Editrice, 2008.
Human Nature in Rural Tuscany: an early modern history. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007. (Italian translation completed, by dott. Simone Caffari).
The Origins of Modern Italy 1550-1800; Three seasons in European History. London & New York, Palgrave, 2000 (Italian translation, Il Mulino, Storia dell’Italia moderna, Bologna, 2002).
The Twilight of a Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats and European Conflicts, 1560-1800. London, University College London Press, (now Taylor & Francis) 1998.
Confession and Community in Seventeenth-Century France: Catholic and Protestant coexistence in Aquitaine. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993, 312 pp.
L’Univers des gens de bien: Culture et comportements des élites urbaines en Aquitaine au 17e siècle, Bordeaux, Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 1989

1984 Prix Tonnadre, Société Académique d'Agen, for doctoral thesis, Culture et comportements des élites urbaines en Agenais-Condomois au 17e siècle.
1992 Brewer Prize, American Society for Church History, for best book manuscript in any field of religious history.
1998 Marraro Prize, Society for Italian Historical Studies, for best book in Italian history published in 1998
2017 Induction into the Académie Nationale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux
2019 Dalhousie University, Munro Professor of History
2022 Dalhousie University, Distinguished Research Professor

Fall 2024

Winter 2025