Tlusty, Beverly

INTERCOUNTRY LECTURESHIP QUESTIONNAIRE 2008
NAME: Beverly Ann Tlusty GRANT PERIOD: Sep 1-Nov 30 2008
EMAIL ADDRESS: tlusty@bucknell.edu BORN: 16 Dec. 1954, NY, USA
PRESENT POSITION US: Assoc. Prof. of History LANGUAGES: English, German
Bucknell University
GERMAN HOST INSTITUTION
(please provide links to homepages, if available)
Universität Augsburg, http://www.uni-augsburg.de/
ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE
History
AREAS OF RESEARCH
Early modern German social/cultural history, gender
Interdisciplinary cooperation with scholar of historical linguistics
POSSIBLE LECTURE TOPICS
1. Household, Community, and the Right to Bear Arms in Early Modern Germany
2. Shooting Festivals and Diplomatic Relations in Early Modern Germany
3. Swordplay and the “Good Death” in Early Modern Germany
ACADEMIC TRAINING AND DEGREES
BA, Russian Studies, U. of Maryland, European Division, 1981
MA, International Relations, U. of Southern California, 1984
Ph.D., European History, 1994, U. of Maryland, College Park
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
TA, U. of Maryland, 1988-89
PUBLICATIONS (selected)
Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany (Charlottesville, 2001)
The World of the Tavern: The Public House in Early Modern Europe, with Beat Kümin (Aldershot, 2002)
“Rumor, Fear, and Male Civic Duty during a Confessional Crisis,” forthcoming in Masculinity in the
Reformation Era, ed. Scott Hendrix and Susan Karant-Nunn (Kirksville, MO, 2008).

“Playing by the Rules: Gambling and Social Identity in Early Modern German Towns,” Memoria y
Civilización 7 (2004 [2005]), 7-38.
“Drinking, Family Relations and Authority in Early Modern Germany,” The Journal of Family History,
January 2004, 253-273.
“’Privat’ oder ‘Öffentlich’? Das Wirtshaus in der deutschen Stadt des 16. und 17. Jahrhundert,” in Zwischen
Gotteshaus und Taverne: Öffentliche Räume in der Frühen Neuzeit, ed. Susanne Rau and Gerd
Schwerhoff (Cologne, 2004), 53-73.
“toll vnd voll. Zur Bezeichnung des Betrunkenseins in städtischen Gerichtsakten und Verordnungen des 16.
und 17. Jahrhunderts aus Ostschwaben,” with Helmut Graser, in Sprachgeschichten: Ein Lesebuch
für Werner König, ed. Edith Funk, et al. (Heidelberg, 2003), 81-98.
“Civic Defense and the Right to Bear Arms in the Early Modern German City,” Acta Histriae 10 (2002/2),
493-506.
“Violence and Urban Identity: Communication Strategies Between Authorities and Citizens in the
Adjudication of Fights,” in Cultures of Communication from Reformation to Enlightenment:
Constructing Publics in the Early Modern German Lands, ed. James Van Horn Melton (Aldershot
2002), 10-23.
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