Thomas W. Worcester, S.J.

History Department Catholic Studies Medieval & Renaissance Studies Professor Ph.D., University of Cambridge Fields: Early modern Europe; the Reformation; religion and politics in seventeenth-century France

Publications

• Seventeenth-Century Cultural Discourse: France and the Preaching of Bishop Camus (Mounton de Gruyter, 1997).
• Articles in journals such as Seventeenth-Century French Studies, Sixteenth Century Journal, and French Colonial History.
• Editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
• Co-editor of four books: From Rome to Eternity: Catholicism and the Arts in Italy, ca. 1550-1650 (Brill, 2002), Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800 (Worcester Art Museum and University of Chicago Press, 2005), Piety and Plague: From Byzantium to the Baroque (Truman State University Press, 2007), and  The Papacy since 1500: From Italian Prince to Universal Pastor (Cambridge University Press, 2010). 

Awards

• 2006 Holy Cross Marfuggi Award for Outstanding Scholarship