Patrouch, Joseph
Dr Joseph Patrouch
Director, Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies
Professor
BA with Distinction in History, Boston University, 1982
Suite 300 B Arts & Convocation Hall
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2E6
Tel. (780) 492-1444
Fax (780) 492-4340
| Expertise & Research Interests |
I am a specialist on the histories of the lands and peoples ruled by members of the Habsburg Dynasty, particularly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I am currently engaged in bibliographic and historiographic projects on related themes. My monographs have emphasized the processes of religious transformation in the Austrian countryside: A Negotiated Settlement: The Counter-Reformation in Upper Austria under the Habsburgs (Brill, 2000) and the roles of the women’s courts in the integration of the disparate lands of the Habsburgs in Central Europe: Queen’s Apprentice: Archduchess Elizabeth, Empress María, the Habsburgs, and the Holy Roman Empire, 1554-1569 (Brill, 2009). I also have a teaching and research interest in urban studies and urban geography. While teaching at the University of Vienna in the Department of Geography and Regional Research I helped to edit and translate an academic guidebook to the city titled Understanding Vienna: Pathways to the City (LIT Verlag, 2006). My current research interests center on the imagined landscapes of the Holy Roman Empire in 1569-1570.
| Publications |
Books
Queen’s Apprentice: Archduchess Elizabeth, Empress María, the Habsburgs, and the Holy Roman Empire, 1554-1569. (Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2010). Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas, Volume 148.
A Negotiated Settlement: The Counter-Reformation in Upper Austria under the Habsburgs. (Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2000). Studies in Central European Histories, Volume 19.
Editor and Translator
[With Heinz Fassmann and Gerhard Hatz.] Understanding Vienna: Pathways to the City [Third Edition. Original Title: “Wien Verstehen: Wege zur Stadt.”] (Münster, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna, London: LIT Verlag, 2006). Viennensia, Volume 1.
Editor
(With Anthony Atwood.) Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians 15 (2008) and 14 (2007).
Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians 13 (2006) and 12 (2005).
Articles
“Bella gerant alii.” Laodamia’s Sisters/Habsburg Brides. Leaving Home for the Sake of the House.” In Anne Cruz., editor, Habsburg Women in Early Modern Europe. [Submitted.]
"Maximilian I as Reflected in the Later Sixteenth Century: Aspects of his ‚Gedechtnus’ in Wiener Neustadt, Prague, Vienna, and Innsbruck, 1560-1612,“ In Heinz Noflatscher, editor, Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519): Perceptions, Transfers, Comparisons. Innsbrucker Historische Studien. [In production.)
“European Cities: Containers or Groups of Inhabitants? A Review of Some Recent Developments in Early Modern Urban Studies,” History Compass 7:5 (2009) 1350-1362.
“The Making of Five Images of the Habsburg Monarchy: Before Nation there was Agglutination,” Austrian History Yearbook 40 (2009) 91-98.
“The Coronations of Queen María: Reaching Beyond Religious Divisions in Prague, Frankfurt am Main, and Bratislava, 1562-1563,” Kosmas. Czechoslovak and Central European Journal 21 (2008) 9-21.
“The Holy Roman Empire Two Hundred Years After: Model for European Integration?” Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians 15 (2008) 117-125.
“Die Gegenreformation in Oberösterreich: Stichwörter und Konzepte,” in Rudolf Leeb, Susanne Claudine Pils, and Thomas Winkelbauer, editors, Staatsmacht und Seelenheil: Gegenreformation und Geheimprotestantismus in der Habsburgermonarchie Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Vol. 47. (Vienna: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2007) 367-375.
“Vienna as Seen From Miami: Three Colloquia on the City”
Teaching Austria: An E-Journal2 (2006) 101-105.
“Dowager Queen Alžbeta (1554-1592): From the Religious Wars in France to Prague,” Morava vid?na z vn?jšku/Moravia from World Perspective: Selected Proceedings of the 22nd World Congress of Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (Ostrava: Repronis, 2006). Volume I, 246-252.
Book Reviews
Linda Maria Koldau, Frauen-Musik-Kultur: Ein Handbuch zum deutschen Sprachgebiet der Frühen Neuzeit. Medieval Feminist Forum 45:1 (2009) 181-184.
Katharina Schütz Zell, Church Mother: The Writings of a Protestant Reformer in Sixteenth-Century Germany. Medieval Feminist Forum 45:1 (2009) 173-176.
Friedemann Bedürftig, Der Dreißigjährige Krieg. Catholic Historical Review 95:1 (2009) 153-154.