Mackay, Christopher
Dr. Christopher S. Mackay
(Professor)
Ph.D., Harvard University, Classical Philology, 1994
M.A., Harvard University, 1987
BA University of Michigan, 1984
2-54 Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Tel. (780) 492-3344
christopher.mackay@ualberta.ca
| Expertise & Research Interests |
- Greek and Latin Literature (especially Cicero)
- Roman History
- Roman Law (especially criminal law of the Late Republic)
- Latin Epigraphy
- Witchcraft
- Consuls of the Roman Republic
What is philology?
Publications
Books
Ancient Rome: A Military and Political History Paperback, 395 pp. (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Malleus Maleficarum: Latin Text and English Translation, 2 vols., 720 + 615 pp. (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Narrative of the Anabaptist Madness Hardcover, 864 pp., Studies in the History of Christian Tradition (ed. Robert J. Bast), vol 132 (Brill, 2007).
The Hammer of Witches: A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum Paperback, 650 pp. (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Breakdown of the Roman Republic: From Oligarchy to Empire Hardback, 450 pp. (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl by Michel Launey , Edited and translated by Christopher Mackay (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Close to done
A Malleus Maleficarum Reader: Excerpts with Commentary
Edition with commentary of Henry Institoris's Brixen archive and his Nuremberg Handbook
Henry Gresbeck: Narrative of the Events in Münster (sole eyewitness account, written in Early Modern Low German)
Chapters in Books
"The Republic" in Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World ed. Greg Woolf (Cambridge University Press, 2003). NB This was really without my input (apparently I don't write in a manner considered simple enough for the intended audience), so I disown the work (stylistically at any rate).
Articles
"Epitaph of a Sailor of the Misene Fleet," in "Thirteen Latin Inscriptions at Harvard University," ed. John Bodel, American Journal of Archaeology 96 (1992) 82-84.
(with C. Damon) "The Prosecution of C. Antonius in 76 B.C.," Historia 44 (1995) 37-55.
"Official Order to a Genematophylax," and "Official Letter of Introduction," in C. Römer and T.Gagos (eds.), P. Michigan Koenen (=P. Mich. XVIII) (Amsterdam, 1996), 99-104 and 105-10.
"Terminal Expressions in the Colloquial Latin of the Early Roman Empire," Zeitschrift für Payrologie und Epigraphik 126 (1999) 229-39.
"Lactantius and the Succession to Diocletian," Classical Philology 94 (1999), 198-209.
"Damon of Chaeronea: the Loyalties of a Boeotian Town During the First Mithridatic War," Klio 82 (2000) 91-106.
"Sulla and the Monuments: Studies in His Public Persona," Historia 49 (2000) 161-210.
Reviews
A. Lintott, Judicial Reform and Land Reform in the Roman Republic (Cambridge, 1993) in Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews 6 (1995) 212-218.
J. Lindeski (ed.), Imperium sine fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic (Stuttgart, 1996) in Phoenix 51 (1997) 422-24.
V.G. Kiernan, Horace: Poetics and Politics (New York, 1999) in Canadian Journal of History 36 (2001) 317-18.
Ronald Syme, The Provincial at Rome and Rome and the Balkans, 80 B.C.-A.D. 14. (edited by Anthony Birley) (Exeter, 1999) in Phoenix 55 (2001) 455-58.
Ramon L. Jimenez, Caesar Againt Rome: The Great Roman Civil War (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000) in Canadian Journal of History 37 (2002) 321-322.
M. Zimmermann (ed.), Geschichtsschreibung und politischer Wandel im 3. Jh. n. Chr. (Stuttgart, 1999) in Phoenix 56 (2002) 196-98.
M. Lovano, The Age of Cinna: Crucible of Late Republican Rome (Stuttgart, 2002) in Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewsC (2002.06.27).
C.E.W. Steel, Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire (Oxford, 20020) in Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews (2002.10.08)
H. Mouritsen, Plebs and Politics in the Late Roman Republic (Cambridge: 2001) in Phoenix 56 (2002) 399-401
F. La Greca, Fonti letterarie greche e latine per la storia della Lucania tirrenica (Rome, 2002) in Journal of Roman Studies 93 (2003) 312-13.
M.B. Roller, Constructing Autocracy: Aristocrats and Emperors in Julio-Claudian Rome (Princeton and Oxford, 2001) in Phoenix 57 (2003) 350-51.