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First Name
Ute
Last Name
Lotz-Heumann
Country
United States
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Affiliation
University of Arizona
Website URL
https://sites.arizona.edu/lotz-heumann/
Keywords
early modern European history, German history, Irish history, history of the British Isles, religious history, cultural history
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About Me

Ute Lotz-Heumann is Professor of History and holds the Heiko A. Oberman Chair in Late Medieval and Reformation Studies at the University of Arizona. She is also Director of DLMRS. Her work focuses on the cultural and religious history of Germany, Britain, and Ireland between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She has published on the religious conflicts in Ireland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the history of spas and holy wells in early modern Germany, and the diary of Samuel Pepys.

Recent Publications

Website of the Digital Humanities Project “The Many Worlds of Samuel Pepys,” https://pepysworlds.wordpress.com/

Ute Lotz-Heumann, The German Spa in the Long Eighteenth-Century: A Cultural History, Routledge Studies in Cultural History (hardcover 2022, paperback 2023).

Susan C. Karant-Nunn and Ute Lotz-Heumann, eds., The Cultural History of the Reformations: Theories and Applications, Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, vol. 164 (Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek, 2021).

Ute Lotz-Heumann, “Diary of Samuel Pepys shows how life under the bubonic plague mirrored today’s pandemic,” The Conversation, 24 April 2020. https://theconversation.com/diary-of-samuel-pepys-shows-how-life-under-the-bubonic-plague-mirrored-todays-pandemic-136222.

Ute Lotz-Heumann, “How to Make a Holy Well: Local Practices and Official Responses in Early Modern Germany,” in Cultural Shifts and Ritual Transformations in Reformation Europe: Essays in Honor of Susan C. Karant-Nunn, ed. Victoria Christman and Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2020), 141-168.

Ute Lotz-Heumann, ed., A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History: Life, Death, and Everything in Between, in honor Susan C. Karant-Nunn (London, New York: Routledge, 2019).

Ute Lotz-Heumann, “Confessionalization,” in The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation, ed. Alexandra Bamji, Geert H. Janssen, and Mary Laven (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013), 33-53.

Ute Lotz-Heumann, “Between Conflict and Coexistence: The Catholic Community in Ireland as a ‘Visible Underground Church’ in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries,” in Catholic Communities in Protestant States: Britain and the Netherlands, 1580-1720, ed. Benjamin Kaplan, Bob Moore, Henk van Nierop, and Judith Pollmann (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009), 168-182.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Germany, Ireland, Britain
Expertise by Geography
British Isles, Germany, Ireland
Expertise by Chronology
Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century, Early Modern
Expertise by Topic
Material Culture, Politics, Religion