Guy Lazure

Assistant Professor
Graduate Faculty

Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 2003
M.A. Université de Montréal, 1996
B.A. History/Art History, Université de Montréal, 1994

2176 Chrysler Hall North
University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4
tel. 519-253-3000 ext. 2325

glazure@uwindsor.ca

Research & Teaching Interests

Medieval and Early Modern Europe, European history, Spain, Renaissance, Atlantic world, humanism, empires, cultural history, cultural encounters, urban history, historiography, theory

Current Projects

I am currently working on a broad study of humanists and cultural elites in Seville (Spain), from their formation as a group in the early 16th century to their rise at the court of king Philip IV in the first half of the 17th century.

Selected Publications

“Posséder le sacré. Monarchie et identité dans la collection de reliques de Philippe II à l’Escorial” in Philippe Boutry – Pierre-Antoine Fabre – Dominique Julia (eds.), Reliques modernes. Cultes et usages des corps saints des Réformes aux révolutions, Paris, Éditions de l’EHESS, 2009, vol. 1, p. 371-404.

“«Un vehemente deseo de comprender la imagen de aquel famoso Templo se adueña de mí» : Seeing and understanding the Temple of Solomon according to Juan Bautista Villalpando S.J. (1605)”, Word & Image, 24, 2008, p. 413-426.

“Possessing the Sacred: Monarchy and Identity in Philip II’s Relic Collection at the Escorial”, Renaissance Quarterly, 60, 2007, p. 58-93. 

Recent Graduate Students Supervised

Brian Rooney, The Changing Face of 1759: The British Conquest in Quebec Historical Writing, 1944-1976, Major Paper, 2010

Mark Conte, Internal Reader, "L'arte del padre e' mezzo imparata": The Italian Immigrant Garden in Post-War Toronto, Major Paper, 2010

Malinda Shaw, Co-Supervisor, The Reverend George Trosse's Descent into Hell: The Medicalization of Demonic Possession in Seventeenth-Century England, Major Paper, 2010

Sarah Doran, Internal Reader, Engaging with the "Other": Cosmopolitanism and English-Language Culture in Montreal in the 1940s and 1950s, Major Paper, 2010

Jason Underhill, internal reader, “Masculinity, Patriarchy and Witchcraft in Early Modern England, 1550-1650”, Major Paper, 2009.

Jeffrey Leonard, “Astride on a Fence : Sacred and Secular Interaction and the Cultivation of a Golden Age in Chicago’s Black Metropolis (1900-1963)”, Major Paper, 2008.

Courses Taught

PDF (printable) Lazure CV September 2009