• Professor of Medieval History (History)

telephone: 01413304369
email: Samuel.Cohn@glasgow.ac.uk

Currently, I am finishing a monograph for Cambridge University Press, entitled Popular Protest in Late Medieval Towns and have embarked on a new project, ‘Pandemics: Waves of disease, waves of hate from the Plague of Athens to AIDS’, funded by the Wellcome.

Recent and Current projects:

I was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board and other smaller grants to complete two books:

• Popular protest in late medieval Europe: Italy, France, and Flanders  Medieval Sources Series. Manchester University Press (October, 2004), xxiv+389 pp. ISBN 0 7190 6730 8 hardback; 0 7190 6731 6 paperback
  And
• Lust for Liberty: The politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425 (Cambridge, Ma., Harvard University Press, 2006). ISBN 0-674-02162-2; x+376 pp. Paperback edition (2008) 978-0-674-03038-1

I have been funded by the Wellcome for two projects which resulted in the publication of:

• The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe (London: Edward Arnold, May, 2002 in the UK and Oxford University Press, in the US), xii+318 pp. ISBN 0 340 70646 5 (Hb); ISBN 0 349 70647 3 (Pb)
  And
• Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). ISBN 978-0-19-957402-5; xiv+342 pp. Paperback edition (2010) 978-0-19-960509-5

I now have a Wellcome Pilot Programme Grant for ‘Pandemics: Waves of disease, waves of hate from the Plague of Athens to AIDS’.

A  Selection of Recent Conference papers and Plenary Lectures:

• 5-04: ‘Bandiere e parole: Le rivolte popolari al Nord e al Sud delle Alpi (1200-1425)’,  Two–day conference on ritual, Arezzo, Italy
• 10-04: ‘The Black Death and its social consequences: Medicine, religion, and rebellion’ University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
• 12-04: ‘The Jews and the Black Death’, Jewish Historical Society, London. 
• 5-05: ‘The Black Death and the burning of the Jews’, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
• 1-06 Vanderbilt, ‘The Black Death, violence, and social revolt’
• 4-06, Conference on Popular Revolt in Europe, ‘La pecularità degli Inglesi e le rivolte del tardo medieovo’ Florence, Italy
• 12- 06 : ‘La peste nera e la pestilenze a Milano nel Cinquecento’, Bocconi University (Milan)
• 3-07, European University Institute [EUI], Fiesole, Italy: ‘Medieval Popular Revolt from the perspective of Early Modern Europe’ 
• 11- 07 Istituto Galileo Chini, Lido di Camaiore: 'Il tumulto dei Ciompi nei contesti eoropei'
• 1-08: Berkeley: Inaugural lecture as 'Distinguished Visiting Professor: 'Plague and literature in late Medieval and Early Modern Italy'
• 3-06 The Crayenborgh lecture at Leiden University, ‘Popular revolt and the Black Death’.
• 3-08: Huntington Library, San Marino, California: California Medieval History Seminar: 'Epidemiology of the Black Death'
• 3-08: University of California, San Diego, History and History of Science Seminar: 'Evolutions of plague and thought in sixteenth-century Italy'
• 4-08: Stanford University: ‘Introduction to Culture of Plague: sources, perspectives: A quantitative reckoning’
• 9-08: Florence and the Chianti: ‘A Healthy City’ Conference: ‘The Black Death: The disease and why it matters’
• 10-08, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge: ‘Towards a public health consciousness in medical science: Plague in sixteenth-century Italy’.
• 10-08, Denys Hay Seminar, Edinburgh University, ‘The evolution of plague and thought from the Black Death to the seventeenth century’
• 1-09 EUI, Fiesole:  ‘Models of Popular Revolt: From late medieval to early modern Europe’
• 4-09, University of Ghent, ‘Popular revolt in late medieval and early modern Europe: theory and history’
• 4-09. ‘The Changing Pathology of Plague’, XLI Settimana di Studi: Le interazioni fra economia e ambiente biologico nell’Europa preindustriale, Secc. XIII-XVIII (Prato, 26-30 aprile 2009)
• 10-09 XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference Marrakech, Morocco  ‘Catching the plague’ with Guido Alfani
• 10- 09 Text & Context: Literature and History of Medieval Europe, Université Paris Est (Marne-la-Vallée), ‘Editing Historical Fiction on Plague’
• 12-09 Vanderbilt History Seminar 2009-10: The Historical Life of Things. ‘Renaissance Attachment to Things: Material Culture in Last Wills and Testaments’, Nashville, TN.
• 2-10: ‘Cultures of Plague: Evolutions of Disease and Thought’ University of Oxford Art History Department and Faculty of History, Italian Renaissance Seminar.
• 5-10 ‘Repression of Popular Revolt in Late Medieval and early Modern Italy’, at Villa le Balze, Georgetown University, Fiesole: ‘The Culture of Violence in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy’
• 9-10: ‘The Case for a Medieval–Early Modern Divide: Popular Revolt’ at the 2nd Dublin Workshop on the Medieval-Early Modern Divide (Trinity Dublin)
• 9-10: 'Enigmas of communication: Jacques, Ciompi, and the English' Conference Seville, Spain, Conference, Espacio public, opinion y crítica política a fines de la Edad Media: conceptos, fuentes, historia 
• 6 -11 The Goodall Lecture: Annual Lecture for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow: ‘Debates of Plague: The Black Death Disease’.
• 6-11 Keynote Lecture for the 3rd Postgraduate symposium, Swansea University on ‘Deviance and Orthodoxy’: ‘Hate in Late Medieval England’.
• 6-11: Plenary for the Anglo-America Conference, IHR, London: ‘Pandemics: Waves of Disease, Waves of Hate from the Plague of Athens to AIDS’.
• 7-11: Plenary for the International Medieval Congress, Leeds; ‘Paradoxes: Rich and Poor in Western Europe and the Political Consequences, ca. 1300-1600’.
• 9-11: Plenary for the 40th Fifteenth Century Conference, Norwich, UEA ‘Society in an Age of Plague’ ‘The Historian and the Laboratory: the Black Death Disease’

In addition, I am have been invited to give lectures in September 2011 on my new project at Harvard University, the Center for European Studies, Study Group on ‘The Health of Nations: Europe in Comparative Perspective’ and at the University of California, Berkeley, the Office of the History of Science and Technology. In October 2011 I will give a lecture at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, University of Uppsala, and in December at the Universidad de Cantabria in Santander, Spain in December.