Craig Edward Harline is a professor of history at

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(BYU) and an author of several books. His research has focused on

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during

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Biography

Harline was raised in a

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family with seven siblings in

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. He served as a

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in the 1970s, where he developed his interests in European history. Harline earned a

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from

in 1980; a

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(1984) and

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(1986) from

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. He held teaching positions at Rutgers and the

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, before he began at BYU in 1992. In 2017 Harline was appointed to De Lamar Jensen Professorship of Early Modern History, the first endowed named chair to be established in the BYU history department.article on establishment of the De Lamar Jensen chair
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Writings

*''Pamphlets, Printing, and Political Culture in the Early Dutch Republic'' (Dordrecht; Boston: M. Nijhoff, 1987, ) *''Rhyme and Reason of Politics in Early Modern Europe: Collected Essays of Herbert H. Rowen'' (Dordrecht; Boston:

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, 1992, ) *''The Burdens of Sister Margaret: Inside a Seventeenth-Century Convent'' (New York: Doubleday, 1994; abridged paperback,

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Series, 2000, ) *''A Bishop's Tale:

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Among his Flock in Seventeenth-Century

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'', with Eddy Put (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000; paperback, 2002, ) *''Miracles at the Jesus Oak: Histories of the Supernatural in Reformation Europe'' (New York:

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, 2003; paperback, Yale University Press, 2011, ) *''Sunday: A History of the First Day from

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to the

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, 2007; paperback, 2011, ) *''Conversions: Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America'' (New Haven:

, 2011, ) *''Way Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled But Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live

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, 2014, ). *''Jacobs Vlucht: een familiesaga van de Gouden Eeuw'' (in Dutch, 'Jacob's Flight: A Family Saga of the Golden Age''

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, the Netherlands: Vantilt, 2016, ) *''A World Ablaze: The Rise of

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, 3 October 2017, )

References

External links

Craig Harline's official website

Faculty page at BYU's History site

Craig Harline on Eerdmans Author Interview Series
about ''Way Below the Angels'', at

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