Craig Harline
Craig Edward Harline is a professor of history at Brigham Young University and an author of several books. His research has focused on lived religion during the Reformation.
Biography
Harline was raised in a The [Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|LDS] family with seven siblings in Fresno, California. He served as a missionary in Belgium in the 1970s, where he developed his interests in European history.Harline earned a B.A. from Brigham Young University in 1980; a M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He held teaching positions at Rutgers and the University of Idaho, 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.
Writings
- Pamphlets, Printing, and Political Culture in the Early Dutch Republic
- Rhyme and Reason of Politics in Early Modern Europe: Collected Essays of Herbert H. Rowen
- The Burdens of Sister Margaret: Inside a Seventeenth-Century Convent
- A Bishop's Tale: Mathias Hovius Among his Flock in Seventeenth-Century Flanders, with Eddy Put
- Miracles at the Jesus Oak: Histories of the Supernatural in Reformation Europe
- Sunday: A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl
- Conversions: Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America
- Way Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled But Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary.
- Jacobs Vlucht: een familiesaga van de Gouden Eeuw
- ''A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation''