Celeste McNamara
Dr
Celeste McNamara is a historian of early modern Europe. She specialises in early modern Italy, the history of the Catholic Church, gender, and the history of crime. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA (2013). Before coming to DCU, she taught at the State University of New York at Cortland, University of Warwick/Warwick in Venice, and the College of William and Mary.
Dr McNamara is the author of The Bishop's Burden: Reforming the Catholic Church in Early Modern Italy (CUA Press, 2020), and a number of articles and book chapters. She is currently working on the history of the control of illicit sexuality in 16th-18th century Venice by both ecclesiastical and secular powers, with funding from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | McNamara, C. (2024) 'Priests Behaving Badly: The Problem of Scandal in the Early Modern Catholic Church*'. Journal of Modern History, 96 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Mcnamara, Celeste (2023) 'Dangerous liaisons, or strategies for family management in eighteenth-century Venice'. History of the Family, 28 (4). [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Celeste McNamara (2019) 'Molding the Model Bishop from Trent to Vatican II'. Church History, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Celeste McNamara (2016) 'What the People Want: Popular Support for Catholic Reform in the Veneto'. Catholic Historical Review, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2013 | Celeste McNamara (2013) 'Conceptualizing the Priest: Lay and Episcopal Expectations of Clerical Reform in Late Seventeenth-Century Padua'. Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, . [Link] [DOI] |
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Research Interests
Early Modern Europe
Early Modern Italy
Catholic Reform
Crime and Punishment
Gender History
Religious History
Popular Culture
Venice and the Veneto