Melissa M. Bullard
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Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
M.A. Cornell University, 1969; |
Research Interests
Renaissance Italy and Early Modern Europe are the focus of Melissa Bullard's research. She has written books on political finance (Filippo Strozzi and the Medici. Favor and Finance in Sixteenth-Century Florence and Rome, Cambridge University Press, 1980 and on Lorenzo the Magnificent: Image and Anxiety, Politics and Finance, Olschki, 1994) as well as numerous articles dealing with patronage, family history, papal finance, diplomacy, psychology, and culture. She has recently completed work on two volumes for an internationally-sponsored project to publish a critical edition with extensive historical commentary on the letters of Lorenzo de' Medici (Lettre di Lorenzo de' Medici, vols x + xi, Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento and Guinti-Barbèra, 2003-2004). At Chapel Hill she teaches courses in the Italian Renaissance, medieval and early modern European economic history, Mediterranean economies and societies, Western Civilization, and a capstone seminar on Myth and History. She is currently director of the department's senior honors program.
Graduate Students Advised by Melissa Bullard:
Courses Offered (As Schedules Allow)
For current course listings, consult the Directory of Classes.
- HIST 151 -- History of Western Civilization to 1650
- HIST 177H -- Honors Seminar in Early European History
- HIST 255 -- Manor to Machine: The Economic Shaping of Europe
- HIST 391 -- Florence, Cradle of the Renaissance
- HIST 697 -- Myth and History
- HIST 691A & 691B -- History Honors Seminar
- HIST 452 -- The Renaissance
- HIST 453 -- Mediterranean Societies and Economies in the Renaissance World
- HIST 711 -- Colloquium in Early Modern European History
- HIST 761 -- Readings in Early Modern European History
Contact
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of History
CB #3195, Hamilton Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195