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Janelle Greenberg

Professor
PhD, University of Michigan (1970)

University of Pittsburgh
Department of History
3518 Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-648-7461
janelleg@pitt.edu

Field(s) Early Modern Britain
Medieval and Early Modern Law and Political Thought
Western Europe
European Family History

Teaching

Medieval Law and Government
English Origins of American Law
History of the European Family
Women and the Law
Graduate Seminar on Teaching
From Communities to Kingdoms: The Growth of the European State c. 800 to c. 1800
Selected Publications

The Radical Face of the Ancient Constitution: The "Laws" of St. Edward in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2001)

"The Laws of St. Edward the Confessor and the Radical Face of the Ancient Constitution in Stuart England" (English Historical Review, 1989)

Subjects and Sovereigns: The Grand Controversy over Legal Sovereignty in Stuart England (Cambridge University Press, 1981/2003) with Corinne C. Weston.

Honors/Awards

National Endowment of the Humanities Grant (1999)
American Philosophical Society Grant (1989)
Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award (1989)

Project(s)

Currently writing a book on the political thought of the English civil war, and embarking on a study of the use of Saxon sources in the pamphlet literature of the American Revolution.