Dale K. Van Kley

Dale K. Van Kley (July 31, 1941 – March 14, 2023)[1][2] was an American historian and professor of history at the Ohio State University.[3]

Van Kley wrote numerous books and articles, and taught and conducted research throughout North America and Europe.[3] He is best known for[citation needed][original research?] his prize-winning[which?] book The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791 (1996).[citation needed] While extensive and diverse, his life's work focused on the contributions that Augustinian theology made to the concepts of liberty that underlay the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.[citation needed]

Selected articles

  • "Church, State, and the Ideological Origins of the French Revolution: The Debate over the General Assembly of the Gallican Clergy in 1765," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 51, No. 4, December 1979.
  • "The Estates General as Ecumenical Council: The Constitutionalism of Corporate Consensus and the 'Parlement's' Ruling of September 25, 1788," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 61, No. 1, March 1989.
  • "Pure Politics in Absolute Space: The English Angle on the Political History of Prerevolutionary France," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 69, No. 4, December 1997.
  • "Christianity as Casualty and Chrysalis of Modernity: The Problem of Dechristianization in the French Revolution," The American Historical Review 108 (4) (October 2003): 1081-1104.
  • "Religion and the Age of 'Patriot' Reform," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 80, No. 2, June 2008.

Selected bibliography

  • The French Idea of Freedom: The Old Regime and the French Declaration of Rights of 1789. Stanford University Press, 1994. (editor)
  • The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Dale K. Van Kley (1941-2023)". Society for French Historical Studies.
  2. ^ "The Passing of Dale Van Kley". The Ohio State University. March 23, 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Dale K. Van Kley". newnetherlandinstitute.org. Retrieved August 11, 2017.


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