History Faculty
Dr. Lawrence M. Bryant
Early Modern Europe and Historiography
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1978 
Emeritus Professor
Office Phone: 530-898-5175
e-mail: lbryant@csuchico.edu
Research Interests
Dr. Bryant's current research focuses on studying the ceremonial and print cultures of Early Modern Europe. His particular interest is examining the shifting images of kingship in 16 th Century France.
Publications
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Professor Bryant is the author of The King and the City in the Parisian Royal Entry Ceremony: Politics, Art, and Ritual in the Renaissance (Librairie Droz, 1986). His articles have appeared in several scholarly anthologies, as well as in such leading journals as French Historical Studies, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the Sixteenth Century Journal. In addition to encyclopedia entries, he also has published book reviews in the American Historical Review, Bibliotheque d’Humanisme et Renaissance, the Journal of Modern History, and Renaissance Quarterly.
Honors and Awards
In 2006, Dr. Bryant was the winner of the Sixteenth Century Studies Society’s Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize for the best article in English on the History of Early Modern France. In 2002, he was the recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Fellow Award from the University of Iowa. Professor Bryant won the Outstanding Professor Award for 1999-2000 at California State University, Chico. In 1993-1994, he was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library and in 1989-1990 a member of the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He was President of the Society for French Historical Studies in 1993.
Courses Taught
HIST 110: European Civilization, 1300-1815
HIST 410: Medieval Civilization
HIST 411: Culture, Thought and Politics of the European Renaissance
HIST 412: Society, Religion, and Politics of the Reformation
HIST 413: Culture, Society, and Politics from Machiavelli to Locke, 1500-1750
HIST 423: Tudor and Stuart England
HIST 630: Graduate Seminar: Early Modern Ceremonies and Court Culture
HIST 630: Graduate Seminar: Early Modern Print Culture
HIST 690: Graduate Seminar in Historiography
If you have any questions about the Department of History and its academic programs, please do not hesitate to call at (530) 898-5366.