Harald Ernst Braun is a German historian of late medieval and early modern

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emphasizing on the integration of

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and

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, theological-political discourse, Iberian empires and the

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world. He is a

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in European History (1300-1700) at the

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.One of his major contributions has focused on the political thought of Spanish historian Juan de Mariana.

Career

Braun got an MA in History, Politics, and

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and

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, German. He received his

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. on Early Modern Catholic Political Thought at the

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. He was a temporary Lecture at

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(KCL) and the

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(LSE) until he joined the Department of History at Liverpool in 2004. In 2017, Braun was a Visiting Professor at École Normale Superieur de Lyon. Braun is the founding editor of Routledge series of ''Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts: Connexions''. He also is the founding editor of ''Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge'', a book series of the

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Works

*''Contexts of Conscience in Early Modern Europe'' (2004) with Edward Vallance *''Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought'' (2007) *''The Renaissance Conscience'' (2011) with Edward Vallance *''Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic'' (2013) with

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*''The Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque: Complex identities in the Atlantic World'' (2016) with Jesús Pérez-Magallón *''A Companion to the Spanish Scholastics'' (2021) with Erik De Bom and Paolo Astorri

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Braun, Harald E. Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Year of birth missing (living people) Living people German historians Alumni of the University of Oxford