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Tom Deutscher

  • Professor; Department Head
  • St. Thomas More College
  • 1437 College Drive Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W6
  • Phone: 306.966.4934
  • tdeutscher@stmcollege.ca
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Education | Research Interests | Research Projects | Selected Publications
Teaching Responsibilities | Administrative Responsibilities

Education

  • BA Honours, University of Saskatchewan, 1970
  • MA in History, University of Saskatchewan, 1971
  • PhD in History, University of Toronto, 1978

Research Interests

  • The Catholic or Counter-Reformation in Italy
  • Religious thought and Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Italy

Research Projects

  • The ecclesiastical tribunal of the diocese of Novara, Italy, and the reform of the clergy and laity, 1563-1800
  • The religious thought of Lodovico Antonio Muratori (1672-1750), priest, archivist, historian and precursor of the Italian Enlightenment

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • Associate Editor of Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation, edited by Peter Bietenholz, Toronto, Buffalo, 1985-1987.
  • Articles on the education and libraries of the parish clergy of Novara in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Renaissance Quarterly, and the Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa
  • “The Bishop’s Tribunal and the Laity:  The Diocese of Novara, 1563 to 1615,” in The Renaissance in the Streets, Schools, and Studies:  Essays in Honour of Paul F. Grendler, edited by Konrad Eisenbichler and Nicholas Terpstra.  Toronto:  Centre for Reformation and Renaissance studies, 2008.  Pages 183-209.
  • Punishment and Penance:  Two Phases in History of the Bishop's Tribunal of Novara.  (Accepted for Publication, University of Toronto Press).

Teaching Responsibilities

  • History of Christianity in Europe
  • Humanism in Renaissance Italy
  • Early Modern Italy
  • The Catholic or Counter-Reformation

Administrative Responsibilities

  • Head of the History Department, St. Thomas More College
  • Member of the Catholic Studies working group, spring 2008 to the present
  • Member of the University Council effective summer 2008
  I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that bears no fruit he cuts away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes to make it bear even more.”
— John 15:1-2