Hilmar M. Pabel
Professor
Office: AQ 6230
Email: pabel@sfu.ca
Personal Website:
Areas of Study: EUROPE, EARLY MODERN
Courses
Fall 2024
Spring 2025
Future courses may be subject to change.
Research Interests
Renaissance humanism: Erasmus of Rotterdam;
Early Modern Catholicism;
History of the Book;
Current project: The literary career of Peter Canisius, SJ (1521-1597)
Books
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Herculean Labours
Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2008 -
Holy Scripture Speaks: Studies in the Production and Reception of Erasmus' Paraphrases on the New Testament
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002 -
Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John W. O'Malley, SJ
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001 -
Conversing with God: Prayer in Erasmus' Pastoral Writings
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997 -
Erasmus' Vision of the Church.
Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 1995
Articles
- Peter Canisius and the Protestants: A Model of Ecumenical Dialogue? Journal of Jesuit Studies 1 (2014): 373-99.
- Fear and Consolation: Peter Canisius and the Spirituality of Dying and Death. Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits 45 (2013): 1-32.
- "Paraphrase and Plagiarism: Peter Canisius Exposition of Psalm 51. Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 80 (2011): 371-406.
- Catholic Augustine.Theological Studies 71 (2010): 903-925.
- "The Authority of Augustine in Erasmus' Biblical Exegesis." Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 29 (2009): 61-87.
- "Augustine's Confessions and the Autobigraphies of Peter Canisius." Church History and Religious Culture 87 (2007): 453-75.
- "Erasmus, Willem Vorsterman, and the Printing of St. Jerome's Letters." Quaerendo 37 (2007): 267-90.
- "Peter Canisius as a Catholic Editor of a Catholic St. Jerome." Archiv f羹r Reformationsgeschichte 96 (2005): 171-97.
- "Sixteenth-Century Catholic Criticism of Erasmus' Edition of St. Jerome." Reformation and Renaissance Review 6 (2004): 231-62.
- "Credit, Paratexts, and Editorial Strategies in Erasmus of Rotterdam's Editions of St. Jerome." Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies 4 (2004): 217-56.
- "Reading Jerome in the Renaissance: Erasmus' Reception of the Adversus Jovinianum." Renaissance Quarterly 55 (2002): 470-97.
Areas of Graduate Supervision
Early Modern Europe: religious, intellectual, cultural
Accepting new graduate students: yes
Teaching Interests
Early Modern Europe: religious, intellectual, cultural
Awards
- 2009: SSHRC Standard Grant
- 2009: Fellowship, Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies
- Senior Scholar Research Fellowship, Renaissance Society of America, 2005
- Fellowship, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbattel, Germany, 2003
- Fellowship, Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Rome, 2002
- Standard Grant, SSHRC, 2001 - 2004