Margaret Meserve
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., Warburg Institute, University of London, 2001
Margaret.H.Meserve.1@nd.edu

Areas of Recent Teaching
· Renaissance Italy
· Early modern Europe

Areas of Recent Research
· Renaissance views of the Ottoman Turks
· Italian humanists and the Crusade

Recent Honors and Awards
· Bibliographical Society of America 'New Scholar' for 2003.

Recent Publications
· Pius II, Commentaries, eds M. Meserve and M. Simonetta, The I Tattti Renaissance Library 12 (Harvard University Press, 2003)
· "Italian Humanists and the Problem of the Crusade," in The Crusade in the Fifteenth Century: Message and Impact, ed. N. Housley (Palgrave, 2004)
· "Patronage and Propaganda at the First Paris Press: Guillaume Fichet and the First Edition of Bessarion's Orations against the Turks," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 97 (2003)
· "From Samarkand to Scythia: Reinventions of Asia in Renaissance Geography and Political Thought," in Pius II: el piu expeditivo pontifice. Selected Studies on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, eds Z. R. W. M. von Martels and A. Vanderjagt (Brill, 2003)

Departmental Page
http://www.nd.edu/~history/faculty/profiles/meservem.shtml