Martin F. Ederer, Ph.D.

Ph.D. University at Buffalo
Renaissance/Reformation, Modern Germany, Colonial America

Additional interests
Medieval Europe, Church history, WNY history

Publications

Books

Una comunità di immigrati italiani e i Padri Scalabriniani:  La chiesa di Sant’Antonio da Padova a Buffalo, New York. Bari:  Edizioni dal Sud, 2014.

An Italian Immigrant Community and the Scalabrinian Fathers:  St. Anthony of Padua Church in Buffalo. New York. Bari:  Favia, 2012.

Humanism, Scholasticism and the Theology and Preaching of Domenico de' Domenichi in the Renaissance.  Lewiston: Mellen Press, 2003. 

Buffalo's Catholic Churches: Ethnic Communities and the Architectural Legacy.  Buffalo: Digital@Bates-Jackson, 2003. 

Co-authored/co-edited books

Dear America!:  Emigrati pugliesi tra Buffalo e Mosca.  Giuseppe e Thomas Sgovio nei Gulag staliniani.  Bari:  Edizioni dal Sud, 2009. 

A Colorful Bouquet of Saints  Tucson: E.T. Nedder/Eparchy of St. Maron, 2004. 

Articles/Book chapters

 “Giovanni Battista Scalabrini,” for Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy, vol. 3.  Lanham, MD:  Scarecrow Press, 2012.

“Buffalo, New York and its Italian Immigrant Community,” in Dear America!:  Emigrati pugliesi tra Buffalo e Mosca.  Giuseppe e Thomas Sgovio nei Gulag staliniani.  Bari:  Edizioni dal Sud, 2009:  139-147. 

“The Properly Ordered Church:  Agents, Objects and Methods of Reform in the Preaching of Domenico de’ Domenichi,” in Nach dem Basler Konzil:  Die Neuordnung der Kirche zwischen Konziliarismus und monarchichschem Papat (ca. 1415-1475).  Münster:  LIT Verlag, 2008:  141-163.    

“Clergy Fleeing the Plague:  A Renaissance Debate.” Italian Quarterly 43 (2006): 25-33. 

"Propaganda Wars:  Stimmen der Zeit and the Nazis, 1933-1935."  Catholic Historical Review, 90, 3 (July 2004): 456-472. 

"The Vita Contemplativa and the Vita Activa in the Thought of Domenico de' Domenichi (1416-1478)."  Italian Quarterly 39 (2002):  19-29. 

“Urban and Regional Identity in the Preaching of Domenico de’ Domenichi (1416-1478)," Cithara 37 (November 1997):  43-51.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

Foundations of Western Civilization

Europe since 1500

Ancient Greece and Rome

Medieval Europe

Byzantine Europe

Italian Renaissance

Protestant Reformation

History of Christianity to 1500

History of Christianity 1500-present

World War II

Research and Writing Seminar

Senior Seminar

Graduate

Topics in Late Classical/Early Medieval History

Topics in Medieval History

Topics in Renaissance History

Topics in Reformation History