Summary

During the past 25 years, Ken Stevens has had the great pleasure of teaching a variety of courses on early modern Europe and Renaissance Italy, including such "boutique" courses as, "The w88 online casino of the Book in Europe, 1450-1800," "The Worlds of Leonard Da Vinci" and "Venice: A Cultural w88 online casino." He finds teaching both demanding and rewarding. Stevens researches the w88 online casino of printing and publishing in 16th-century Italy, with an emphasis on Milan. To date, he has published more than 20 scholarly articles/book chapters, most recently, "Sanctity as Cheap Print: Production, Markets, and Consumers in Early Modern Milan" (University of Toronto Press) and is completing a manuscript,The Business of Print: Publishing, Politics, and Society in Early Modern Milan. Recently he took part in an Aldine Quincentennial Symposium (in honor of Aldus Manutius, the famous Venetian Printer) at the Newberry Library in Chicago, where he gave paper news-sheets in 16th-Century Italy on, "Did you Read about the Gentleman in Padua who killed his Servant and poisoned his Wife...?"

Specialties

• Renaissance Europe
• Italy
• w88 online casino of the book

Courses Taught

• w88 online casino 105: European Civilization
• w88 online casino 371: Ancient Civilization I
• w88 online casino 372: Ancient Civilization II
• HIST 377: European Social w88 online casino
• w88 online casino 384: The Italian Renaissance
• w88 online casino 482/682: The Age of Discovery, 1300-1600
• HIST 484a/684a: w88 online casino of the Book, 1450-1800
• HIST 498/698: Venice: A Cultural w88 online casino
• CH 201: Ancient and Medieval Culture

Education

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1992