Melissa Bullard

Research Interests

Renaissance Italy, Early Modern Europe, and the Atlantic World are the foci of Melissa Bullard’s research. She has written books on political finance—Filippo Strozzi and the Medici. Favor and Finance in Sixteenth-Century Florence and Rome (Cambridge University Press, 1980), and on Lorenzo the Magnificent: Image and Anxiety, Politics and Finance (Olschki, 1994) as well as numerous articles dealing with patronage, family history, papal finance, diplomacy, psychology, and culture. She published two volumes for the internationally-sponsored project for a critical edition with extensive historical commentary on the letters of Lorenzo de’ Medici (Lettere di Lorenzo de’ Medici, vols. X and XI, Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento and Guinti-Barbèra, 2003 and 2004). She is currently at work on a book on the Atlantic Renaissance. At Chapel Hill she teaches courses in the Italian Renaissance, medieval and early modern European economic history, Mediterranean economies and societies, Western Civilization, and a capstone seminar on Myth and History. She currently serves as Director of Graduate Studies and Graduate Admissions.

Graduate Students Advised by Melissa Bullard:

• Jennifer Kosmin
• Matthew Lubin
• Robert Policelli

Courses Offered (as schedules allow)

For current course listings, consult the Directory of Classes.

• HIST 151  History of Western Civilization to 1650
• HIST 177H  Voices of the Italian Renaissance (Honors Seminar in Early European History)
• HIST 178H  The Dismal Science (Honors Seminar in European History)
• HIST 255  Manor to Machine: The Economic Shaping of Europe
• HIST 391  Florence, Cradle of the Renaissance
• HIST 452  The Renaissance
• HIST 453  Mediterranean Societies and Economies in the Renaissance World
• HIST 697  Myth and History
• HIST 711  Colloquium in Early Modern European History
• HIST 761  Readings in Early Modern European History