He was born in Germany

Germany

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 and attended the Beethoven-Gymnasium in Bonn from 1961 to 1969. After two years of military service and three years of university study at Bonn

University of Bonn

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 and Heidelberg, he moved to the United States in 1975 to enroll at Columbia University

Columbia University

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 for graduate studies in medieval history under the supervision of John Mundy. In 1981, he graduated from Columbia, earning a Ph.D. with distinction. He taught there as a Lecturer in History from 1981 to 1983.

In 1983 he moved to Chicago

Chicago

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 to take a position as an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 1990, and to Professor

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 in 1999.

He came to prominence at the University of Chicago through his ground-breaking work in conciliar

Ecumenical council

An ecumenical council is a conference of ecclesiastical dignitaries and theological experts convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctrine and practice....

 theory (Council and Hierarchy) and historiography

Historiography

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 (The Limits of History). As an administrator

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, he has served as chairman of numerous academic committees at the University, culminating in his appointment as Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division (2005-2008).

He has been awarded grants from numerous organizations, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

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, the Max-Planck-Institute, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

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, the National Humanities Center

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, the American Council of Learned Societies

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, and the American Philosophical Society

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.

Books and edited books

• Hermann Conring
  Hermann Conring
  Hermann Conring was a German intellectual. He made significant contributions to the study of medicine, politics and law....
  
  's New Discourse on the Roman-German Emperor. Ed. and trans. Constantin Fasolt. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 282. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005.
• The Limits of History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
• Council and Hierarchy: The Political Thought of William Durant the Younger. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th series, ed. David Luscombe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• General Editor of New Perspectives on the Past, a series of monographs founded by R. I. Moore in 1983 and published by Blackwell, Oxford. Books published since 1993: David Arnold
  David Arnold
  David Arnold is an English film composer best known for scoring five James Bond films, the 1994 film Stargate, the 1996 film Independence Day, and the television series Little Britain.-Film and television career:...
  
  , The Problem of Nature (1996); Ernest Gellner
  Ernest Gellner
  Ernest André Gellner was a philosopher and social anthropologist, described by The Daily Telegraph when he died as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals and by The Independent as a "one-man crusade for critical rationalism."His first book, Words and Things —famously, and uniquely...
  
  , Nations and Nationalism, 2nd edition (2006); Francis Oakley, Kingship (2006); William Ray, The Logic of Culture (2001); Bruce Trigger
  Bruce Trigger
  Bruce Graham Trigger, was a Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and ethnohistorian.Born in Preston, Ontario, he received a doctorate in archaeology from Yale University in 1964. His research interests at that time included the history of archaeological research and the comparative study of...
  
  , Sociocultural Evolution (1998); David Turley, Slavery (2000); Merry Wiesner, Gender in History (2001).

Articles, chapters in books, and other published writings

• "Recentering the West?" In Recent Themes in World History and the History of the West: Historians in Conversation, ed. Donald A. Yerxa
  Donald A. Yerxa
  -Career:A noted historian, Yerxa is a Director of The Historical Society at Boston University and a Senior Editor of Historically Speaking, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press for BU.He is the former chair of the James R...
  
  , 98-103. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. Reprinted from Historically Speaking 9, no. 2 (Nov/Dec 2007): 14-16.
• "Hegel's Ghost: Europe, the Reformation, and the Middle Ages." Viator 39 (2008): 345- 86.
• "Religious Authority and Ecclesiastical Governance." In The Renaissance World, ed. John Jeffries Martin, 364-80. New York - London: Routledge, 2007.
• "Recentering the West: A Forum," by John M. Headley, Sanjay Subrahmanyam
  Sanjay Subrahmanyam
  Sanjay Subrahmanyam is the holder of Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History at UCLA which he joined in 2004.-Biography:...
  
  , Constantin Fasolt, and John M. Hobson. Historically Speaking 9, no. 2 (Nov/Dec 2007): 9-19.
• "Hermann Conring and the European History of Law." In Politics and Reformations: Histories and Reformations. Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Brady, Jr., ed. Christopher Ocker, Michael Printy, Peter Starenko, and Peter Wallace, 113-134. Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, v. 127. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
• "History and Religion in the Modern Age." History and Theory, Theme Issue 45 (2006): 10- 26.
• "Red Herrings: Relativism, Objectivism, and Other False Dilemmas." Storia della storiografia 48 (2005): 17-26.
• "Empire the Modern Way." Disquisitions on the Past & Present 13 (2005): 73-82.
• "The Limits of History: An Exchange," by Constantin Fasolt, Allan Megill, and Gabrielle M. Spiegel
  Gabrielle M. Spiegel
  Gabrielle Michele Spiegel is an American historian of medieval France, and the current Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University where she served as Chair for the history department for six years and Acting and Interim Dean of Faculty...
  
  . Historically Speaking 6, no. 5 (May/June 2005): 5-17.
• "Political Unity and Religious Diversity: Hermann Conring's Confessional Writings and the Preface to Aristotle's Politics of 1637." In Confessionalization in Europe, 1555-1700: Essays in Honor and Memory of Bodo Nischan, ed. John M. Headley, Hans J. Hillerbrand, and Anthony J. Papalas, 319-45. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
• "Report on Enrollment and Teaching, 1996 to 2001," University of Chicago Record, August 15, 2002 37/1 (2002): 1-7
• "Europäische Geschichte, zweiter Akt: Die Reformation." In Die deutsche Reformation zwischen Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, ed. Thomas A. Brady, 231-50. München: R. Oldenbourg, 2001.
• "Hermann Conring and the Republic of Letters." In Die europäische Gelehrtenrepublik im Zeitalter des Konfessionalismus. The European Republic of Letters in the Age of Confessionalism, ed. Herbert Jaumann, 141-53. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2001.
• "Author and Authenticity in Conring's New Discourse on the Roman-German Emperor: A Seventeenth-Century Case Study." Renaissance Quarterly 54 (2001): 188-220.
• "Voluntarism and Conciliarism in the Work of Francis Oakley." History of Political Thought 22 (2001): 41-52.
• "Sovereignty and Heresy." In Infinite Boundaries: Order, Disorder, and Reorder in Early Modern German Culture, ed. Max Reinhart, 381-91. Kirksville, Missouri: Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies, 1998.
• "A Question of Right: Hermann Conring's 'New Discourse on the Roman-German Emperor'." Sixteenth Century Journal 28 (1997): 739-58.
• "William Durant the Younger and Conciliar Theory." Journal of the History of Ideas 58 (1997): 385-402.
• "Texts, Society, and Time, or: Why it Helps to Read Great Books." Published online by the Association for Core Texts and Courses and by Fathom
• "William Durant the Younger in the History of the Conciliar Theory." In The Vital Nexus: Representation, Consent and Papal Authority, ed. Arthur P. Monahan and John R. MacCormack, 20-8. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Institute of Human Values, Saint Mary's University, 1996.
• "Visions of Order in the Canonists and Civilians." In Handbook of European History, 1400- 1600: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation, ed. Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Heiko Oberman, and James Tracy, 2:31-59. Leiden: Brill, 1995.
• "Die Rezeption der Traktate des Wilhelm Durant d. J. im späten Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit." In Das Publikum politischer Theorie im 14. Jahrhundert: Zu den Rezeptionsbedingungen politischer Philosophie im späteren Mittelalter, ed. Jürgen Miethke, 61-80. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1992.
• "Quod omnes tangit ab omnibus approbari debet: The Words and the Meaning." In In Iure Veritas: Studies in Canon Law in Memory ofSchafer Williams, ed. Steven Bowman and Blanche Cody, 21-55. Cincinnati, Ohio: University of Cincinnati, College of Law, 1991.
• "From Helmstedt via Mainz to Paris: Hermann Conring and Hugues de Lionne." In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, 16, ed. Gordon C. Bond, 126-34. Auburn: Western Society for French History, 1989.
• "At the Crossroads of Law and Politics: William Durant the Younger's 'Treatise' on Councils." Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law n. s. 18 (1988): 43-53.
• "Conring on History." In Supplementum Festivum: Studies in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. James Hankins, John Monfasani, and Frederick Purnell, 563-87. Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1987.
• Translation of Philippe Duplessis-Mornay, "Vindiciae contra Tyrannos." In Early Modern Europe: Crisis of Authority, ed. Eric Cochrane, Charles M. Gray, and Mark A. Kishlansky, trans. Constantin Fasolt, 103-37. University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, vol. 6. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
• Translation of sections 6, 15, 29, 45, 58, 59, 61, 62, 64, 65, 69. In Medieval Europe, ed. Julius Kirshner and Karl F. Morrison, trans. Constantin Fasolt, 55-66, 87-95, 164-9, 304- 12, 360-7, 369-77, 383-402, 434-46. University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, vol. 4. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
• Revised Lists of Suggested Readings. In History of Western Civilization: A Handbook, by William H. McNeill. 6th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
• "A New View of William Durant the Younger's 'Tractatus de modo generalis concilii celebrandi'." Traditio 37 (1981): 291-324.
• "Die Erforschung von Wilhelm Durant d. J. 'Tractatus de modo generalis concilii celebrandi': Eine kritische Übersicht." Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 12 (1980): 205-28.
• "The Manuscripts and Editions of William Durant the Younger's 'Tractatus de modo generalis concilii celebrandi'." Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 10 (1978): 290-309.

Fasolt has also contributed reviews in the following journals: American Historical Review, Bryn Mawr Reviews, German History, Journal of Modern History, Renaissance Quarterly, and Sixteenth Century Journal.

External links

• Constantin Fasolt's Home Page