Professor Tom Scott
Professor Tom Scott
MA, PhD, LittD, FRSA
Honorary Professor
E-mail ts30@st-andrews.ac.uk
Tom Scott has worked on town-country relations and regional identities in late medieval and early modern Germany, bringing his approach to bear upon aspects of the Reformation at the grassroots and on the German Peasants’ War. His monograph, Regional Identity and Economic Change. The Upper Rhine, 1450-1600 was published by Oxford in 1997, and was followed by a general survey, Society and Economy in Germany, 1300-1600 in 2002 (Palgrave). A collection of 15 essays, many appearing in English for the first time, appeared under the title Town, Country, and Regions in Reformation Germany (Brill Publishers, 2005)
Major recent essays in English include:
‘Economy’ in Euan Cameron (ed.), A Short Oxford History of Europe: The Sixteenth Century (2005)
‘The City-State in the German-speaking Lands’, in Politics and Reformations. Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Brady (Brill Publishers, 2007)
‘Hubmaier, Schappeler, and Hergot on Social Revolution’, in Bridget Heal and Ole Peter Grell (eds), The Impaction of the European Reformation
‘The Reformation between Deconstruction and Reconstruction. Reflections on Recent Writings on the German Reformation’, in German History, 26 (2008)
His current research focuses on the origins and development of the city-state in Europe, AD 1000 – AD 1600.