Dr. Graeme Murdock
Associate Professor, History
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
'The Reformation and Protestant Churches in the Habsburg Monarchy' in, editor(s)Graeme Murdock, Howard Louthan (eds) , The Cambridge History of the Habsburg Monarchy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2027, [Graeme Murdock]
Graeme Murdock, Howard Louthan (eds), The Cambridge History of the Habsburg Monarchy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2027
Graeme Murdock, An English royalist in Transylvania: Contexts and legacies of Isaac Basire, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Theologia Reformata Transylvanica, 71, (2), 2026
'Religious communities after the Reformation' in, editor(s)Patrick Lantschner and Maarten Prak , The Cambridge Urban History of Europe. Volume II Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, pp724 - 744, [Graeme Murdock]
'On preaching from Isaiah against drunkenness in late seventeenth-century Debrecen in, editor(s)Yudha Thianto , The Old Testament, Calvin, and the Reformed Tradition, Leiden, Brill, 2024, pp180 - 199, [Graeme Murdock]
'Work, morality, and discipline in sixteenth-century Geneva' in, editor(s)Gabor Almasi, Giorgio Liuzzi , Rethinking the work ethic in premodern Europe, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp133 - 158, [Graeme Murdock]
'The Varad Bible in Reformed religious life and culture' in, editor(s)Ildiko N. Csaszi, Geza Balazs, Jozsef Palfi , A 360 eves varadi Biblia. A varadi Biblia tortenete, hatasa., Oradea, Partium kiado, 2023, pp13 - 18, [Graeme Murdock]
'Religion and Violence. Geneva's Just War' in, editor(s)Gianmarco Braghi, Davide Dainese , War and Peace in the Religious Conflicts of the Long Sixteenth Century, Gottingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023, pp189 - 214, [Graeme Murdock]
'Conciliorum Antverpianum- 1564' in, editor(s)Alberto Melloni , Corpus Christianorum. Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Generaliumque Decreta VI/ I/ 2, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023, pp633 - 655, [Graeme Murdock, Gianmarco Braghi]
'Concilium Argentoratense -1533/1534' in, editor(s)Alberto Melloni , Corpus Christianorum. Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Generaliumque Decreta VI/I/I, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023, pp347 - 379, [Graeme Murdock, Gianmarco Braghi]
'Conciliorum Genevense- 1541' in, editor(s)Alberto Melloni , Corpus Christianorum. Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Generaliumque Decreta VI/ I/ I, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023, pp381 - 414, [Graeme Murdock, Gianmarco Braghi]
'The aural and symbolic presence of Bibles in early Hungarian-speaking Calvinism' in, editor(s)Elizabeth Dillenburg, Howard Louthan and Drew B. Thomas , Print Culture at the Crossroads. The Book and Central Europe, Leiden, Brill, 2021, pp17 - 33, [Graeme Murdock]
'Religious life in rural Geneva' in, editor(s)Jon Balserak , The Reformation in Geneva, Leiden, Brill, 2021, pp231 - 253, [Graeme Murdock]
'Reflections on images and words in the Reformed tradition in Transylvania' in, editor(s)Carmen Florea, Greta-Monica Miron , Istoria ca Interogaţie. Mariei Crăciun la o aniversare , Cluj, Argonaut, 2020, pp29 - 39, [Graeme Murdock]
Turda 1568: Tolerance Transylvanian style in, editor(s)Ute Lotz-Heuman , A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History. Life, death, and everything in between, London, Routledge, 2019, [Graeme Murdock]
Graeme Murdock and Crawford Gribben (eds), Cultures of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019, 254pp
Calvinism and Moral Discipline in, editor(s)Graeme Murdock and Crawford Gribben (eds), , Cultures of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019, pp186 - 204, [Graeme Murdock]
Luther in a Dublin library- reflections on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in, editor(s)Gesa E. Thiessen , Called to Freedom. Reformation 1517-2017 in an Irish context, Dublin, Wordwell, 2019, pp78 - 90, [Graeme Murdock]
'The Dancing Calvinists of Montauban: testing the boundaries of a Reformed community in the 1590s in France' in, editor(s)Karen Spierling, Erik de Boer, Ward Holder , Emancipating Calvin: Culture and Confessional Identity in Francophone Reformed Communities. Essays in Honor of Raymond A. Mentzer, Jr., Leiden, Brill, 2018, pp44 - 59, [Graeme Murdock]
'Do good fences make good neighbours? Living with heretics in early modern Savoy' in, editor(s)Katsumi Fukasawa, Benjamin J. Kaplan, and Pierre-Yves Beuarepaire , Religious Interactions in Europe and the Mediterranean World. Coexistence and Dialogue from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Centuries, London, Routledge, 2017, pp67 - 78, [Graeme Murdock]
Graeme Murdock, Calvinists and Lutherans: Contesting the European Reformation, Studies. An Irish Quarterly Review, 106, 2017, p431 - 439
Jérôme Bolsec, Marco Sgarbi, Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, Springer, 2017, [Graeme Murdock]
Hungary, Mark A. Lamport, Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation, 1, Rowan and Littlefield, 2017, pp351 - 353, [Graeme Murdock]
Transylvania, Mark A Lamport, Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation, 2, Rowan and Littlefield, 2017, pp768 - 770, [Graeme Murdock]
Bibles in Central and Eastern European Vernaculars to c. 1750 in, editor(s)Euan Cameron , New Cambridge History of the Bible vol. 3, c. 1450- c. 1750, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp345 - 357, [Graeme Murdock]
'Geographies of the Protestant Reformation' in, editor(s)Ulinka Rublack , The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp105 - 123, [Graeme Murdock]
'Introduction' in, editor(s)Howard Louthan, Graeme Murdock , A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe', Leiden, Brill, 2015, [Graeme Murdock]
'Intolerance and Tolerance' in, editor(s)Howard Louthan, Graeme Murdock , A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe, Leiden, Brill, 2015, [Laura Lisy-Wagner, Graeme Murdock]
Howard Louthan, Graeme Murdock (eds), A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe, Leiden, Brill, 2015, 484pp
Afterword in, editor(s)Antonin Kalous , The Transformation of Confessional Cultures in a Central European City: Olomouc, 1400-1750, Rome, Viella, 2015, pp165-172 , [Graeme Murdock]
'Reformed Orthodoxy in East-Central Europe' in, editor(s)Herman Selderhuis , A Companion to Reformed Orthodoxy, Leiden, Brill, 2013, pp293 - 322, [Graeme Murdock]
'Afterword' in, editor(s)Graeme Murdock, Penny Roberts and Andrew Spicer , Ritual and Violence: Natalie Zemon Davis and Early Modern France. Past and Present Supplement 7 (2012), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp275 - 286, [Graeme Murdock]
Graeme Murdock, Penny Roberts, Andrew Spicer (eds),, Ritual and Violence: Natalie Zemon Davis and Early Modern France. Past and Present Supplement 7., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, 1-303pp
'The Elders' Gaze: Women and Consistorial Discipline in Late Sixteenth-Century France in, editor(s)Amy Nelson Burnett , John Calvin, Myth and Reality. Impact and Images of Geneva's Reformer, Eugene [OR], Wipf and Stock, 2011, pp69 - 90, [Graeme Murdock]
'Transylvanian Tolerance? Religious Accommodation on the Frontier of Christian Europe' in, editor(s)Marguerite Ragnow, William D. Phillips, Jr. , Religious Conflict and Accommodation in the Early Modern World, Minneapolis, Center for Early Modern History, 2011, pp101 - 126, [Graeme Murdock]
Margaret King (gen. ed.), 'John Calvin' in Oxford Bibliographies Online. Renaissance and Reformation, 2011, -
'Multiconfessionalism in Transylvania' in, editor(s)Thomas Max Safley , A Companion to Multiconfessionalism in the Early Modern World, Leiden, Brill, 2011, pp393 - 416, [Graeme Murdock]
'Calvinism' in Margaret King (gen. ed.), Oxford Bibliographies Online. Renaissance and Reformation, 2011, -
Graeme Murdock, ''Synodal resolutions, 1566'', Reformed Confessions of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in English Translation. Volume 2, 1552-1566, Grand Rapids, MI, Reformation Heritage Books, 2010, -
'Excommunication and Moral Discipline in Hungarian Reformed Communities' in, editor(s)Raymond Mentzer, Francoise Moreil, Philippe Chareyre , Dire l'interdit: The Vocabulary of Censure and Exclusion in the Early Modern Reformed Tradition, Leiden, Brill, 2010, pp201 - 217, [Graeme Murdock]
Graeme Murdock, 'Responses to Habsburg Persecution of Protestant in Seventeenth-Century Hungary, Austrian History Yearbook, 40, 2009, p37 - 52
Graeme Murdock, 'The Hungarian Reformation. Books from the National Széchényi Library, Hungary', Leiden, Brill, 2009, -
'A magyar reformatus egyhaztortenet-iras' in, editor(s)G. Fazakas, D. Csorba, B. Barath , Egyhaz es kegyesseg a kora ujkorban. Kutatastorteneti tanulmanyok, Debrecen, Harsanyi Andras Alapitvany, 2009, pp59 - 82, [Graeme Murdock]
'The practice of prayer in Reformed Hungary' in, editor(s)Abraham Kovacs , Calvinism on the Peripheries: Religion and Civil Society in Europe, Budapest, L'Harmattan, 2009, pp201 - 217, [Graeme Murdock]
They are laughing at us: Hungarian travellers and early modern European identity in, editor(s)Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francis , Under Eastern Eyes. Studies in East European Travel Writing on Europe, 1550-2000, Budapest, CEU, 2008, pp121 - 146, [Graeme Murdock]
'Godsdienstvrijheid als politieke oplossing. Tolerantie in het zestiende-eeuwse Transsylvanië' in, editor(s)Stephan van Erp , Vrijheid in verdeeldheid. Geschiedenis en actualiteit van religieuze tolerantie, Nijmegen, Valkhof, 2008, pp45-60 , [Graeme Murdock]
'Un espace-carrefour: l'Europe centrale' in, editor(s)Wolfgang Kaiser , L'Europe en conflits. Les affrontements religieux et la genese de l'Europe moderne vers 1500- vers 1600, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008, pp221 - 238, [Graeme Murdock]
Graeme Murdock, Principatul Transilvaniei in Epoca Confesionala [The Transylvanian principality in the Confessional Era], Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, 53, (1-2), 2008, p59 - 75
Graeme Murdock, 'Calvin, clothing and the body in Reformed Geneva', Proceedings of the Huguenot Society, 28, 2006
'Central and Eastern Europe' in, editor(s)Alec Ryrie , Palgrave guide to the Reformation, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2006, [Graeme Murdock]
'The use and abuse of Reformed churches: Creating space for Reformed worship in seventeenth-century Hungary' in, editor(s)Andrew Spicer, Sarah Hamilton , Defining the holy: Sacred Space in late medieval and early modern Europe, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005, [Graeme Murdock]
'Moderation under duress? Calvinist Irenicism in early seventeenth-century Royal Hungary' in, editor(s)Luc Racaut, Alec Ryrie , Between Coercion and Persuasion: moderation in the European Reformation, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005, [Graeme Murdock]
Graeme Murdock, Beyond Calvin. The Intellectual, Political and Cultural World of Europe's Reformed Churches, c. 1540-1620 , Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2004
'Did Calvinists had a guilt complex? Reformed religion, conscience, and regulation in early modern Europe' in, editor(s)Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory , Studies in Church History 40. Retribution, Repentance and Reconciliation, Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer, 2004, [Graeme Murdock]
'Dress, nudity and Calvinist culture in sixteenth-century France' in, editor(s)Catherine Richardson , Clothing Culture, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004, [Graeme Murdock]
'The Boundaries of Reformed Irenicism: Hungary and Transylvania' in, editor(s)Howard Louthan, Randall Zachman , From Conciliarism to Confessional Church, 1400-1618, South Bend, Notre Dame Press, 2004, [Graeme Murdock]
Graeme Murdock, ''Freely elected in fear': Princely elections and political power in early seventeenth-century Transylvania', Journal of Early Modern History, 7, 2003
Graeme Murdock, Catherine Richardson, and Mark Merry, Clothing, Culture and Identity in Early Modern England: Creating a New Tool for Research", Textile History, 34, 2003
Romania, Hans Hillerbrand, Encyclopedia of Protestantism, New York, Routledge, 2003, [Graeme Murdock]
Graeme Murdock, Maria Craciun, Ovidiu Ghitta (eds), Confessional Identity in East-Central Europe, Aldershot, Scholar, 2002
'The Reformation in Eastern Europe' in, Andrew Pettegree , The Reformation World, London, Routledge, 2000, [Graeme Murdock]
'Magyar Judah: Constructing a new Canaan in eastern Europe' in, editor(s)Robert Swanson , Studies in Church History 36. The Holy Land, Holy Lands and Christian History, Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer, 2000, [Graeme Murdock]
'Death, Prophecy and Judgement in Transylvania' in, editor(s)Bruce Gordon, Peter Marshall , The Place of the Dead in European Society, 1400-1700, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000, [Graeme Murdock]
Graeme Murdock, Calvinism on the Frontier. International Calvinism and the Reformed church of Hungary and Transylvania, c. 1600-1660, Oxford, Clarendon, 2000
'Beyond the Pale: International Calvinist attacks against Transylvanian Unitarianism' in, editor(s)Mihály Balázs, Gizella Keserü , György Enyedi and Central European Unitarianism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , Budapest, Balassi, 2000, [Graeme Murdock]
Graeme Murdock, 'Dressed to Repress?: Protestant clergy dress and the regulation of morality in early modern Europe', Fashion Theory. The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture , 4, 2000
'Inter-confessional relations in seventeenth-century Transylvania' in, editor(s)Hubert Laszkiewicz , Churches and confessions in East Central Europe in early modern times, Lublin, Instytut Europy, 1999, [Graeme Murdock]
'Foreign Calvinist students' contact with Presbyterians and Puritans in England: The Experience of Péter Körmendi' in, Mihály Balázs et al. , Müvelödési törekvések a korai újkorban. Tanulmányok Keserü Bálint tiszteletére, Szeged, JATE/ RMIT, 1998, [Graeme Murdock]
Graeme Murdock, 'The Importance of Being Josiah: An Image of Calvinist Identity', Sixteenth Century Journal, 29, 1998
'Church-building and Discipline in early seventeenth-century Hungary and Transylvania' in, Karin Maag (ed.) , The Reformation in Eastern and Central Europe, Aldershot, Scolar, 1997, [Graeme Murdock]
'Relations between the Hungarian Reformed and Romanian Orthodox churches in early seventeenth-century Transylvania' in, editor(s)Ambrus Miskolczy , Europe. Balcanica-Danubiana-Carpathica, Budapest, ELTE, 1995, pp216 - 223, [Graeme Murdock]
'International Calvinism, Ethnic Allegiance and the Reformed Church of Transylvania in the early seventeenth century' in, editor(s)Maria Crăciun, Ovidiu Ghitta , Ethnicity and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe, Cluj, Cluj University Press, 1995, [Graeme Murdock]
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Graeme Murdock, Shane Mawe, Mark Sweetnam, 'Power and Belief: The Reformation at 500', Online, Google Arts & Culture, 2017, -
Graeme Murdock, Huguenot Society Journal, 30 / 3, 2015, p422-423
Research Expertise
Recognition
Representations
Editorial Board, European History Quarterly
Editorial Board, Hungarian Historical Review
Editorial correspondent, Austrian History Yearbook
Advisory Board, Colloquia. Journal of Central European History
Advisory Board, Church History Review (Egyháztörténelmi Szemle)
Editorial Board, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture
External interview board for History examinations manager for the State Examination Commission
Peer reviewer of article submissions to journals (Journal of Ecclesiastical History, English Historical Review, Historical Journal, Church History, European History Quarterly, Journal of Early Modern History, Social History, Journal of Early Modern Christianity, Urban History, Cultural and Social History, Central Europe, Colloquia, Journal of Moravian History, Slavonic and East European Review, Scottish Historical Review, Renaissance and Reformation, Scottish Church History, Journal of Religion in Europe, Hungarian Historical Review, Church History and Religious Culture, and Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte).
External Examiner for Undergraduate Degrees, School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies (History), University College, London (2001-4), for Master"s and Undergraduate Degrees, History Department, University of St Andrews (2007-11), University College Dublin, Early Modern Master"s degree programme (2009-12).
External Examiner of postgraduate theses (Cambridge, St Andrews, Central European University (Budapest), Birmingham, Lampeter).
External referee for grant funding body applications (European Research Council, UK Leverhulme Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, Czech Science Foundation, Hungarian Research Development and Innovation Office, Polish National Science Centre).
Reader for review of book proposals for publishers (CUP, OUP, Pearson, Routledge, Berghahn, CEU Press, and Palgrave).
Reader for review of book manuscripts for publishers (Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, Palgrave, Brill, Routledge, Pearson, CEU Press, and Ashgate).
External assessor on applications for promotion and professorial appointments (University College London, University of Swansea, University of Kent, Boston University, University of Bristol, University of Cluj).
External assessor of postdoctoral fellowship university applications (University of Vienna, University of Durham, University of Cambridge).
Awards and Honours
Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
Honorary membership of TCDSU Council (for service to students during the COVID emergency)
Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
Honorary President, DU History Society
Memberships
Peer Review College of the Arts and Humanities Research Council
General Secretary, European Reformation Research Group
Undergraduate Awards Assessment Committee; History Panel