Hilmar M. Pabel

Professor
Office: AQ 6230
Email: pabel@sfu.ca
Personal Website: www.sfu.ca/~pabel/

Areas of Study: EUROPE, EARLY MODERN

Courses

Spring 2024

Future courses may be subject to change.

Research Interests

Renaissance humanism: Erasmus of Rotterdam;
Early Modern Catholicism;
History of the Book;
Current project: The literary career of Peter Canisius, SJ (1521-1597)

Books

Herculean Labours
Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2008
Holy Scripture Speaks: Studies in the Production and Reception of Erasmus' Paraphrases on the New Testament
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002
Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John W. O'Malley, SJ
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001
Conversing with God: Prayer in Erasmus' Pastoral Writings
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997
Erasmus' Vision of the Church.
Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 1995

Articles

“Peter Canisius and the Protestants: A Model of Ecumenical Dialogue?” Journal of Jesuit Studies 1 (2014): 373-99.
“Fear and Consolation: Peter Canisius and the Spirituality of Dying and Death.” Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits 45 (2013): 1-32.
"Paraphrase and Plagiarism: Peter Canisius’ Exposition of Psalm 51.” Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 80 (2011): 371-406.
Catholic’ Augustine.”Theological Studies 71 (2010): 903-925.
"The Authority of Augustine in Erasmus' Biblical Exegesis." Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 29 (2009): 61-87.
"Augustine's Confessions and the Autobigraphies of Peter Canisius." Church History and Religious Culture 87 (2007): 453-75.
"Erasmus, Willem Vorsterman, and the Printing of St. Jerome's Letters." Quaerendo 37 (2007): 267-90.
"Peter Canisius as a Catholic Editor of a Catholic St. Jerome." Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 96 (2005): 171-97.
"Sixteenth-Century Catholic Criticism of Erasmus' Edition of St. Jerome." Reformation and Renaissance Review 6 (2004): 231-62.
"Credit, Paratexts, and Editorial Strategies in Erasmus of Rotterdam's Editions of St. Jerome." Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies 4 (2004): 217-56.
"Reading Jerome in the Renaissance: Erasmus' Reception of the Adversus Jovinianum." Renaissance Quarterly 55 (2002): 470-97.

Areas of Graduate Supervision

Early Modern Europe: religious, intellectual, cultural

Teaching Interests