Craig E. Harline
Occupation	Historian
Nationality	American
Education	Ph.D. in European history
Alma mater	Rutgers University
Subject	Early Modern Europe, religion
Website
craigharline.com

Craig Edward Harline is a professor of history at Brigham Young University (BYU) and an author of several books. His research has focused on lived religion during the Reformation.

Biography

Harline was raised in a LDS family with seven siblings in Fresno, California. He served as a missionary in Belgium in the 1970s, where he developed his interests in European history.

Harline earned a B.A. from Brigham Young University in 1980; a M.A. (1984) and Ph.D. (1986) from Rutgers University. He held teaching positions at Rutgers and the University of Idaho, before he began at BYU in 1992.^[1]

In 2017 Harline was appointed to De Lamar Jensen Professorship of Early Modern History, the first endowed named chair to be established in the BYU history department.^[2]

Writings

• Pamphlets, Printing, and Political Culture in the Early Dutch Republic (Dordrecht; Boston: M. Nijhoff, 1987, ISBN 940093601X)
• Rhyme and Reason of Politics in Early Modern Europe: Collected Essays of Herbert H. Rowen (Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992, ISBN 9401052077)
• The Burdens of Sister Margaret: Inside a Seventeenth-Century Convent (New York: Doubleday, 1994; abridged paperback, Yale University Press, Nota Bene Series, 2000, ISBN 0300081219)
• A Bishop's Tale: Mathias Hovius Among his Flock in Seventeenth-Century Flanders, with Eddy Put (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000; paperback, 2002, ISBN 0300130546)
• Miracles at the Jesus Oak: Histories of the Supernatural in Reformation Europe (New York: Doubleday, 2003; paperback, Yale University Press, 2011, ISBN 0300167024)
• Sunday: A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl (New York: Doubleday, 2007; paperback, 2011, ISBN 0300167032)
• Conversions: Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011, ISBN 0300167415)
• Way Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled But Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2014, ISBN 080287150X).
• Jacobs Vlucht: een familiesaga van de Gouden Eeuw (in Dutch, [Jacob's Flight: A Family Saga of the Golden Age]; Nijmegen, the Netherlands: Vantilt, 2016, ISBN 9460042996)
• A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation (Oxford University Press, 3 October 2017, ISBN 0190275189)