Michael Bruening

Dr. Michael Bruening is a specialist in the history of the Reformation and teaches courses at S&T on European history from Ancient Rome through Tudor/Stuart England. He is currently the Vice President of the Society for Reformation Research. His first book, _Calvinism’s First Battleground: Conflict and Reform in the Pays de Vaud, 1528-1559_ (Springer, 2005), is an investigation of the early Reformation in the French-speaking Switzerland outside of Geneva. It has also been published in French translation as _Le premier champ de bataille du calvinisme: Conflits et Réforme dans le Pays de Vaud, 1528-1559_ (Antipodes, 2011). The leading Protestant reformer of the Pays de Vaud, and one of John Calvin’s closest friends, was Pierre Viret. In 2012, Dr. Bruening published a critical edition of Viret’s previously unedited correspondence, _Epistolae Petri Vireti: The Previously Unedited Letters and a Register of Pierre Viret’s Correspondence_ (Droz, 2012). On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation, Dr. Bruening published a reader for courses on the Reformation, _A Reformation Sourcebook: Documents from an Age of Debate_ (University of Toronto Press, 2017). Most recently, he published an investigation of French-speaking Protestants who did not identify with the Calvinist majority, _Refusing to Kiss the Slipper: Opposition to Calvinism in the Francophone Reformation_ (Oxford University Press, 2021). He is currently working on an online edition of Sebastian Castellio’s correspondence and on history of the conflicts between Calvin and Castellio.