03/15/2025
In Memoriam
The Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies mourns the loss of Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Peder Sather Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Brady was a leading historian of the Reformation and early modern central Europe. His last of five monographs, German Histories in the Age of Reformations, 1400-1650, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009 and was awarded the Gerald Strauss Book Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference.
Together with his wife, Kathy Brady, Tom Brady supported and worked with many of us in the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies.
He was co-editor, with Heiko A. Oberman, the Division’s founder and Regents Professor of History at the University of Arizona, and with James D. Tracy, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Minnesota, of the two-volume Handbook of European History 1400-1600: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation (Leiden: Brill, 1994-95).
In the fall of 2007, Tom Brady was the Heiko A. Oberman Visiting Professor in Late Medieval and Reformation History at the University of Arizona, and in 2012, he gave the Division’s annual Town and Gown Lecture on the topic “Germany, Europe, World Christianity: Reformations Lost and Found.”
We in the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies will always cherish our memories of Professor Thomas A. Brady.
