David Nicholas
Ph.D., Brown, 1967
Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of History
6 Hardin Hall
(864) 656-5377
nichold@clemson.edu
http://www.clemson.edu/~nichold/dnhome.html

Dr. Nicholas is Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of History. He came to Clemson in 1989 from the University of Nebraska, where he taught for 22 years. Professor Nicholas is the author or editor of fifteen books, including The Transformation of Europe, 1300-1600 (1999), The Metamorphosis of a Medieval City (1987), Town and Countryside (1971), and his newest work, Urban Europe, 1100-1700 (2003). At Clemson, Dr. Nicholas teaches courses in Medieval History, The Era of the Hundred Years War, premodern urbanizatin, the European family and the History of England to 1688. In 2003, he was awarded a prestigious fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, to study the patterns of regional identity in northern Europe during the 14th and 15th centuries.

For Dr. Nicholas’s course syllabus, curriculum vitae, and other useful resources, please visit his webpage at http://www.clemson.edu/~nichold/dnhome.html.

Selected Publications
Urban Europe, 1100-1700 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)

The Transformation of Europe, 1300-1600 (London: Edward Arnold, 1999)

The Growth of the Medieval City: From Late Antiquity to the Early Fourteenth Century (London: Longman, 1997)

The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500
(London: Longman, 1997)

Trade, Urbanization and the Family: Studies in the History of Medieval Flanders (Variorum, 1996)

The Evolution of the Medieval World: Society, Government and Thought in Europe, 312-1500
(Longman, 1992)

Medieval Flanders (Longman, 1992)

The van Arteveldes of Ghent: The Varieties of Vendetta and the Hero in History
(Cornell, 1988)

The Metamorphosis of a Medieval City: Ghent in the Age of the Arteveldes, 1302-1390 (Nebraska, 1987)

The Domestic Life of a Medieval City: Women, Children, and the Family in 14th-Century Ghent (Nebraska: 1985)

Town and Countryside: Social, Economic and Political Tensions in 14th-Century Flanders (Bruges, 1971)

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