Faculty in History
 Dr.
William H. TeBrake
Adelaide & Alan Bird Professor of History
E-Mail:
William.TeBrake@umit.maine.edu
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 1975
My
primary teaching field is the history of medieval Europe, which I cover
in an introductory course on medieval civilization (HTY 202)
and in a two-course sequence, The Early Middle Ages (HTY
403) and The Late Middle Ages (HTY
404). In addition, I teach the first half of European Civilization
(HTY
105) and, from time to time, an introduction to the graduate study
of History (HTY 647: Historiography and Methodology). Finally, I offer
an undergraduate research seminar (HTY
311), the Department's Senior Seminar (HTY
498), as well as a graduate seminar on Pre-Modern Europe (HTY
517) on a regular rotation. From 1988 to 1996 I served as the
Graduate Coordinator of the Department and
from 1997 to 2003 as
the chair of the Department. My area of research is the Social and
Environmental History of Europe, with a particular emphasis on the Low
Countries.
Selected Publications:
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Hoogheemraadschap Rijnland [Water Board
Rijnland], Registers OAR 11, 12, 13: 1253-1564 (Leiden, NL:
Vereniging Jan van Hout, 2006) --
http://www.janvanhout.nl/tebrake/oar_frame.htm
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Medieval Frontier: Culture and Ecology in Rijnland,
Environmental History Series, Number Seven (College Station: Texas A & M University
Press, 1985), xiv, 293 pp [reissued in paper, 2000].
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A Plague of Insurrection: Popular Politics and Peasant Revolt in
Flanders, 1323-1328, Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1993), vii, 169 pp.
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"Land Reclamation and Public Environmental Policy in Medieval
Holland," Environmental Review, 12 (Fall 1988 [1989]): 75-93
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"Crime and Punishment in Rural Holland During the Late Fourteenth
Century" Tijdschrift voor sociale geschiedenis, 19 (1993): 1-23
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"Rural Communities and Hydraulic Institutions in Late Medieval
Holland," in La société rurale et les institutions gouvernementales au
moyen âge: actes du colloque de Montréal 13-15 mai, 1993, ed. John Drendel (Montréal: CERES, 1995), pp. 149-60
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"Hydraulic Engineering in the Netherlands During the Middle Ages," in
Working with Water in Medieval Europe: Technology and Resource Use,
ed. Paolo Squatriti, Technology and Change in History, 3 (Leiden:
Brill, 2000), pp. 101-127.
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"Netherlands," in Medieval Archaeology: An Encyclopedia, ed. Pam J.
Crabtree (New York: Garland Publishing, 2001), pp. 230-3
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"Taming the Waterwolf: Hydraulic Engineering and Water Management in
the Netherlands During the Middle Ages," Technology and Culture, 43
(2002): 475-99.
Work in Progress:
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"The Commons at Work: Collective Management of Land Drainage in
Late-Medieval Holland" -- book-length project
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