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David Gallo

Faculty Name:David Gallo, PhD

Designation

Associate Professor of History

Education Qualification

  • PhD, Boston College
  • MDiv, Weston Jesuit School of Theology
  • ThM, Harvard University
  • MA, Boston College
  • BA, Assumption University

Contact Email

david.gallo@umsv.edu

Areas of Interest

  • Courtly life during reign of King Louis XIV of France
  • King Louis XIV of France
  • Versailles and court culture
  • Royal chateaux
  • Marie Antoinette
  • Old Regime France
  • Byzantine Empire (Reign of Justinian and Theodora)

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Courses

  • HIST 202 Royalties and Revolutions: Pre-Modern to the Modern Worlds
  • HIST 300 Classical Civilizations
  • HIST 301 Medieval History
  • HIST 302 Eastern Roman Empire
  • HIST 405 The Tudor Reformations
  • HIST 410 The French Monarchy, 1560-1789
  • HIST 417 Britain: Foundations of Constitutional Rule, 1660-1714
  • HIST 495 Practicum in the Teaching of History

Honors and Awards

  • Knight in a European Order of Chivalry (Capellán Caballero con Mérito in the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George, Order of Chivalry bestowed by HRH the Infante Don Carlos of Borbon-Dos Sicilias, Duke of Calabria)
  • Teacher of the Year, University of Mount Saint Vincent, 2006

Professional Affiliations

Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies (Société d’études pluridisciplinaires du dix-septième siècle français)

Publications

  • “Total Eclipse: Black Masses and the Dark Arts at the Court of the Sun King,” Supernatural Studies Association, 2nd Annual Conference, University of Mount Saint Vincent, March 29, 2019
  • “A Provincial Noble at Versailles: Jean Plantavit de la Pause, Marquis de Margon, at the Reception of the Doge of Genoa, 15 May 1685,” presented at the 33rd Annual Conference, Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies, panel on “Center and Margins/Centre et Marges, ” University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, October 18, 2014
  • “Royal Bodies, Royal Bedrooms: Louis XIV’s Lever du Roy and the Theory of the `King’s Two Bodies” Cahiers du Dix-Septième: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
  • “Seventeenth-Century Studies,” as part “Body and Soul/Le Corps et l’Âme,” University of Iowa, October 13, 2006
  • “What’s Still Grand about the Grand Siècle: The Age of Louis XIV and the Education of the Heart” Cahiers du Dix-Septième: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Actes du Colloque, 2005
  • The Château of Marly-le-Roi. Musée de Marly-le-Roi, Louveciennes, France (English language section)
  • “Royal Bodies, Royal Bedrooms: Louis XIV’s Lever du Roy and the Theory of the ‘King’s Two Bodies,'” 25th Annual Conference, Society for Interdisciplinary French