The Franciscans, the Holy Land, and the Kings of France in the Age of Early European Imperialism

Professor Megan Armstrong (McMaster University)

Megan Armstrong is Associate Professor of History at McMaster University, and the author of The Politics of Piety: Franciscan Preachers during the Wars of Religion, 1560-1600. Her current research interests lie in transregional history, and she is preparing a study of French Franciscan missions in France, the Holy Land and New Spain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.