Tyler Lange

Tyler Lange is an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Washington’s Department of History, affiliated with the College of Arts & Sciences. He also serves as Secretary of the University of Washington’s Board of Regents. His academic background includes a Ph.D. and M.A. in Early Modern European History from the University of California, Berkeley, and an A.B. in History/Greek from Bowdoin College.

His research focuses on medieval and early modern European history, legal institutions, and institutional behavior, with a particular emphasis on excommunication for debt, property rights, and the interplay between law and society. He has conducted extensive work on French legal history, including studies of the Parlement of Paris and late medieval excommunication practices. Current projects explore Western Christian liturgy, vernacular delivery in religious practices, and the history of rights in medieval learned laws.

Lange is also interested in quantitative methods for historical research and teaching the deeper institutional history of global systems like the state, law, and economy. His work has been supported by grants from the Georges Lurcy Foundation, the Robbins Collection, the European Union, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

He has taught courses on early modern intellectual history, pre-modern European credit systems, the Renaissance/Reformation, and the evolution of European law at the University of California, Berkeley. His research outputs include two notable books: *The First French Reformation: Church Reform and the Origins of the Old Regime* (2014) and *Excommunication for Debt in Late Medieval France: The Business of Salvation* (2016).