About

Muriel C McClendon is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Affairs in the UCLA Department of History. Her research focuses on Europe, contributing to the understanding of European history through her academic work. She is involved in graduate education and departmental leadership, supporting the development of future scholars in the field.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Philosophy
• Law
• Art
• Public administration
• History

Selected publications

• Women, the Courts, and Urban Government in Early Reformation Norwich

  Early Modern Women An Interdisciplinary Journal · 2020 · 1 citations

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  • Art
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• The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Notes from a Former DGS

  Sixteenth Century Journal · 2019-03-01

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• Concrete assessment and service life extension planning for Morris Sheppard Dam

  2019-08-08

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  Les États-Unis sont confrontés à une crise : répondre à l‘infrastructure vieillissante. Le barrage de Morris Sheppard à Graford (Texas) fournit un exemple de la façon dont un propriétaire fait face à un barrage en béton vieillissant. Ce barrage du type Ambursen, mesurant 45,7 m de haut et 500 m de long, a 80 ans et retient 686 m3 de l’eau. Des problèmes de fondation ont entraîné un déplacement de 120 mm en aval de certains contreforts, poussés par la sous-pression dans les strates rocheuses horizontales. Les modifications (ballasts en béton massif et puits drainants) effectuées en 1991 ont stabilisé la structure. La fermeture en 2007 de l’usine hydroélectrique originale de 25 kilowatt a changé le fonctionnement du barrage, et ensuite la qualité de l’eau dans le réservoir. Des contaminants de l’eau déclenchant la corrosion (c.-à-d., chlorure, sulfate, et des producteurs du sulfure d’hydrogène présumés) contribuent à la détérioration du béton et de l’acier, un processus influencé également par des périodes de sécheresse. Des observations visuelles révèlent un avancement de la fissuration, de l’éclatement, et du délaminage du béton, et de la corrosion des aciers d’armature et des vannes de déversoir. Ce document traite du plan et de la stratégie pour la mise en œuvre par étapes d’un projet de l’évaluation de béton et de la prolongation de la durée de vie qui intègre la méthode d’analyse des modes de défaillance possibles (PFMA) et le processus décisionnel tenant compte du risque (RIDM) afin de prioriser les études, les essais, et les réparations ou les remplacements des éléments.

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• Reimagining a Community

  Journal of Urban History · 2015-02-05

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  This essay examines a work stoppage that was planned by Norwich’s worsted weaver apprentices in 1610, but that never took place. In depositions taken after the plot was revealed, the apprentices told local authorities that their aim in leaving their work was to call attention to the problem of laborers in the industry that had not served apprenticeships, but were nevertheless hired to work as journeymen. This dramatic and unusual action that the apprentices took was the result of a confluence of particular circumstances in early Stuart Norwich. The combination of a difficult local economy, the impact of nonapprenticed laborers on their future prospects, and the eruption of plague in 1609-1610 drove the apprentices to imagine and try to create a new role for themselves in the weaving trade and in urban society. Their efforts, although ineffective, nevertheless reveal the imaginable limits of social politics between apprentices and their masters.

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• Religious toleration and the Reformation

  2010-02-16

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  Early Modern Women An Interdisciplinary Journal · 2008-09-01

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• Women, Religious Dissent, and Urban Authority in Early Reformation Norwich

  Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks · 2008-01-01

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  In July 1557 Elizabeth Cooper was burned as a Protestant heretic at the Lollards Pit just outside Norwich's Bishopgate. She was the wife of a pewterer and lived in the city's St. Andrew's parish. She had, apparently, repudiated her Protestant beliefs earlier in Queen Mary Tudor's reign, although no record of any formal abjuration survives. That renunciation had, however, left her "greatly troubled inwardly." As a result, she went into St. Andrew's church one day while a service was in progress and publicly rescinded her recantation of Protestantism. She told the assembled worshippers that "she was heartily sorry that she ever did it [i.e., recanted], willing the people not to be deceived, neither to take her doings for an example." After that declaration Cooper left the church.

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• Religious toleration and the Reformation: Norwich magistrates in the sixteenth century

  2003-09-02

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  In the historiography of religious toleration in Europe, the sixteenth century is considered to have been a dark period. With the splintering of the “universal church”, prejudice and persecution marked much of the era’s religious history. In England there was no shortage of expressions of religious bigotry: Henry VIII’s execution of the Carthusian monks who refused the Oath of Supremacy, the burning of approximately three hundred Protestant heretics under Mary Tudor and Queen Elizabeth’s execution of Catholic priests on charges of treason. Although toleration of dissenting religious groups was favoured by a few intellectuals in Europe such as Sebastian Castellio, the professor of Greek at Basel, and actually extended in France, albeit temporarily, there was little similar support for it in England.1

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• A Moveable Feast: Saint George's Day Celebrations and Religious Change in Early Modern England

  Journal of British Studies · 1999-01-01 · 27 citations

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  Recent writing on the English Reformation has been dominated by the so-called revisionists. While not all revisionist historians have advanced an identical interpretation of the Reformation, the broad outline of their argument is neatly summarized in the opening lines of J. J. Scarisbrick's The Reformation and the English People : “On the whole, English men and women did not want the Reformation and most of them were slow to accept it when it came.” While earlier writers argued that the Reformation period represented a sharp break in English history with a definitive rejection of Catholicism, revisionists have asserted that there was considerable continuity in the religious life of sixteenth-century men and women. The Catholic Church was strong and vital and commanded considerable loyalty among the laity, and changes to religious doctrine and practice generated considerable hostility. The demise of the Catholic Church in England was not assured, and the success of the Protestant Reformation was the result of a long straggle fought from above that was won only during the middle years of Elizabeth's reign. The revisionist interpretation has commanded wide attention and support. It currently stands, in many respects, as the new orthodoxy of English Reformation historiography. Most historians now concur on the profound attachment of many men and women to the doctrine and worship of the Catholic Church and their reluctance to abandon them. Nevertheless, a number of questions about the revisionists' interpretation of the Reformation and English religiosity remain.

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• The Quiet Reformation: Magistrates and the Emergence of Protestantism in Tudor Norwich

  Renaissance and Reformation · 1999-07-01 · 19 citations

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  This lucid and highly readable account of the Reformation in Tudor Norwich seizes upon an important emerging issue, one which is likely to be the subject of consid- erable future discussion among scholars of religious change in the sixteenth century: were violent clashes, disruptive controversies, and deep fissures within the community the inevitable accompaniment of the Reformation?For decades, historians have been mesmerized by the movement's less endearing characteristics: bitter enmity and savage destructiveness.More recently, attention has turned to another alto- gether more peaceful pattern of reform.Accordingly, the results of McClendon 's considerable research represent a valuable case study, as scholars go about assessing the innovative notion of a "quiet" reform.Norwich was the largest, most populous, and most economically active of England's provincial towns during the sixteenth century.It was also an important medieval religious center, which, in turn, found itself deeply affected by the Protestant movement.What it did not experience was the rampant confessional conflict that historians have traced for other English urban centers, such as Bristol

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Frequent coauthors

• S.S. Vaghti

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• G.S. Lund

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• Ian Green

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• Raymond A. Mentzer

  University of Iowa

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