Caroline Litzenberger

Caroline Litzenberger
Born
Caroline J. Wiles

(1942-11-02)November 2, 1942
Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
DiedOctober 27, 2025(2025-10-27) (aged 82)
Clackamas, Oregon, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Washington (B.S.)
Portland State University (MA),
Trinity College, Cambridge (Ph.D.)
OccupationsHistorian, author, educator, computer programmer, Episcopal priest
PartnerJanet Plog
Children2

Caroline Litzenberger (née Caroline J. Wiles; November 2, 1942 – October 27, 2025) was an American historian, author, Episcopal priest,[1] and educator. She specialized in the history of the early-modern England.[2]

Early life and education

Caroline Litzenberger was born on November 2, 1942, in Tacoma, Washington.[3] Her parents were Luther Theodore Wiles and Barbara Patricia More Wiles.[3] She attended Gig Harbor High School from where she graduated in 1960.[3]

Litzenberger completed a B.S. degree at the University of Washington in mathematics with concentration in probability and statistics, and a minor in history in 1964.[3] She received a M.A. degree in 1989 from Portland State University;[3] and a Ph.D. in 1993 at Trinity College, Cambridge in England.[3]

Career and late life

In her early career, Litzenberger worked as a computer programmer for Boeing in Seattle starting in 1964.[3][4] She later worked as a systems analyst for the Port of Portland in the 1980s.[4]

Litzenberger was a professor at West Virginia University in Morgantown from 1994 until 1999.[3] In 2002, she became an associate professor of history at the Portland State University in Portland.[3]

In January 2000, she became a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[3]

She was a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church.[3]

Litzenberger died of multiple myeloma and complications of rheumatoid arthritis on 27 October 2025, in Clackamas, Oregon.[1]

Selected publications

  • The English Reformation and the Laity: Gloucestershire, 1540–1580. Cambridge University Press. 1997. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511582011. ISBN 978-0-521-47545-7. OCLC 36343258.[5][6][7][8]
  • Litzenberger, Caroline (1998) [1997]. "The Coming of Protestantism to Elizabethan Tewkesbury". In Collinson, Patrick; Craig, John (eds.). The Reformation in English Towns, 1500–1640. London: Macmillan Education UK. pp. 79–93. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-26832-0_5. ISBN 978-1-350-48782-6. OCLC 1474907474.[9][10]
  • "Local responses to changes in religious policy based on evidence from Gloucestershire wills (1540–1580)". Continuity and Change. 8 (3): 417–439. December 1993. doi:10.1017/S0268416000002174. ISSN 0268-4160.
  • "Richard Cheyney, Bishop of Gloucester: An Infidel in Religion?". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 25 (3): 567–584. September 1, 1994. doi:10.2307/2542634. ISSN 0361-0160. JSTOR 2542634.

References

  1. 1 2 "Remembering The Rev. Dr. Caroline J. Litzenberger". St. Michael's All Angels Episcopal Church. December 11, 2025. Retrieved April 16, 2026.
  2. ↑ "Scholar to conduct course on lay piety in England during the Reformation". The Oregonian. May 19, 1994. p. 24. Retrieved April 17, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Caroline Litzenberger Obituary (11/02/1942 - 10/27/2025)". The Oregonian. December 7, 2025. Retrieved April 16, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. 1 2 "Smart women, smart choices". The Oregonian. September 8, 1986. p. 19. Retrieved April 17, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ Questier, Michael (June 2000). "Darren Oldridge, Religion and Society in Early Stuart England; Caroline Litzenberger, The English Reformation and the Laity: Gloucestershire, 1540–1580". The Journal of Modern History (book review). 72 (2): 509–512. doi:10.1086/316003. ISSN 0022-2801.
  6. ↑ Manning, Roger B. (1998). "The English Reformation and the Laity: Gloucestershire, 1540-1580 by Caroline Litzenberger". The Catholic Historical Review (book review). 84 (4): 771–772. doi:10.1353/cat.1998.0212. ISSN 1534-0708.
  7. ↑ Craig, John (September 1999). "The English Reformation and the Laity, Gloucestershire, 1540–1580. By Caroline Litzenberger. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xviii + 218 pp. $54.95 cloth". Church History (book review). 68 (3): 713–715. doi:10.2307/3170069. ISSN 0009-6407. JSTOR 3170069.
  8. ↑ Marshall, Peter (1998). "Reviewed work: The English Laity and the Reformation: Gloucestershire, 1540-1580, Caroline Litzenberger". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 29 (4): 1115–1116. doi:10.2307/2543373. JSTOR 2543373.
  9. ↑ "Out And About". Malvern Gazette and Ledbury Reporter. December 2, 1994. p. 19. Retrieved April 17, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "History in print". The Citizen. November 30, 1994. p. 8. Retrieved April 17, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
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