Joel Francis Harrington (born August 25, 1959) is an American historian of pre-modern Germany.
[1] He has published books for both scholarly and general audiences, and his work has been translated into thirteen foreign languages.
He has been especially interested in finding a balanced perspective on short-term micro-historical individual experiences and long-term macro-historical social structures.
[1] Harrington's most recent monograph, Dangerous Mystic,[3] provides a focused study of the life and teachings of the famous medieval friar Meister Eckhart.
Harrington was a visiting fellow at Institut für Geschichte der Medizin (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Herzog August Bibliothek (Wolfenbüttel), Clare College (Cambridge University) and at the American Academy in Berlin.