Stuart M. Carroll, BA (Bristol), PhD (London)
Office: Vanbrugh College V/204
Tel: Internal 2968, External (01904) 43-2968
Fax: (01904) 432986
e-mail: smc4@york.ac.uk
Biography
Stuart Carroll is a Professor in early modern history. He has wide interests in the social, cultural and political history of France from the mid fifteenth to the mid seventeenth century.
Research interests
He began research work on political culture during the Wars of Religion and particularly on the interface between noble followings and popular religious mentalities. More recently he has published a major book on violence in early modern France. He is a two-time winner of Nancy Roelker prize for the best article published in English in early modern France (2000 &
2003 - see articles below).
Resources available for research students in York
Most research in this field entails an extended trip to France. Since its inception the department at York has had a strong emphasis on French History, and the library is well provided with primary sources which provide a foundation for research students intending to go to France.
PhD topics supervised
- 'Bordering on nationalism: sacred history and historiography in Wales and Brittany, c.1550-c.1650'
- 'The English Catholic Community in Paris in the 1580s'
Selected publications
Authored books
- Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
- Blood and Violence in Early Modern France (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
- Noble Power during the French Wars of Religion: the Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Edited books
- Cultures of Violence: Interpersonal Violence in Historical Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
Articles (selected)
- 'Vengeance, kinship solidarity and affinity in late medieval and early modern France' in D. Bates et al eds. 'Liens personnels, réseaux, solididarités en France et dans les îles Britanniques (Xie-Xxe siècle)' (Publications de la Sorbonne, 2006)
- 'Acheter la grâce en France du XVe au XVIIe siècle' in B. Garnot ed., Justice et argent: les crimes et les peines pécuniaires en Framce du XIIIe au XXIe siècle (Dijon, 2005)
- 'Vengeance and Conspiracy during the French Wars of Religion', in J. Swann and B. Coward eds., Conspiracy & Conspiracy Theory in Early Modern Europe: From the Waldensians to the French Revolution (Ashgate, 2004)
- 'The Peace in the Feud in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France', Past & Present 178 (2003), 74-115. (Winner of the Nancy Roelker prize for the best article published in English in early modern France (2003)
- 'The Compromise of Charles Cardinal de Lorraine: New Evidence', Journal of Ecclesiastical History 54 (2003), 469-83
- 'The Revolt of Paris, 1588: Aristrocratic Insurgency and the mobilization of Popular Support'. French Historical Studies (2000) (Winner of the Nancy Roelker prize for the best article published in English in early modern France (2000)
- ‘The Guise affinity and popular protest during the Wars of Religion’ French History (1995)
- ‘Revisionism and orthodoxy in some recent works on early modern France’ Historical Journal (1995)