Category Archives: Current Research

Warrior Pursuits in Libraries around the World

Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) is now available in more than 200 academic and research libraries around the world. WorldCat is one of the best online databases … Continue reading

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Two New Reviews of Warrior Pursuits

Two new reviews of Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) have recently been published. Hamish Scott, Professor of History at the University of Glasgow, reviewed Warrior Pursuits in … Continue reading

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NEH Summer Institute on Mediterranean History

I am currently in Barcelona participating in a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute on Networks and Knowledge: Synthesis and Innovation in the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Medieval Mediterranean. This month-long faculty seminar provides an opportunity for university and college professors … Continue reading

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French History Review of Warrior Pursuits

French History has published a review of my monograph, Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). Fadi el Hage, who is based at the Institut Universitaire de Technologie at … Continue reading

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Journal of Modern History Review of Warrior Pursuits

The Journal of Modern History has published a review by Jonathan Dewald of my book, Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France. Jonathan Dewald, Professor of History at the University of Buffalo, is a noted historian … Continue reading

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Film and Fiction for French Historians

The new e-issue of Film and Fiction for French Historians is now out at a new website on the H-France platform. Historians of French history and scholars interested in historical filmmaking should find this website useful in their research and … Continue reading

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Renaissance Society of America Conference 2012

The Renaissance Society of America Conference 2012 has now concluded.  The conference, which is the premier conference on interdisciplinary Renaissance studies in North America, was held from 21-24 March at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Washington, DC. This annual conference … Continue reading

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AHR Review of Warrior Pursuits

My monograph, Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France, has been reviewed in American Historical Review, the flagship journal of the discipline of History in the United States. The review is by Ronald G. Asch, Professor … Continue reading

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Fall of the Faculty

I am currently reading Benjamin Ginsberg’s The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why it Matters (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). Ginsberg, a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, provides a damning exposé … Continue reading

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Debate over Warrior Pursuits

A new review of my book, Warrior Pursuits, has been published by Professor Jay M. Smith in H-France Review. The book review editor at H-France invited me to write a response to Smith’s review, which has now been published along … Continue reading

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