Category Archives: Warfare in the Early Modern World

Creating Communities through Coercion

Posted on December 28, 2011 by briansandberg

I will be chairing a session on “Creating Communities through Coercion in Seventeenth-Century France” at the American Historical Association (AHA) in Chicago in early January 2012. AHA Session 183 Saturday, January 7, 2012: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM Iowa Room (Chicago Marriott … Continue reading →

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Creating Communities through Coercion

Posted on December 7, 2011 by briansandberg

I will be chairing a session on “Creating Communities through Coercion in Seventeenth-Century France” at the American Historical Association (AHA) in Chicago in early January 2012. AHA Session 183 Saturday, January 7, 2012: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM Iowa Room (Chicago Marriott … Continue reading →

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Colloque Miroirs de Charles IX

Posted on November 24, 2011 by briansandberg

I am in Paris currently, participating in an interdisciplinary conference on Miroirs de Charles IX: Images, Imaginaires, Symboliques at the Institut National de l’Histoire de l’Art. The conference is tightly focused, with presentations by historians, art historians, and literary scholars … Continue reading →

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Debate over Warrior Pursuits

Posted on November 3, 2011 by briansandberg

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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Review of Warrior Pursuits by Frederic J. Baumgartner

Posted on November 2, 2011 by briansandberg

A new review of Warrior Pursuits has just been published in the latest issue of the Journal of Military History. The table of contents of this issue of JMH may be found online.  The review itself may be accessed through … Continue reading →

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Military Architecture Exhibition at the Newberry Library

Posted on September 9, 2011 by briansandberg

The Newberry Library in Chicago is currently presenting an exhibition on “Ballistics and Politics: Military Architecture Books at the Newberry.” The exhibition includes fortifications treatises, city plans, siege views, and related maps and documents from the early modern period. Some … Continue reading →

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Climate Change and Civil Conflict

Posted on August 26, 2011 by briansandberg

For decades, historians have examined evidence of correlations between climate change and civil conflict. Bad weather and sustained droughts have often been seen as causes of  peasant revolts and revolutions, such as the French Revolution of 1789, yet these arguments … Continue reading →

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Devotion, Discipline, Reform: Conference at the Newberry Library

Posted on August 6, 2011 by briansandberg

September 15 – 17, 2011 Devotion, Discipline, Reform: Sources for the Study of Religion, 1450-1640 A Conference in Honor of Sister Ann Ida Gannon, BVM The Newberry Library, Chicago http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/devotion.html Printable flier: http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/DevotionConference.pdf Speakers include: Gregory R. Crane, Classics and … Continue reading →

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The Occitan War

Posted on August 6, 2011 by briansandberg

Southern France has certainly seen its share of religious conflict and civil warfare.  My own research explores violence in the French Wars of Religion of 1562-1629, especially focusing on the latter stages of those conflicts. Larry Marvin, one of my … Continue reading →

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Millennialists believe in Impending Last Days

Posted on May 8, 2011 by briansandberg

A new group of Christian millennarians led by fundamentalist Harold Camping is proclaiming that the world will end on 21 May 2011, when true believers will be “raptured.”  The Washington Post reports on Camping and his millennialist movement in an … Continue reading →

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