Gregory Hanlon
Dalhousie University, History, Faculty Member
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History of Sociability, Behavioural history, 17th-century Italy, Historical Anthropology, Routine infanticide in the West, History, and 69 moreMilitary History, Italian Studies, Routine infanticide Europe, Battlefield eyewitnesses, History & Human Universals, Famine stress in past time, Material Culture, Early Modern Catholicism, Power and Authority Early Modern Europe, 16th and 17th century Mediterranean, Evolutionary Psychology, Cooperation (Evolutionary Psychology), Italian Cultural Studies, Historical Geography, Early Modern economic and social history, Early Modern History, Italian (European History), Early Modern Cartography, Social Norms (Psychology), 17th-Century Studies, Microhistory, Social Networks, History of the Family, Baroque Civilization, Early Modern Europe, Thirty Years' War, HISTORY OF CRIME AND LAW, Early Modern France, Early modern Spain, Early Modern Italy, Spanish Monarchy, Notarial Sources, Religious Conversion and Converts in the Early Modern Mediterranean context, Parish Registers, Early Modern Armies, Nobility, Human Ethology, Sarah B. Hrdy, Serge Moscovici, Raymond Boudon, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Fernand Braudel, Criminal Justice History, Deep History, Early Modern Military History, Milan in the Early Modern Era, Italy (Early Modern History), The Farnese of Parma and Piacenza, Grand Tour, Renaissance Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Sex ratio, Historical Demography, Feudalism and Lordship, Rural Social History, Little Ice Age, Anthropology of War, War and violence, Violence (Anthropology), War Studies, Demography, The Gonzaga of Mantua, Social History, New Military History, Revue Historique des Armées. Dernier numéro en ligne : 265 | 2011 Les étrangers dans l'armée française après 1870, Behavioral Sciences, History of Savoy's Duchy, Early Modern Warfare, and Yves-Marie Bercé edit
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Munro Professor of History and Distinguished Research Professor at Dalhousie University: Trained in France in the Ann... moreMunro Professor of History and Distinguished Research Professor at Dalhousie University: Trained in France in the Annales tradition, I study behaviour in historical societies with the aid of the behavioural sciences broadly, from human ethology, to evolutionary psychology, rational actor sociology (Boudon) and anthropology. This extends and updates the Annales project, which combined history with the social and behavioural sciences broadly speaking. Ideologies take a back seat in this neo-Darwinian approach.
Over the years this has resulted in books on religious history, military history and a couple of close studies of communities in 17th-century Italy and France where it was possible to situate everyone by name over the space of two generations. The textbook on early modern Italy 1550-1800 (2000) was the first synthesis aimed at that period in any language. Another textbook on early modern military history (2020), embracing almost all of Europe between 1500 and 1750 is the first wide-ranging synthesis in several decades.
"Death Control in the West 1500-1800" (2022) analyzes sex ratios from more than 600,000 baptisms and a score of status animarum censuses, analyzes dozens of rural and urban communities in Italy, France and England. It demonstrates that post-partum abortion was a key component of the Western demographic system, similar to most other peoples on the planet.
Present research focuses on display behaviour in Baroque Italy, ca. 1570 to ca. 1740, from top to bottom of urban and rural society in Farnese Parma and Piacenza. It begins with an exploration of universal aesthetic instincts and their wider social ramifications in early modern Europe. edit
Thesis; Culture et comportements des élites urbaines en Agenais-Condomois au 17e siècle. Jury composed of Georges Dupeux (president), Paul Butel, Jean-Pierre Poussou (thesis director) and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (outside examiner).... more
Thesis; Culture et comportements des élites urbaines en Agenais-Condomois au 17e siècle. Jury composed of Georges Dupeux (president), Paul Butel, Jean-Pierre Poussou (thesis director) and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (outside examiner). Awarded a 'mention très bien à l'unanimité'
Married Europeans, like people everywhere around the world, practiced neo-natal infanticide on some considerable scale until the modern age, by no means limited to girls or newborns of poor families. This is the first substantial... more
Married Europeans, like people everywhere around the world, practiced neo-natal infanticide on some considerable scale until the modern age, by no means limited to girls or newborns of poor families. This is the first substantial exploration of the phenomenon, applied to Italy, France and England over the entire span of the early modern period. With the collaboration of Ciara Quigley, Domenic Rossi, Robin Greene Cann, Evan Johnson and Laura Hynes Jenkins.
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Economic History, Ethology, Evolutionary Psychology, Historical Anthropology, French History, and 15 moreHistorical Demography, Women's History, Early Modern History, Gender and Sexuality, Tudor England, Early Modern England, Early Modern Europe, History of the Family, Social History, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern France, HISTORY OF CRIME AND LAW, Early Modern Catholicism, Religious Studies, and Infanticide
This most recent edition of the bibliography contains almost 21,200 titles in English (64%) and French (36%), with an introductory section on historiography. It deals with every aspect of Italian history and culture from the Late... more
This most recent edition of the bibliography contains almost 21,200 titles in English (64%) and French (36%), with an introductory section on historiography. It deals with every aspect of Italian history and culture from the Late Renaissance to the French Revolution.
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Military History, Historical Geography, Historical Anthropology, 17th Century & Early Modern Philosophy, Early Modern History, and 52 moreItalian (European History), Italian Studies, Material Culture Studies, History of the Book, Historiography, Gender and Sexuality, Early Modern Europe, Italian Cultural Studies, Italian Literature, 17th-Century Studies, Nobility, History of Florence, Intellectual History of the Baroque Period, Baroque Music, History of the Family, Early Modern Intellectual History, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern Italian Literature, Power and authority in the Early Modern period, Early Modern economic and social history, Early Modern Science, Baroque art and architecture, Italian Baroque art, HISTORY OF CRIME AND LAW, 16th Century Italian Art, 18th Century Art, Early Modern Political Thought, 17th Century Italian Art, Consumption and Material Culture, Early Modern Catholicism, 18th Century, Annales school, 17th-century Italian Opera, Fernand Braudel, Early modern Spain, 17th 18th century Italian architecture, Aristocracy, Early Modern Warfare, Papal History, History of Venice, the history of southern Italy & Sicily, Early modern diplomacy, late medieval and early modern history of European nobility and courts, Spanish Monarchy, Cultural History of Naples and Campania, Milan in the Early Modern Era, History of Travel and Tourism, History of the Papal State (early modern age), 17th-18th century Italian cantata and serenata, 16th and 17th century Mediterranean, and History of Philosophy
This is the first study to propose that Europeans practiced neonatal infanticide on a large scale in the early modern era, based on careful examination of sex-ratios in southern Tuscany from the 16th to the 18th century. Published in... more
This is the first study to propose that Europeans practiced neonatal infanticide on a large scale in the early modern era, based on careful examination of sex-ratios in southern Tuscany from the 16th to the 18th century. Published in Quaderni Storici (in Italian) in 2003. The project, extended to France and to North America is ongoing and largely confirms this first research.
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Cultural History, Human Behavioral Ecology, Historical Demography, Women's History, Early Modern History, and 13 moreFamily studies, Gender and Sexuality, Anthropology of Children and Childhood, History of Childhood and Youth, Early Modern Europe, History of Childhood, Microhistory, History of the Family, Social History, Routine infanticide Europe, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern economic and social history, and Infanticide
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This talk (which alludes to many authors but contains no notes) suggests how neo-Darwinian theory enriches our understanding of war, which is an important human universal. Passing in review some important studies in anthropology, it... more
This talk (which alludes to many authors but contains no notes) suggests how neo-Darwinian theory enriches our understanding of war, which is an important human universal. Passing in review some important studies in anthropology, it concludes with some recent attempts in historical writing to increase our knowledge about how men behave in combat and on campaign.
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Military History, War Studies, Habsburg Studies, Early Modern Europe, 17th-century Italy, and 11 moreEarly Modern Italy, Thirty Years War, Thirty Years' War, Militias, Anthropology of War, Spanish Monarchy, Milan in the Early Modern Era, Early Modern Armies, Total War in Europe, Early Modern Military History, and The Farnese of Parma and Piacenza
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Historical Demography, Italian (European History), Material Culture Studies, Rural History, Gender and Sexuality, and 13 moreEarly Modern Europe, Italy (Early Modern History), 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern economic and social history, HISTORY OF CRIME AND LAW, Family history, Fernand Braudel, Infanticide, Little Ice Age, Parish Records, Famine stress in past time, and History of Tuscany
This book is the first synthesis of European military history in several decades, embracing the greater part of the continent and the Mediterranean shores. It draws upon a wide range of international literature and contains much new... more
This book is the first synthesis of European military history in several decades, embracing the greater part of the continent and the Mediterranean shores. It draws upon a wide range of international literature and contains much new material. Routledge ISBN 9781138368989
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European History, Military History, Economic History, Military Science, Ottoman History, and 15 moreEarly Modern History, Renaissance Studies, War Studies, Naval History, Central European history, Habsburg Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern Britain, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern France, War and society, Holy Roman Empire, Dutch History, and Spanish Monarchy
This small book constitutes a close anthropology of a single Tuscan village and the farms around it, during the space of two generations in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the first history book to apply the lessons of human and primate... more
This small book constitutes a close anthropology of a single Tuscan village and the farms around it, during the space of two generations in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the first history book to apply the lessons of human and primate ethology to a broad spectrum of behaviors, it studies the population taken as a collection of individuals with varying and often conflicting interests and temperaments. Underpinning the work is a wide variety of sources allowing the historian to examine these people and their predicaments in great detail. It studies in turn their governance, co-operation, competition, reproduction and invention.
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Evolutionary Psychology, Historical Geography, Human Behavioral Ecology, Historical Demography, Early Modern History, and 21 moreItalian (European History), Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Rural History, Mediterranean Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), Nobility, Social History, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, Power and authority in the Early Modern period, Early Modern economic and social history, Feudalism and Lordship, Rural Social History, Sex ratio, Southern Tuscany, 16th and 17th century Mediterranean, Tuscany XVIIth-XVIIIth Century, Famine stress in past time, Parish Registers, and Peasant Societies
This small book from 2007 is one of the first to explore a wide range of human behaviour in historical time, a Tuscan village and its surrounding farms over two generations in the seventeenth century. This first part (of three) introduces... more
This small book from 2007 is one of the first to explore a wide range of human behaviour in historical time, a Tuscan village and its surrounding farms over two generations in the seventeenth century. This first part (of three) introduces the approach based in human ethology and evolutionary psychology, examines the governance of the community (participation and hierarchy) and how contemporaries lived together for mutual benefit (sociability and cooperation).
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Economic History, Historical Geography, Human Behavioral Ecology, Historical Anthropology, Historical Sociology, and 15 moreHistorical Demography, Early Modern History, Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Peasant Studies, Rural History, Early Modern Europe, Political History, History of the Family, Social History, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern economic and social history, Feudalism and Lordship, Famine Studies, and Human Ethology
This final section of the book examines how people coped with events they could not control. The onset of the Little Ice Age and the great 17th-century depression forced villagers to adapt and to restructure the rural economy. The apex of... more
This final section of the book examines how people coped with events they could not control. The onset of the Little Ice Age and the great 17th-century depression forced villagers to adapt and to restructure the rural economy. The apex of the Counter-Reformation coincided with this downturn, as people appealed to higher powers for their salvation. Almost imperceptibly their social and political worlds expanded beyond the village, making them part of a larger Tuscan state.
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Economic History, Evolutionary Psychology, Historical Geography, Human Behavioral Ecology, Historical Anthropology, and 12 moreHistorical Sociology, Early Modern History, Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Rural History, Early Modern Europe, Political History, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern economic and social history, Religious History, Early Modern Catholicism, and Human Ethology
Second part of a pioneering work examining a Tuscan village of the seventeenth century in the light of human behavioural universals. The chapter on competition studies the fault lines of rural communities from 500 criminal trials,... more
Second part of a pioneering work examining a Tuscan village of the seventeenth century in the light of human behavioural universals. The chapter on competition studies the fault lines of rural communities from 500 criminal trials, thousands of lawsuits and property damage claims and how they were managed. Reproduction deals with the formation of couples, the raising of children and the issues stemming from cohabitation. It contains one of the first close studies of sex-ratios and the reality of common neo-natal infanticide.
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Evolutionary Psychology, Human Behavioral Ecology, Historical Anthropology, Historical Sociology, Early Modern History, and 15 moreItalian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Peasant Studies, Rural History, Criminal Justice History, Early Modern Europe, Italy (Early Modern History), History of the Family, Social History, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern economic and social history, Early Modern Catholicism, Feudalism and Lordship, Infanticide, and Human Ethology
A closely-researched and detailed study of the operations and tactics of early modern armies, it uses the French and Savoyard invasion of Spanish Lombardy in 1636 to explore warfare through a neo-Darwinian lens. This emphasizes the... more
A closely-researched and detailed study of the operations and tactics of early modern armies, it uses the French and Savoyard invasion of Spanish Lombardy in 1636 to explore warfare through a neo-Darwinian lens. This emphasizes the universal features of human behavior and psychology as they relate to violence and war. Oxford University Press, January 2016, Paperback version 2018; Italian translation LEG 2018.
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Military History, Evolutionary Psychology, Military Science, Strategy (Military Science), Historical Anthropology, and 27 moreEarly Modern History, Italian (European History), Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, War Studies, Seventeenth Century, Violence (Anthropology), Habsburg Studies, Early Modern Europe, 17th-Century Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), Nobility, Cultural History of War, Social History, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, Power and authority in the Early Modern period, Early Modern France, War and society, War and violence, 17th century Europe, 17th century France, Early modern Spain, Thirty Years' War, Human Ethology, Spanish Monarchy, and Early Modern Military History
This new book examines the misadventure of young warmonger Duke Odoardo of Parma, keen to make his reputation in the Thirty Years’ War as an ally of France. In addition to constituting a rare study of the Italian theatre of Europe’s first... more
This new book examines the misadventure of young warmonger Duke Odoardo of Parma, keen to make his reputation in the Thirty Years’ War as an ally of France. In addition to constituting a rare study of the Italian theatre of Europe’s first Great War, it contains a soldier-by-soldier analysis of the duke’s army in detail unavailable for any country of the period. It also studies the impact of war and occupation on the duchy’s population through a close examination of parish registers in city and country. This work helps explain the gradual marginalization of Italian states with respect to great power politics of the modern era.
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Military History, Historical Geography, Historical Demography, Early Modern History, Italian (European History), and 29 moreItalian Studies, Renaissance Studies, War Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Early Modern Europe, 17th-Century Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), Nobility, Social History, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, Power and authority in the Early Modern period, Early Modern France, 17th century France, Feudalism and Lordship, Early modern Spain, Spanish empire, Rural Social History, Thirty Years' War, Anthropology of War, Spanish Monarchy, Late medieval and early modern military history, 16th and 17th century Mediterranean, History of Military Recruitment, Early Modern Armies, Battlefield eyewitnesses, Famine stress in past time, Parish Registers, and The Farnese of Parma and Piacenza
Euro 14,00 " Molti hanno lodato lo spirito d'animo del duca di Parma, un esempio singolare e mostra spiritosa, della franchezza di un animo degno di Principe libero, e di imparare ai Spagnoli come si dovevano tenere conto dei principi... more
Euro 14,00 " Molti hanno lodato lo spirito d'animo del duca di Parma, un esempio singolare e mostra spiritosa, della franchezza di un animo degno di Principe libero, e di imparare ai Spagnoli come si dovevano tenere conto dei principi italiani, e con qual rispetto si deva con essi procedere. Altri hanno biasimate le azioni del duca, che era degli primi anni imbevuto di pensieri grandi, di pretenzioni maggiori della sua condizione, che non c'era buona e sufficiente ragione di rompere con la Spagna "
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Military History, Historical Geography, Historical Demography, Early Modern History, Italian (European History), and 31 moreRenaissance Studies, War Studies, Violence (Anthropology), Habsburg Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Early Modern Europe, 17th-Century Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), Nobility, Cultural History of War, Social History, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, Power and authority in the Early Modern period, Early Modern France, 17th century France, Feudalism and Lordship, Early modern Spain, Spanish empire, Rural Social History, Thirty Years' War, Siege Warfare, Anthropology of War, Spanish Monarchy, Storia moderna, Late medieval and early modern military history, Storia Militare, Early Modern Armies, Louis XIII, Parish Registers, and The Farnese of Parma and Piacenza
The first single-author textbook (in any language) focusing on the long period between the Council of Trent and the French Revolution, this work constitutes a compendium of basic information about every area of Italy over those 250 years.... more
The first single-author textbook (in any language) focusing on the long period between the Council of Trent and the French Revolution, this work constitutes a compendium of basic information about every area of Italy over those 250 years. As a didactic text first and foremost, the content ranges from the geography of the peninsula, to the political, social, cultural and economic life manifested in city and country, with an eye to Italy’s relative position in Europe. It also constitutes a synthesis of Italian, French, British and North American scholarship over the last two generations.
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The first and most comprehensive textbook describing all aspects of Italian history and civilization between the Council of Trent and the French Revolution.
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History, Military History, Historical Geography, Historical Anthropology, Historical Demography, and 36 moreEarly Modern History, Italian (European History), Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Early Modern Europe, Italian Cultural Studies, 17th-Century Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), 16th Century (History), History of the Family, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern Italian Literature, Early Modern economic and social history, 17th- and 18th-century Philosophy, Early Modern Catholicism, 17th century Europe, 17th and 18th Century History, History of Crime and Punishment, History of Venice, the history of southern Italy & Sicily, Spanish Monarchy, Milan in the Early Modern Era, History of the Papal State (early modern age), 16th Century Florence, Italian Enlightenment, Italian Renaissance Studies, The Gonzaga of Mantua, Republic of Genoa, History of Tuscany, Piedmont History, History of the Venetian Republic, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, History of the Kingdom of Naples, and History of Modena
The first and most comprehensive textbook describing all aspects of Italian history and civilization between the Council of Trent and the French Revolution.
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History, Military History, Historical Geography, Historical Anthropology, Historical Demography, and 37 moreEarly Modern History, Italian (European History), Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Early Modern Europe, Italian Cultural Studies, 17th-Century Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), 16th Century (History), History of the Family, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern Italian Literature, Early Modern economic and social history, 17th- and 18th-century Philosophy, Early Modern Catholicism, 17th century Europe, 17th and 18th Century History, History of Crime and Punishment, History of Venice, the history of southern Italy & Sicily, Spanish Monarchy, 18th-Century Studies, Milan in the Early Modern Era, History of the Papal State (early modern age), 16th Century Florence, Italian Enlightenment, Italian Renaissance Studies, The Gonzaga of Mantua, Republic of Genoa, History of Tuscany, Piedmont History, History of the Venetian Republic, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, History of the Kingdom of Naples, and History of Modena
The first and most comprehensive textbook describing all aspects of Italian history and civilization between the Council of Trent and the French Revolution.
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History, Military History, Historical Geography, Historical Anthropology, Historical Demography, and 33 moreEarly Modern History, Italian (European History), Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Early Modern Europe, Italian Cultural Studies, 17th-Century Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), 16th Century (History), History of the Family, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern Italian Literature, Early Modern economic and social history, Early Modern Catholicism, 17th and 18th Century History, History of Crime and Punishment, History of Venice, the history of southern Italy & Sicily, Spanish Monarchy, Milan in the Early Modern Era, History of the Papal State (early modern age), 16th Century Florence, Italian Renaissance Studies, The Gonzaga of Mantua, Republic of Genoa, History of Tuscany, Piedmont History, History of the Venetian Republic, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, History of the Kingdom of Naples, and History of Modena
The first and most comprehensive textbook describing all aspects of Italian history and civilization between the Council of Trent and the French Revolution.
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History, Military History, Historical Geography, Historical Anthropology, Historical Demography, and 31 moreEarly Modern History, Italian (European History), Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Early Modern Europe, Italian Cultural Studies, 17th-Century Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), 16th Century (History), Early Modern Italy, Early Modern Italian Literature, Early Modern economic and social history, Early Modern Catholicism, 17th and 18th Century History, History of Crime and Punishment, History of Venice, the history of southern Italy & Sicily, Spanish Monarchy, Milan in the Early Modern Era, History of the Papal State (early modern age), 16th Century Florence, Italian Renaissance Studies, The Gonzaga of Mantua, Republic of Genoa, History of Tuscany, Piedmont History, History of the Venetian Republic, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, History of the Kingdom of Naples, and History of Modena
The first and most comprehensive textbook describing all aspects of Italian history and civilization between the Council of Trent and the French Revolution.
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History, Military History, Historical Geography, Historical Anthropology, Historical Demography, and 33 moreEarly Modern History, Italian (European History), Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Early Modern Europe, Italian Cultural Studies, 17th-Century Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), History of the Family, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern Italian Literature, Early Modern economic and social history, Early Modern Catholicism, 17th and 18th Century History, History of Crime and Punishment, History of Venice, the history of southern Italy & Sicily, Spanish Monarchy, Milan in the Early Modern Era, History of the Papal State (early modern age), 16th Century Florence, Italian Renaissance Studies, The Gonzaga of Mantua, Republic of Genoa, History of Tuscany, Piedmont History, History of the Venetian Republic, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, History of the Kingdom of Naples, History of Modena, and 16th century studies
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Cultural History, Art History, Early Modern History, Italian (European History), Italian Studies, and 51 moreEighteenth-Century literature, Renaissance Studies, History of Science, Tridentine Catholicism, Eighteenth Century History, Seventeenth Century, Enlightenment, Habsburg Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Early Modern Europe, Jesuit history, Italian Literature, 17th-Century Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Travel & Tourism, 16th Century (History), History of Florence, Early Modern Literature, Venetian History, Intellectual History of the Baroque Period, Early Modern Church History, History of Art, Church History, Baroque Music, Social History, History of the Mediterranean, Early Modern Intellectual History, Italian Renaissance Art, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern economic and social history, Italian Baroque art, Renaissance Rome, Courts and Elites (History), Early Modern Catholicism, Court history, Republic of Venice, Venice and the Veneto, The Kingdom of Naples, Papal History, 16th century Venice, Council of Trent, History of Venice, Papacy (Early Modern and Modern Church History), Counter-Reformation, History of Genoa, 17th Century and Early Modern Philosophy, History of the Papal State (early modern age), Tuscany XVIIth-XVIIIth Century, Italian Baroque Music, and Seventeenth Century Italian Historiography
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This book is the first close study of religious coexistence and practical toleration in the early modern era. Winner of the 1992 Brewer Prize, American Society for Church History, as the best book manuscript for any field of religious... more
This book is the first close study of religious coexistence and practical toleration in the early modern era. Winner of the 1992 Brewer Prize, American Society for Church History, as the best book manuscript for any field of religious history in 1992. Runner-up (after initial tie) of the prize awarded by the American Huguenot Society.
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History, Historical Anthropology, Behavioral Sciences, French History, Social Networks, and 29 moreHistorical Demography, Early Modern History, Evolution of cooperation (Evolutionary Biology), Reformation History, Reformation Studies, Catholic Reform, Calvinism, Early Modern Europe, Religious Conversion, 17th-Century Studies, History of Sociability, Microhistory, Social Norms, Social History, Early Modern France, French Wars of Religion, Ancien Regime France, Early Modern Catholicism, Languedoc, French Protestantism, Religious Studies, Louis XIV, Histoire de l'Église, Catholic Church History, Counter-Reformation, Huguenots, Aquitaine, Serge Moscovici, and Louis XIII
The first detailed study of local coexistence between Catholics and Protestants in Europe, focused on the Aquitaine town of Layrac across most of the 17th century.
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French History, Early Modern History, Local History, Reformation History, Catholic Reform, and 17 moreCalvinism, Seventeenth Century, Religious Conversion, Religious Conversion and Converts in the Early Modern Mediterranean context, Early Modern France, French Wars of Religion, Ancien Regime France, Early Modern Catholicism, Languedoc, French Protestantism, Louis XIV, Histoire de l'Église, Catholic Church History, Counter-Reformation, Aquitaine, Louis XIII, and French Huguenots
The first close study of Catholic and Protestant coexistence in local communities across most of the 17th century.
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French History, Early Modern History, Local History, Reformation History, Catholic Reform, and 16 moreCalvinism, Seventeenth Century, Religious Conversion, Early Modern France, French Wars of Religion, Ancien Regime France, Early Modern Catholicism, Languedoc, French Protestantism, Louis XIV, Histoire de l'Église, Catholic Church History, Counter-Reformation, Aquitaine, Louis XIII, and French Huguenots
The first close study of Catholic and Protestant coexistence in France, across most of the 17th century.
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French History, Early Modern History, Local History, Reformation History, Catholic Reform, and 18 moreCalvinism, Seventeenth Century, Early Modern Europe, Religious Conversion, Early Modern France, French Wars of Religion, Ancien Regime France, Early Modern Catholicism, Languedoc, Religious Toleration, French Protestantism, Louis XIV, Histoire de l'Église, Catholic Church History, Counter-Reformation, Aquitaine, Louis XIII, and French Huguenots
The first close study of religious coexistence and practical toleration between Catholics and Protestants, across most of the 17th century.
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French History, Early Modern History, Local History, Reformation History, Catholic Reform, and 17 moreCalvinism, Seventeenth Century, Early Modern Europe, Religious Conversion, Early Modern France, French Wars of Religion, Ancien Regime France, Early Modern Catholicism, Religious Toleration, French Protestantism, Louis XIV, Histoire de l'Église, Catholic Church History, Counter-Reformation, Aquitaine, Louis XIII, and French Huguenots
The first close study of religious coexistence and practical toleration in the early modern era, across most of the 17th century.
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French History, Early Modern History, Local History, Reformation History, Catholic Reform, and 17 moreCalvinism, Seventeenth Century, Early Modern Europe, Religious Conversion, Early Modern France, French Wars of Religion, Ancien Regime France, Early Modern Catholicism, Religious Toleration, French Protestantism, Louis XIV, Histoire de l'Église, Catholic Church History, Counter-Reformation, Aquitaine, Louis XIII, and French Huguenots
The first close study of religious coexistence and practical toleration in the early modern era, across most of the 17th century.
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French History, Early Modern History, Local History, Reformation History, Catholic Reform, and 17 moreCalvinism, Seventeenth Century, Early Modern Europe, Religious Conversion, Early Modern France, French Wars of Religion, Ancien Regime France, Early Modern Catholicism, Languedoc, French Protestantism, Louis XIV, Histoire de l'Église, Catholic Church History, Counter-Reformation, Aquitaine, Louis XIII, and French Huguenots
This book examines the surprisingly prominent place of Italian military aristocrats in European conflicts in the aftermath of the Wars of Italy, over the breadth of Europe. After the Thirty Years' War, however, their numbers and their... more
This book examines the surprisingly prominent place of Italian military aristocrats in European conflicts in the aftermath of the Wars of Italy, over the breadth of Europe. After the Thirty Years' War, however, their numbers and their influence shrank considerably (with the exception of Piedmont-Savoy), demilitarizing this social group and by extension the political elites of Italy. Winner of the Marraro Prize awarded by the Society for Italian Historical Studies.
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Military History, Historical Geography, Early Modern History, Italian (European History), Italian Studies, and 20 moreRenaissance Studies, War Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Early Modern Europe, 17th-Century Studies, History of Florence, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern France, War and violence, 17th century Europe, Holy Roman Empire, Early modern Spain, Thirty Years' War, Spanish Monarchy, Ducato di Milano, The Gonzaga of Mantua, History of Savoy's Duchy, Early Modern Armies, and Early Modern Military History
Italian aristocrats were surprisingly numerous in the armies of Catholic powers throughout the sixteenth and a good part of the seventeenth century, in numbers not hitherto suspected. The book charts their activity in the framework of the... more
Italian aristocrats were surprisingly numerous in the armies of Catholic powers throughout the sixteenth and a good part of the seventeenth century, in numbers not hitherto suspected. The book charts their activity in the framework of the numerous wars from the Atlantic to the Middle East, in Flanders, Germany, Hungary, Italy and the Mediterranean. The precipitous decline in their numbers after about 1640 and their near-disappearance by the end of the 18th century constitutes one of the principal traits of Italian political life in modern times.
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Military History, Ancien Regime France, War of the Spanish Succession, Modena, The Kingdom of Naples, and 6 moreBourbon Spain, Habsburg Monarchy in the 18th century, Storia moderna, 1st & 2nd Wars of the Austrian Succession, Storia istituzionale del granducato di Toscana nel XVIII sec., and The Farnese of Parma and Piacenza
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This study analyzes the cultural world of social elites in the small cities and towns of southwestern France over the broad seventeenth century. More concretely it examines in details the contours of daily life, social action, religious... more
This study analyzes the cultural world of social elites in the small cities and towns of southwestern France over the broad seventeenth century. More concretely it examines in details the contours of daily life, social action, religious belief and behavior among both Catholics and Protestants, the educational background of men and women, and the weight of tradition. All these were undermined by momentous shifts in the urban world-view at the extreme end of the century.
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Premiere partie de la these publiee en 1989, L'Univers des Gens de Bien: Culture et comportements des elites urbaines en Agenais-Condomois au XVIIe siecle, Presses de l'Universite de Bordeaux, Talence 1989.
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Historical Anthropology, Early Modern History, Urban History, Early Modern Europe, History of Elites, and 12 moreHistory of the Family, Early Modern economic and social history, Early Modern France, HISTORY OF CRIME AND LAW, Ancien Regime France, Religious History, Early Modern Catholicism, Histoire moderne, Counter-Reformation, 17th Century History, Huguenots, and Aquitaine
L'Univers des Gens de Bien: Culture et comportements des elites urbaines en Agenais-Condomois au XVIIe siecle, (Talence, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 1989) ch. 4 et 5.
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L'Univers des Gens de Bien: Culture et comportements des elites urbaines en Agenais-Condomois au XVIIe siecle (Talence, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 1989) Chapitres 6 et 7.
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L'Univers des Gens de Bien: Culture et comportements des elites urbaines en Agenais-Condomois au XVIIe siecle, (Talence, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 1989), ch. 8, 9, 10.
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Historical Anthropology, Early Modern History, Early Modern Europe, History of Elites, Early Modern economic and social history, and 8 moreEarly Modern France, French Wars of Religion, Witchcraft (Anthropology Of Religion), Early Modern Catholicism, Early Modern European Witchcraft, Popular religion, Counter-Reformation, and Huguenots
L'Univers des Gens de Bien: Culture et comportements des elites urbaines en Agenais-Condomois au XVIIe siecle (Talence, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 1989), ch. 11 et 12.
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Historical Anthropology, Early Modern History, History of Education, History of Science, Early Modern Europe, and 7 moreEarly Modern France, Witchcraft (Anthropology Of Religion), Religious History, Early Modern Catholicism, Early Modern European Witchcraft, Histoire moderne, and Counter-Reformation
L'Univers des Gens de Bien: Culture et comportements des elites urbaines en Agenais-Condomois au XVIIe siecle (Talence, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 1989).
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Early Modern History, History of Religion, History of Science, Early Modern Europe, History of Reading and Writing, and 6 moreEarly Modern economic and social history, Early Modern France, Early Modern Catholicism, Histoire moderne, History of Medicine in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, and Counter-Reformation
Historians have assumed that early modern Europeans did not practice neo-naticide similar to the great Asian civilizations, but sex-ratio studies are only now entering the demographic literature. This article passes in review both... more
Historians have assumed that early modern Europeans did not practice neo-naticide similar to the great Asian civilizations, but sex-ratio studies are only now entering the demographic literature. This article passes in review both published and unpublished research on sex ratios at baptism in Italy, France, England and colonial Acadia, together with juvenile sex ratios drawn from censuses in Germany, France and Italy. Both endemic and conjunctural imbalances appear everywhere, but they could target females or males depending upon the context. It is still considered newsworthy that in much of the world, parents select the sex of their children before bringing a pregnancy to term. In China, the sex ratio at birth is currently 116 males for every female, while in India, the rate is 111, significantly above the well-established biological norm of 105. 1 This sex preference creates well-publicized difficulties for young men seeking brides (The Economist, April 18 2015). Why kill females preferentially? The literature often lays the blame on misogynistic ideologies, suggesting that it would be sufficient to combat them with propaganda in order to eradicate the practice. There are several better reasons: first of all, in agricultural economies requiring strenuous ploughing with large animals and equally strenuous field and forest work far from home, males were better value. In patrilocal societies where husbands, or their families, received a sizeable dowry for the bride (which served as a security cushion for her and her children in the event of the premature death of either spouse), parents were unequal to the task of providing those for several daughters. Finally, if the aim is to keep the future population stable in order not to overstretch resources, then killing future child-bearers is simply more efficient than killing males and females indiscriminately. Today unwanted pregnancies are usually terminated by abortion, but in the past, the safer solution was to kill the newborn or expose it to the elements. Infanticide, like abortion, may be human universals, that is, part of the behavioural repertoire of every known society, although its frequency would vary according to local environmental conditions. 2 Humans are not alone in this behaviour: mothers in many species of mammals will sometimes cull their offspring at birth. In Darwinian language, infanticide, or abortion that has replaced it, are adaptive mechanisms involving some kind of rational decision-making on the part of the parent, which is usually the mother. 3 In most societies, newborns are not considered full-f ledged persons when leaving the womb. Rather, some sort of ceremony confers a name and social identity on them, sometimes providing an additional set of symbolic kin. Returning to the great Asian civilizations where sex-selective behaviour persists, parents enact strategies to better themselves and assess the likelihood of survival and future of the newborn infant. In traditional China and Japan, neonatal infanticide was a kind of post-natal abortion that allowed parents to choose the number, the spacing and the sex of their offspring, while coping better with short-term difficulties like famine. 4 In his compelling recent study on northeastern Japan, Fabian Drixler suggests that one-third of live births ended with infanticide during the 18th century, despite government disapproval of the practice. 5 Historians sometimes
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Evolutionary Psychology, Historical Anthropology, Historical Demography, Women's History, Early Modern History, and 14 moreFamily studies, Renaissance Studies, Urban History, Rural History, Gender and Sexuality, Seventeenth Century, Anthropology of Children and Childhood, Early Modern Europe, History of Childhood, History of the Family, Social History, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern France, and Infanticide
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A repertoire of 1,700 letters dispatched from the desk of bishop Claude Joly, (sent at the rate of several every day) enables the historian to follow the manner in which this forceful prelate imposed his views on his underlings. It... more
A repertoire of 1,700 letters dispatched from the desk of bishop Claude Joly, (sent at the rate of several every day) enables the historian to follow the manner in which this forceful prelate imposed his views on his underlings. It underscores how little place the repression of Huguenots held in the late 1660s, relative to the need to allocate capable priests in rural parishes, and to enhance the discipline of the Catholic Church.
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This paper surveys the use social and anthropological historians made of French and Italian criminal justice records in order to analyze those societies in the 16th and 17th centuries, from 'mentalités' to micro-history. Far from being... more
This paper surveys the use social and anthropological historians made of French and Italian criminal justice records in order to analyze those societies in the 16th and 17th centuries, from 'mentalités' to micro-history. Far from being 'Others', subjects in that time and place reveal how much the human behavioural repertoire has in common.
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The article passes in review social science writing on war as a human universal, and the constants we find in the behaviour of its participants. It calls for patient data collection of first-hand accounts of combat that will enable future... more
The article passes in review social science writing on war as a human universal, and the constants we find in the behaviour of its participants. It calls for patient data collection of first-hand accounts of combat that will enable future historians to rejuvenate the field.
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Darwinian approaches to human behavior are inherently historical; recounting the origin and development of Homo sapiens and the increasing complexity of human societies over many millennia is second nature to evolutionary psychologists... more
Darwinian approaches to human behavior are inherently historical; recounting the origin and development of Homo sapiens and the increasing complexity of human societies over many millennia is second nature to evolutionary psychologists and behavioral ecologists. Admitting the existence of biologically based human universals entails some considerable adjustment for historians, who are forced to retool by learning more about various social and biological sciences. Most historians have specialized interests by region, period, and topic; it is rare enough for practitioners to study the same problem across longer periods or in a different locale.
This contribution will try to speak to both communities of scholars, on the off chance that practicing historians will wish to rethink their problems afresh from the perspective of human nature. Historians often assume that all of our practices are subject to constant change, where we can apply a date to observable shifts in behavior. Human nature posits that some things change slowly or not at all, and this helps explain the uncanny similarity of the situations and motivations one finds across time and space. This section will pass in review some of the main acquisitions of a half-century of evolutionary inquiry for the benefit of historians, without pretending that scholars follow identical approaches or reach the same conclusions. I have no need here to take sides in the debates between evolutionary psychologists, human behavioral ecologists, or ethologists, or to choose between individual or group selection. Evolutionary thinking can inform a vast array of historical problems; indeed, it embraces every facet of human activity, but in this brief contribution, I will discuss only four areas at more length: reproduction, interpersonal conflict and violence, war, and aesthetics.
This contribution will try to speak to both communities of scholars, on the off chance that practicing historians will wish to rethink their problems afresh from the perspective of human nature. Historians often assume that all of our practices are subject to constant change, where we can apply a date to observable shifts in behavior. Human nature posits that some things change slowly or not at all, and this helps explain the uncanny similarity of the situations and motivations one finds across time and space. This section will pass in review some of the main acquisitions of a half-century of evolutionary inquiry for the benefit of historians, without pretending that scholars follow identical approaches or reach the same conclusions. I have no need here to take sides in the debates between evolutionary psychologists, human behavioral ecologists, or ethologists, or to choose between individual or group selection. Evolutionary thinking can inform a vast array of historical problems; indeed, it embraces every facet of human activity, but in this brief contribution, I will discuss only four areas at more length: reproduction, interpersonal conflict and violence, war, and aesthetics.
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History, Military History, Evolutionary Psychology, Anthropology, Human Behavioral Ecology, and 11 moreHistorical Anthropology, Art History, French History, Early Modern History, Early Modern Europe, History of the Family, Social History, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern economic and social history, Human Ethology, and Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Theories of biological, social and cultural evolution, built on models of reciprocal altruism, help explain the principal problems of all the social sciences, and of history in particular. After a brief genealogy of this trend from the... more
Theories of biological, social and cultural evolution, built on models of reciprocal altruism, help explain the principal problems of all the social sciences, and of history in particular. After a brief genealogy of this trend from the 1990s, the article discusses theoretical and empirical work done in three areas of enquiry: Reproduction, Interpersonal Conflict and War, and Aesthetics and Display.
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History, Military History, Cultural History, Evolutionary Psychology, Demography, and 28 moreHistorical Anthropology, Aesthetics, Art History, Historical Sociology, Behavioral Sciences, Social Networks, Historical Demography, Early Modern History, Italian (European History), Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, War Studies, Criminal Justice History, Violence (Anthropology), Early Modern Europe, Italy (Early Modern History), Microhistory, History of the Family, Social History, Behavioural history, Early Modern Italy, HISTORY OF CRIME AND LAW, War and violence, Cooperation, Sarah B. Hrdy, Early Modern Warfare, Thirty Years' War, and Human Ethology
A short preview of the book "Confession and Community in 17th-century France" (1993), this article appeared in the collection entitled "Canada's Huguenot Heritage 1686-1985", ed. Michael Harrison, Huguenot Society of Canada, Toronto, 1987
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French History, Early Modern History, Reformation History, Calvinism, Early Modern Europe, and 11 moreReligious Conversion, Protestantism, History of Sociability, Social History, Religious History, Early Modern Catholicism, Religious Studies, Louis XIV, Counter-Reformation, Huguenots, and Louis XIII
The Thirty Years' War constitutes the major event in Italian history between the Council of Trent and the French Revolution, but it is woefully understudied and the impact of hostilities on the lives and property of contemporaries remains... more
The Thirty Years' War constitutes the major event in Italian history between the Council of Trent and the French Revolution, but it is woefully understudied and the impact of hostilities on the lives and property of contemporaries remains terra incognita. This research examines not only the plundering of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza by Habsburg troops in 1636-1637, but also describes the many ways war imposed financial costs on the population, before, during and long after the fighting. Many of these costs have never been taken into consideration by historians who argue the positive net benefits of war for economic development.
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Military History, Italian (European History), War Studies, Early Modern Europe, 17th-Century Studies, and 8 moreItaly (Early Modern History), Early Modern Italy, Early Modern economic and social history, War and violence, 17th century Europe, Thirty Years' War, Early Modern Military History, and The Farnese of Parma and Piacenza
This chapter constitutes a model of the process of reducing high rates of violence in both city and countryside from the 15th to the late 17th centuries.
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Historical Anthropology, Early Modern History, Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Cooperation (Evolutionary Psychology), and 15 moreViolence (Anthropology), Early Modern Europe, Italian Cultural Studies, 17th-Century Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), Social History, Early Modern Italy, Power and authority in the Early Modern period, HISTORY OF CRIME AND LAW, Early Modern Catholicism, Feudalism and Lordship, Rural Social History, History of Crime and Punishment, Crime and criminal justice history, and 16th and 17th century Mediterranean
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Social Psychology, Human Behavioral Ecology, Historical Anthropology, Early Modern History, Italian (European History), and 28 moreItalian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Peasant Studies, Rural History, Seventeenth Century, Mediterranean Studies, Early Modern Europe, Human Universals, 17th-Century Studies, Neolithic Archaeology, Microhistory, Social History, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, Power and authority in the Early Modern period, Early Modern economic and social history, HISTORY OF CRIME AND LAW, 17th century Europe, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Feudalism and Lordship, Rural Social History, Economic and Social History, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Southern Tuscany, Renaissance Siena, Tuscany XVIIth-XVIIIth Century, History of Siena, and History of Tuscany
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Gender Studies, Human Behavioral Ecology, Renaissance History, Early Modern History, Italian Studies, and 26 moreGender History, Renaissance Studies, Seventeenth Century, Mediterranean Studies, Early Modern Europe, 17th-Century Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), History of Florence, Early Modern Catholic Studies, Early Modern Church History, History of the Family, Social History, History of the Mediterranean, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Women, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern economic and social history, History of Prostitution, Behavioral Ecology, Early Modern Catholicism, Southern Tuscany, Renaissance Italy, Women in the Renaissance, Renaissance Siena, 17th and 18th Century, and Women In Renaissance Italy
The article reviews three books on family life and tensions by Thomas Robisheaux (on Germany), James Farr (France) and Oscar Di Simplicio (Tuscany).
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Historical Anthropology, Early Modern History, Renaissance Studies, Rural History, Criminal Justice History, and 19 moreHistory of Sexuality, Early Modern Europe, Italian Cultural Studies, 17th-Century Studies, History of Sociability, Microhistory, History of the Family, Social History, Early Modern Italy, Power and authority in the Early Modern period, Early Modern economic and social history, Early Modern France, HISTORY OF CRIME AND LAW, Ancien Regime France, Early Modern Catholicism, Early modern Germany, Rural Social History, Early Modern Women´s and Gender History, and History of Crime and Punishment
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History, Military History, Evolutionary Psychology, Historical Anthropology, Behavioral Sciences, and 12 moreEarly Modern History, Renaissance Studies, Criminal Justice History, Violence (Anthropology), Early Modern Europe, Social History, Behavioural history, Early Modern economic and social history, HISTORY OF CRIME AND LAW, Infanticide, Human Ethology, and Steven Pinker
When the Duke of Parma, Odoardo Farnese, summoned his noble subjects to join his army with a view to joining the French alliance against Spain in 1635, he was gratified by a turnout of astonishingly high proportions. Not nearly enough... more
When the Duke of Parma, Odoardo Farnese, summoned his noble subjects to join his
army with a view to joining the French alliance against Spain in 1635, he was gratified by
a turnout of astonishingly high proportions. Not nearly enough of them had personal
experience of modern war, and so the prince appointed military nobles from much of
northern Italy to fill the cadres, alongside the French officers whose contingents on loan
from Louis XIII made up a third of the infantry. Unlike Spanish nobles, Odoardo’s
subjects were even willing to serve in the ranks, while waiting for their advancement.
The two brief campaigns turned out to be a disaster for Odoardo and his subjects. War
quickly receded from Parma’s horizon, but the experience reveals that Italy’s aristocrats
had not yet consigned their weapons to display cases.
army with a view to joining the French alliance against Spain in 1635, he was gratified by
a turnout of astonishingly high proportions. Not nearly enough of them had personal
experience of modern war, and so the prince appointed military nobles from much of
northern Italy to fill the cadres, alongside the French officers whose contingents on loan
from Louis XIII made up a third of the infantry. Unlike Spanish nobles, Odoardo’s
subjects were even willing to serve in the ranks, while waiting for their advancement.
The two brief campaigns turned out to be a disaster for Odoardo and his subjects. War
quickly receded from Parma’s horizon, but the experience reveals that Italy’s aristocrats
had not yet consigned their weapons to display cases.
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Military History, Early Modern History, Italian (European History), Renaissance Studies, War Studies, and 23 moreSeventeenth Century, Habsburg Studies, Early Modern Europe, 17th-Century Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), Nobility, Cultural History of War, Social History, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, Power and authority in the Early Modern period, War and society, War and violence, 17th century Europe, Aristocracy, Thirty Years' War, Cultural history of warrior elites, Italy Early Modern History, History of Military Recruitment, Early-Modern State development, Early Modern Armies, Early Modern Military History, and The Farnese of Parma and Piacenza
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Military History, Historical Demography, Early Modern History, Italian (European History), Renaissance Studies, and 28 moreWar Studies, Seventeenth Century, Habsburg Studies, Early Modern Europe, Italy (Early Modern History), Cultural History of War, Social History, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, Power and authority in the Early Modern period, War and violence, 17th century Europe, War and Society (History), Histoire moderne, Thirty Years War, Thirty Years' War, Militias, Anthropology of War, Italy Early Modern History, Spanish Monarchy, Milan in the Early Modern Era, Storia moderna, Storia Militare, Histoire militaire, Early Modern Armies, Total War in Europe, Early Modern Military History, and The Farnese of Parma and Piacenza
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Historical Geography, Historical Demography, Early Modern History, Italian (European History), Italian Studies, and 23 moreRural History, Mediterranean Studies, Early Modern Europe, 17th-Century Studies, Italy (History), Italy (Early Modern History), History of the Family, Social History, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, Power and authority in the Early Modern period, Early Modern economic and social history, Early Modern Catholicism, Fernand Braudel, Rural Social History, early modern Mediterranean, Tuscany, Little Ice Age, Siena, Florence and their contadi, 16th and 17th century Mediterranean, Tuscany XVIIth-XVIIIth Century, Famine stress in past time, and History of Tuscany
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Military History, Historical Demography, Early Modern History, Italian (European History), Italian Studies, and 36 moreRenaissance Studies, War Studies, Seventeenth Century, Violence (Anthropology), Early Modern Europe, 17th-Century Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), Cultural History of War, Social History, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, Power and authority in the Early Modern period, Early Modern economic and social history, Early Modern France, War and society, War and violence, 17th century Europe, Histoire moderne, Early modern Spain, Rural Social History, Thirty Years War, Thirty Years' War, Militias, Siege Warfare, Anthropology of War, Spanish Monarchy, Storia moderna, Late medieval and early modern military history, French Army, History of Military Recruitment, Storia Militare, Histoire militaire, Early Modern Armies, Famine stress in past time, Parish Registers, and The Farnese of Parma and Piacenza
Research Interests:
Human Behavioral Ecology, Historical Anthropology, Behavioral Sciences, Social Networks, Early Modern History, and 41 moreItalian (European History), Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Criminal Justice History, Violence (Anthropology), Mediterranean Studies, Early Modern Europe, Italian Cultural Studies, Political History, 17th-Century Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), Nobility, Microhistory, Social History, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, Power and authority in the Early Modern period, Early Modern economic and social history, Early Modern France, 16th and 17th c., HISTORY OF CRIME AND LAW, Courts and Elites (History), 17th century Europe, Court history, Social Norms (Psychology), Feudalism and Lordship, Cooperation, Rural Social History, Aristocracy, Human Ethology, Southern Tuscany, Milan in the Early Modern Era, History of the Papal State (early modern age), 16th Century Florence, History of Crime and Criminal Justice, The Gonzaga of Mantua, The Medici family, History of Savoy's Duchy, History of Tuscany, The Farnese of Parma and Piacenza, and Tuscany 17th-18th centuries
This contribution examines the Italian state system over the 'long' eighteenth century, beginning with the long period of stability and gradual administrative reform after 1660, then the quickening of these reforms in the Enlightenment... more
This contribution examines the Italian state system over the 'long' eighteenth century, beginning with the long period of stability and gradual administrative reform after 1660, then the quickening of these reforms in the Enlightenment era after 1750.
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History, Early Modern History, Italian (European History), Eighteenth Century History, State Formation, and 42 moreSeventeenth Century, Habsburg Studies, Early Modern Europe, Italian Cultural Studies, Political History, 17th-Century Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), Nobility, Early Modern Italy, Power and authority in the Early Modern period, 16th and 17th c., Sicily (History), Courts and Elites (History), European Enlightenment, 18th Century, Jansenism, Court history, Feudalism and Lordship, Histoire moderne, Aristocracy, War of the Spanish Succession, Republic of Venice, The Kingdom of Naples, Histoire politique, Spanish Monarchy, Milan in the Early Modern Era, History of Milan, History of the Papal State (early modern age), Storia moderna, The Gonzaga of Mantua, The Medici family, History of Savoy's Duchy, 18th Century European Military History, History of Tuscany, Bourbon Monarchy between Louis XIV and Louis XVI, War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years War, Piedmont History, The Farnese of Parma and Piacenza, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, War of the polish succession, Tuscany 17th-18th centuries, and Histoire de l'Italie
This is a pioneering study of sex-ratios in Europe similar to those undertaken on Asian societies to demonstrate the persistent reality of sex-selective infanticide on a large scale across the Western World until modern times. Subsequent... more
This is a pioneering study of sex-ratios in Europe similar to those undertaken on Asian societies to demonstrate the persistent reality of sex-selective infanticide on a large scale across the Western World until modern times. Subsequent projects have explored single large parishes in Italy, France and colonial Acadia, and the History Compass article provides an overview of some of these.
The project continues at Dalhousie University, with new research undertaken almost every year that provides additional nuance.
The project continues at Dalhousie University, with new research undertaken almost every year that provides additional nuance.
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European History, Historical Demography, Women's History, Early Modern History, Social History, and 11 moreRoutine infanticide Europe, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern economic and social history, Social History of Medicine, History of childbirth and midwifery, Storia economica, Women's Reproductive Health, Demografia Histórica, Storia Sociale, Storia Delle Donne, and Storia D'Italia
The article is a resume of my book "The Twilight of a Military Tradition: Italian aristocrats and European conflicts 1560-1800".
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Military History, Early Modern History, Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, War Studies, and 22 moreMediterranean Studies, Early Modern Europe, 17th-Century Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), Nobility, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, War and society, Early modern Spain, Aristocracy, Thirty Years War, Military Orders, Thirty Years' War, Italian Renaissance, Anthropology of War, History of Venice, Spanish Monarchy, Habsburg Monarchy in the 18th century, Habsburg Monarchy, History of (Early) Modern Nobility, administrative history, Late medieval and early modern military history, 16th and 17th century Mediterranean, and Early Modern Armies
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Military History, Festivals and music, Early Modern History, Italian (European History), Italian Studies, and 20 moreRenaissance Studies, Anthropology of Performance, War Studies, Violence (Anthropology), Italian Cultural Studies, 17th-Century Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), Nobility, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, War and society, Feudalism and Lordship, Thirty Years' War, Anthropology of War, late medieval and early modern history of European nobility and courts, Late medieval and early modern military history, Anthropology of Militarism and War, Early Modern Armies, Early Modern Festivals, and Baroque Civilization
Research Interests:
Military History, Early Modern History, Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, War Studies, and 23 moreMediterranean Studies, Early Modern Europe, 17th-Century Studies, Nobility, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, War and society, War and violence, Early modern Spain, Aristocracy, Thirty Years War, Military Orders, Thirty Years' War, Italian Renaissance, Anthropology of War, History of Venice, Spanish Monarchy, Habsburg Monarchy, History of (Early) Modern Nobility, administrative history, Late medieval and early modern military history, 16th and 17th century Mediterranean, Tuscany XVIIth-XVIIIth Century, Early Modern Armies, and Notarial Sources
Research Interests:
Human Behavioral Ecology, Historical Anthropology, Early Modern History, Criminal Justice History, Violence (Anthropology), and 13 moreEarly Modern Europe, 17th-Century Studies, Behavioural history, Early Modern France, HISTORY OF CRIME AND LAW, Ancien Regime France, Social Norms (Psychology), Rural Social History, Human Ethology, History of Crime and Punishment, Histoire du droit, Anthropology of Violence, and Deep History
Research Interests:
Cultural History, Hagiography, History of Religion, Anthropology of Pilgrimage, Pilgrimage, and 14 moreCult of Saints, Early Modern Europe, 17th-Century Studies, Religious congregations and monastic orders, Early Modern France, Early Modern Catholicism, 17th century France, Mariology, Miracles, Counter-Reformation, Aquitaine, Marian Devotions, Legends of Saints, and Agenais
Research Interests:
Early Modern History, Magic, Early Modern Europe, European Witch Trials, Early Modern France, and 14 moreMagic and the Occult (Anthropology Of Religion), French Wars of Religion, Witchcraft (Anthropology Of Religion), Witchcraft, Religion and Magic, Early Modern Catholicism, Early Modern European Witchcraft, Diabolic Possession, Counter-Reformation, Catholic Liturgy, Huguenots, History of Witchcraft Persecutions, Demonic Possession, Early Modern Catholicim, and Accounts of Demonic Possession
Research Interests:
French History, Early Modern History, Family studies, Reformation Studies, Seventeenth Century, and 9 moreEarly Modern Europe, 17th-Century Studies, History of the Family, Social History, Early Modern economic and social history, Early Modern France, Early Modern Catholicism, 17th century France, and Marriage (History)
Research Interests:
Cultural History, French History, Renaissance History, Early Modern History, Renaissance Studies, and 26 moreRenaissance, Reformation History, Reformation Studies, French Reformation, Tridentine Catholicism, Early Modern Europe, 17th-Century Studies, Early Modern Catholic Studies, Microhistory, Early Modern Church History, Church History, Early Modern Intellectual History, Early Modern France, French Wars of Religion, Ancien Regime France, Religious History, Theory and Practice of Toleration, Tolerance, Early Modern Catholicism, Confessionalization, Religious Toleration, French Protestantism, Catholic Church History, Counter-Reformation, Huguenots, and Guerres de religion
This course introduces students to the neglected Granducal period of Florentine and Tuscan history, from 1530 to 1737. It deals with the political, economic, religious, artistic and cultural realms over two centuries of the early modern... more
This course introduces students to the neglected Granducal period of Florentine and Tuscan history, from 1530 to 1737. It deals with the political, economic, religious, artistic and cultural realms over two centuries of the early modern era. An array of primary sources, drawn mostly from archival research, are introduced week by week alongside a sample of scholarly literature in English published over the last several decades.
Research Interests:
Early Modern History, Italian (European History), Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), and 10 moreEarly Modern Italy, Early Modern economic and social history, Italian Baroque art, Early Modern Catholicism, Tuscany, late medieval and early modern history of European nobility and courts, Renaissance Siena, Renaissance Florence, Baroque Civilization, and Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Most historical work on infanticide in the Western world has been rendered obsolete by advances in sex-ratio studies applied worldwide. By examining census materials and focusing on the relative numbers of boys and girls at the youngest... more
Most historical work on infanticide in the Western world has been rendered obsolete by advances in sex-ratio studies applied worldwide. By examining census materials and focusing on the relative numbers of boys and girls at the youngest ages, historians of Asia and elsewhere conclude that neo-naticide was a fairly routine form of population control. Western research has concentrated instead on single women prosecuted by tribunals, a modest fraction of all prosecuted homicides. If we study sex ratios in the West the same way we study them in Asia, it becomes obvious that neo-natal homicide by married women was anything but rare. However, the phenomenon was never uniform across society nor over time, nor was it ever directed exclusively against girls. If I had graduate students (Honours, MA or PhD) interested in the phenomenon, this would be their basic reading list.
Research Interests:
Gender Studies, Historical Anthropology, Historical Demography, Early Modern History, Early Modern Europe, and 11 moreHuman Universals, History of the Family, Early Modern Britain, Social History, Routine infanticide Europe, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern France, Infanticide, Human Ethology, History of Crime and Punishment, and Population Studies
This reading course (3-4 articles weekly, in English and French) examines display as a distinct behaviour with multiple facets, enacted by everyone in Italy from the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. Its theoretical... more
This reading course (3-4 articles weekly, in English and French) examines display as a distinct behaviour with multiple facets, enacted by everyone in Italy from the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. Its theoretical framework is ethological, before branching out into specific domains, like dress and textile culture, decor, religion, aristocratic consumption, courtly behaviour, and the production and consumption of art and spectacle.
Research Interests:
Cultural History, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Art History, Early Modern History, and 15 morePopular Culture, Renaissance Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Seventeenth Century, Early Modern Europe, Italian Cultural Studies, Anthropology Of Art, 17th-Century Studies, Early Modern Italy, Social and Cultural History, Baroque art and architecture, Italian Baroque art, Early Modern Catholicism, Evolutionary Aesthetics, and Anthropology of Religion
Instructors: Professors Gregory Hanlon and Estelle Joubert. This course offers its students a survey of key aspects of seventeenth and eighteenth-century European history and society along with a first-hand view of some of the most... more
Instructors: Professors Gregory Hanlon and Estelle Joubert. This course offers its students a survey of key aspects of seventeenth and eighteenth-century European history and society along with a first-hand view of some of the most important aspects of Baroque style and material culture. The class introduces students to the socio-political conditions that led to the birth of Baroque civilization before entering into an exploration of the court life of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Europe. It then examines the cultural and artistic forms most characteristic of this period, with particular emphasis on theatre history, music history, and on the role of the " theatrical " and " musical " in the Baroque arts. As the course proceeds, students will have an opportunity to consider the connections between course material and the evidence of Baroque culture to be found in the Castle Theatre's machinery, its stock of original scenery and props, and its collection of historical costumes, as well as to witness an experimental Baroque opera performance. Finally, the course will include visits to Prague and other sites of interest to add to students' understanding of the Baroque and its legacy to subsequent periods.
Research Interests:
History, Cultural History, Early Modern History, Czech History, Italian Studies, and 18 moreCentral European history, Habsburg Studies, Early Modern Europe, 17th-Century Studies, Architecture in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, Italy (History), Baroque Music, Early Modern Italy, Baroque opera, Baroque art and architecture, Italian Baroque art, Early Modern Catholicism, Feudalism and Lordship, Eighteenth-Century Music, Bohemia, Aristocracy, Counter-Reformation, and ópera
This upper-year course uses Ancien Regime France, 1550-1780 as a framework to teach undergraduate students the wide variety of primary sources available to historians, and the methods and pitfalls of using them. It also introduces them to... more
This upper-year course uses Ancien Regime France, 1550-1780 as a framework to teach undergraduate students the wide variety of primary sources available to historians, and the methods and pitfalls of using them. It also introduces them to empirical logic for historians and the common fallacies encountered in the literature. No French required.
Research Interests:
European History, Historical Geography, Historical Anthropology, French History, Historical Demography, and 18 moreEarly Modern History, Material Culture Studies, Criminal Justice History, Early Modern Europe, 17th-Century Studies, History of the Family, Social History, Behavioural history, Power and authority in the Early Modern period, Early Modern economic and social history, Early Modern France, HISTORY OF CRIME AND LAW, Ancien Regime France, Religious History, Early Modern Catholicism, Early Modern European Witchcraft, Rural Social History, and Parish Registers
This course introduces students to a broad range of situations and processes unfolding over the entire space of Italy from the Council of Trent and the end of the Italian Wars to the onset of the great depression of the seventeenth century.
Research Interests:
Historical Geography, Historical Demography, Early Modern History, Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, and 16 moreCriminal Justice History, Italian Cultural Studies, Italy (Early Modern History), Nobility, Spain (Mediterranean Studies), Microhistory, History of the Family, 17th-century Italy, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern Catholicism, Feudalism and Lordship, Rural Social History, Spanish Monarchy, 16th and 17th century Mediterranean, Parish Registers, and Baroque Civilization
Introductory course to the phenomenon of warfare and the populations supporting and enduring it over two centuries. Ranging from Spain to Ottoman Turkey, the course provides a broad chronological framework, into which it inserts the... more
Introductory course to the phenomenon of warfare and the populations supporting and enduring it over two centuries. Ranging from Spain to Ottoman Turkey, the course provides a broad chronological framework, into which it inserts the principal themes. Illustrated lectures are combined with dozens of archival and literary sources, while weekly readings underscore the manner in which research was conducted by the authors.
Research Interests:
Military History, Early Modern History, War Studies, Habsburg Studies, Early Modern Europe, and 20 moreNobility, Early modern Ottoman History, Power and authority in the Early Modern period, Early Modern France, War and society, French Wars of Religion, Ottoman Military History, Spanish empire, Fortifications, War of the Spanish Succession, Louis XIV, Early Modern Warfare, Thirty Years' War, Dutch Revolt, Anthropology of War, early modern Mediterranean, Spanish Monarchy, 16th and 17th century Mediterranean, Early Modern Armies, and Early Modern Military History
This upper-level seminar class alternates studies in the social and behavioural history of early modern Italy, and readings taken from a wide variety of social and behavioural sciences, from psychology to anthropology to human and primate... more
This upper-level seminar class alternates studies in the social and behavioural history of early modern Italy, and readings taken from a wide variety of social and behavioural sciences, from psychology to anthropology to human and primate ethology, in order to give human behaviour its larger context over time and place. Themes range from Governance (both hierarchy and participation) to Sociability, Economic Co-operation, Competition, Deviance, Sexuality, Reproduction, Religion, War and combat to Beauty and Art. The historical and scientific writings are buttressed with archival documents drawn from my research in Tuscany and Emilia.