Faculty Postholders
Mr Robin Briggs
F.R.S.L., F.R.Hist.S., FBA
Senior Research Fellow & Special Lecturer in Modern History
Email: robin.briggs@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Robin Briggs is interested in French history (social, political and economic) 1500-1800, French and British naval history, 1660-1815, and the history of religion, popular belief and witchcraft in Europe, c.1500-1800.
Selected Publications:
- Communities of Belief: Social and Cultural Tensions in Early Modern France. (Oxford, 1989)
- 'The Académie Royale des Sciences and the Pursuit of Utility', Past and Present. Vol 131 (1991) pp. 38-88
- Witches and Neighbours: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft. (London, 1996) 457pp.
- Early Modern France, 1560-1715. (Oxford, 1998)
- 'Embattled Faiths: New Religion and Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century' in Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History. (Oxford, 1999) pp. 171-205
- 'From the German Forests to Civil Society: the Frankish Myth and the Ancient Constitution in France' in Civil Histories. (Oxford, 2000) pp. 231-249
- 'By the Strength of Fancie: Witchcraft and the Early Modern Imagination', Folklore . Vol 115 (2004) pp. 259-272
- 'Lorraine Witchcraft database' in . (2007)
- 'A Moving Target: Jansenists and their Enemies in France' in The Development of Pluralism in Modern Britain and France. (2007) pp. 129-152
Future Publications:
- 'A Moving Target: Jansenists and their enemies in France' in Religious Deviance.
- 'Sorcellerie et chrétienté' in Encyclopédie de la Chrétienté. (Paris)
- (ed.) The Oxford History of France . (Oxford)
- 'Trahison et politique de révolution: les procès de Strafford et Charles Ier' in Les procès politiques en Europe, xve-xviiie siècles. (Rome, 2003)
- 'Dubious Messengers: Bodin's Daemon, the Spirit World and the Sadducees' in Angels in the Early Modern World. (Cambridge, 2006) pp. 168-190
- The Witches of Lorraine. (Oxford, 2007) 450pp.
- 'Lorraine Witchcraft Trials' Abstracts and Citations ' in http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/staff/robinbriggs/. (2007) pp. 13MB
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