Faculty Postholders
Professor Laurence Brockliss
M.A., D.Phil.
Professor of Early Modern French History
Email: laurence.brockliss@magd.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Professor Brockliss works on the history of education, science and medicine in early modern France and Britain and has a general interest in the history of European ideas.
Selected Publications:
- French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Cultural History. (Oxford, 1987)
- (ed.) Richelieu and His Age . (Oxford, 1992)
- The Medical World of Early Modern France. (Oxford, 1997) 960pp.
- (ed.) A Union of Multiple Identities: The British Isles, c. 1750-c. 1850 . (Manchester, 1997) 222pp.
- (ed.) The World of the Favourite . (New Haven and London, 1999) 320pp.
- Calvet's Web. Enlightenment and The Republic of Letters in Eighteenth Century France. (Oxford, 2002) 471pp.
- 'Harvey, Torricelli and the institutionalization of new ideas in seventeenth-century France' in Wissenideale und Wissenkulturen in der fruhen Neuzeit. (Berlin, 2002) pp. 115-134
- 'Professioni liberali e professioni techniche' in Revoluzione scientifica. Storia della Scienza, vol. 5. (Rome, 2002) pp. 155-171
- 'Classification des sciences dans le monde universitaire et les facultes de medecine (1540-1640)', Nouvelle Revue du XVIe Siecle. Vol 20 (2002) pp. 31-45
- 'Science, the Universities and Other Public Spaces: Teaching Science in Europe and the Americas' in Cambridge History of Science. 4. Eighteenth-Century Science. (Cambridge, 2003) pp. 44-86
- 'Universities' in Encyclopaedia of the Enlightenment. Vol 4 (New York, 2003) pp. 204-212
- 'The rise and fall of the Huguenot physician in early modern France', Proceedings of the Huguenot Society. Vol xxviii (2003) pp. 36-55
- 'Organization, training and the medical marketplace in the eighteenth century' in The healing arts. Health, disease and society in Europe 1500-1800. (Manchester, 2004) pp. 344-381
- 'Prosopography of Irish clerics in the universities of Paris and Toulouse, 1573-1792', Archivium Hibernicum. Vol lviii (2004) pp. 7-166
- 'La Republique des lettres et les medecins en France a la veille de la Revolution: Le cas d'Esprit Calvet', Gesnerus. Vol 61 (2004) pp. 255-283
- 'The moment of no return. The University of Paris and the death of Aristotelianism', Science and Education. (2004) pp. 1-20
- Nelson's Surgeon. William Beatty, Naval Medicine and the Battle of Trafalgar. (Oxford, 2005) 216pp.
- 'Jean-Francois Seguier et les Britanniques' in Jean-Francois Seguier (1703-84). Un Nimois dans l'Europe des lumieres. (Aix, 2005) pp. 121-132
- 'Nelson's Grand National Obsequies', English Historical Review. Vol CXX1 (2006) pp. 162-182
- Advancing with the Army. Medicine, the Professions and Social Mobility in the British Isles 1790-1850. (Oxford, 2006) 393pp.
- 'The French Republic of Letters and English Culture, 1750-90' in Anglo-French Attitudes. Comparisons and Transfers between English and French intellectuals since the eighteenth century. (Manchester, 2007) pp. 98-121
- 'La vie breve de la physiologie mecaniste dans les facultes de medicine de l'Ancien Regime' in Conceptions de la science: Hier, aujourd'hui, demain: hommage a Marjorie Greene. (Paris, 2007) pp. 195-214
- 'The College de Montaigu in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries', History of universities. Vol 22:2 (2007) pp. 112-35
- 'Enlightenment and Christianity in eighteenth-century France: the Library Evidence' in Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe. (Aldershot, 2007) pp. 101-19
- 'Contenir et prevenir la violence. La discipline scolaire et universitaire sous l'Ancien Regime (XVIIe-XVIIIe siecles)', Histoire de l'Education. Vol 118 (2008) pp. 51-66
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