Dr David Parrott
M.A., D.Phil., F.R.Hist.S.
Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History
Email: david.parrott@new.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
David Parrott has published on aspects of seventeenth-century French military and administrative history. He is interested in the history of warfare in the early modern period, and especially in the Thirty Years' War. He has published on the Mantuan Succession dispute and the role of north Italian principalities in the European conflict of the 1620s and 1630s. His most recent work has been concerned with military decentralization and entrepreneurship in early modern Europe.
Supervision Interests
David Parrott's supervision interests extend widely over the early modern period, though focusing primarily on French and Italian history. They include all aspects of military history and issues linking war, politics and society. Aspects of political history, especially relations between rulers, nobles, central and provincial power. Early modern court studies and courtly culture. Early modern diplomatic and institutional history.
Selected Publications:
- 'Strategy and Tactics in the Thirty Years' War: the "Military Revolution"', The Military Revolution Debate. Readings on the Military Transformation of Early Modern Europe. (1995)
- 'The Mantuan succession, 1627-1631: A sovereignty dispute in early modern Europe', The English Historical Review. Vol CXII (1997) pp. 20-65
- 'The Role of Fortifications in Early Modern Europe; the Farnese and the Security of the Duchies of Parma and Piacenza' in I Farnese, Corte, Guerra e Nobiltà in Antico Regime. (Rome, 1997) pp. 243-311
- Richelieu's Army. War, Government and Society in France, 1624-1642 . (Cambridge, 2001) 599pp.
- 'Cultures of Combat in the Ancien Regime: Linear Warfare, Nobel Values, and Entrepreneurship', The International History Review. Vol 27(3) (2005) pp. 518-533
- 'France's War against the Habsburgs, 1624-1659: the Politics of Military Failure.' in Guerra y Sociedad en la Monarquia Hispanica: Politica, Estrategia y Cultura en la Europa Moderna (1500-1700) Volumen 1. Vol I (Madrid, 2006) pp. 31-48
Future Publications:
- France and the Thirty Years' War, 1620-1659. (London)
- The "Military Devolution". Armies and Politics in Early Modern Europe..
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