Renaud Morieux
Biographic Data
| ID | 259392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renaud Morieux |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renaud |
| FAMILY NAME | Morieux |
| SIGNATURE | MORIEUX R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1759-5747 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Le voyage au long cours des « lost letters » de la Galatée . Entretien avec Renaud Morieux
Moreau de Saint-Méry, juriste martiniquais et colon de Saint-Domingue, rédige à Philadelphie entre 1796 et 1798 une Description topographique et politique de l’île, divisée en deux parties, espagnole et française. Cet ouvrage, autopublié, témoigne d’une double ambition : dresser un état précis de la colonie avant la révolution haïtienne et défendre les intérêts des planteurs face aux bouleversements révolutionnaires et à la cession espagnole. Mor…
Lost Letters: Epistolary Communities, War, and Familial Ties in the Maritime Atlantic World of the Eighteenth Century
This article focuses on an exceptional primary source—nearly eighty letters addressed to the crew of a single French ship captured during the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763) but never read, as their still-sealed envelopes attest. Letters to sailors, which helped maintain relations endangered by distance and uncertainty over whether they would return, offer clues to the resilience of familial bonds in wartime. Rather than interpreting these documents…
The Politics of Colonial Lists: Conspiracies, Deportations, and Knowledge in 1790s Pondicherry
In February 1799, the British East India Company rounded up French civilians in Pondicherry and put them on a ship loaded with prisoners of war. The ship continued its journey to Portsmouth in England, by way of the Cape of Good Hope and St Helena. Handwritten lists were the main tool used to select these deportees. If analyzed superficially, colonial lists can seem to depoliticize the violence of deportation by presenting it as the answer to tec…
Ordering the Oceans, Ordering the World: Law, Violence, and European Empires
Once the primary domain of naval and social historians, the field of maritime and oceanic history has become in the last decade part of larger and ongoing conversations in the historical discipline.1 Rather than simply riding the wave of global and transnational history, maritime and oceanic history has been contributing decisively to the recent inflexions of these fields. It has brought attention to issues of disconnection, power asymmetry, fric…
The Return of the Repressed: Political Deportation in the Indian Ocean during the Age of Revolutions
Between the second half of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Indian Ocean became a theatre of the global war waged by European imperial states. This article compares how three colonial powers, in French, Danish, and British colonial territories, dealt with interconnected political threats, in a region where the limits of imperial sovereignty and jurisdictions were often blurred and frequently renegotiated. Rather tha…
Lettres perdues: Communautés épistolaires, guerres et liens familiaux dans le monde maritime atlantique du xviiie siècle
Cet article porte sur une source exceptionnelle - près de 80 lettres jamais lues, comme en attestent les enveloppes toujours scellées, envoyées à l'équipage d'un seul bateau français capturé pendant la guerre de Sept Ans (1756-1763). Les lettres aux marins, qui aident à entretenir des relations mises en danger par la distance et l'incertitude du retour, offrent des clefs d'analyse pour comprendre la résilience des liens familiaux en temps de guer…
Atlantique, xvi e - xviii e siècle. Les pirates, l’État et la guerre sur mer
Corsaire Marin titulaire d’une « commission en course » attribuée par un souverain pour mener des opérations de guerre sur mer contre les navires des puissances ennemies. Son activité est légale. Pirate Le terme vient du grec piratês , « celui qui attaque ». Individu exerçant des activités de prédation définies comme illégales par les États et le droit international, en temps de guerre ou en temps de paix
Author's Response: Some Thoughts on War Prisons, the Law of Nations, and Historical Comparisons
It is an honour and a pleasure to be able to converse with four such generous and thoughtful readers. I am relieved that Guillaume Calafat agrees with me, rather than with Julien Duvivier, that prisoners of war are, as the saying goes, good to think with! I also appreciate their suggestions for future research avenues, which I think open up a number of exciting possibilities. In order to give those readers who have not read the book a sense of wh…
Générations d'Adam: Théologie Et Race Dans La Pensée Protestante Anglaise
Cet essai examine le fonctionnement de la race dans l'imaginaire généalogique anglais aux xvi e et xvii e siècles. À travers une étude de la pensée réformée sur le péché originel et le salut, il examine le lien entre la théologie protestante et les conceptions du lignage et fait ressortir les ambivalences et les tensions intrinsèques à ce lien entre c. 1560 et 1660. Il explore les traces linguistiques et conceptuelles de la race dans une série de…
The Society of Prisoners: Anglo-French Wars and Incarceration in the Eighteenth Century
War captivity is an ideal observatory to address three interrelated questions. First, I argue that in order to understand what a prisoner of war was in the eighteenth century, from a legal viewpoint, we must forget what we know about this notion, as it has been shaped by twentieth-century international conventions. In the eighteenth century, the distinction between a prisoner of war, a hostage, a criminal and a slave was not always clear-cut, in …
Exile, Imprisonment, or Death: The Politics of Disgrace in Bourbon France, 1610–1789, by Julian Swann
A vast distance separates the French monarchical state between the reigns of Louis XIII and his successors: a world in which the monarch was only one aristocrat among others, disciplining his rivals with an iron hand, gave way to a more ordered universe, one in which the king was obeyed almost blindly. Julian Swann’s book focuses on one of the most efficient tools of power used by French kings before the French Revolution: political disgrace. The…
Oceanic Histories: A Roundtable
Oceanic HistoriesA Roundtable Renaud Morieux, Clare Anderson, Jonathan Lamb, David Armitage, Alison Bashford, and Sujit Sivasundaram Oceanic Histories Edited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford and Sujit Sivasundaram. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Oceanic Histories opens a new series for Cambridge University Press. By bringing world history, maritime history and environmental history into one conversation, it presents the very lates…
Indigenous Comparisons
What are the purposes and uses of comparison for the historian? What is the heuristic value of comparing countries, cultures, and societies in the past? And how and why did historical actors deploy comparison in practice? The chapter focuses on two archetypal contemporary and neighbouring societies, France and Britain in the eighteenth century. Instead of the classic comparisons made by philosophers or travel writers, it is the comparisons formul…
Le dilemme de la sentinelle. Droit de la guerre et droits des prisonniers de guerre en Grande-Bretagne au XVIII e siècle
Quelle est la portée pratique du statut reconnu au prisonnier de guerre en droit international ? Quelles sont les conditions concrètes dans lesquelles les droits des prisonniers sont revendiqués, reconnus ou niés ? En prison, la densité institutionnelle et l'enchevêtrement de formes de contrôles multiples créent des configurations juridiques particulières. En situation de conflit, les différents acteurs peuvent choisir de légitimer leurs actions …
The Channel: England, France and the Construction of a Maritime Border in the Eighteenth Century
Rather than a natural frontier between natural enemies, this book approaches the English Channel as a shared space, which mediated the multiple relations between France and England in the long eighteenth century, in both a metaphorical and a material sense. Instead of arguing that Britain's insularity kept it spatially and intellectually segregated from the Continent, Renaud Morieux focuses on the Channel as a zone of contact. The 'narrow sea' wa…
Channel: England, France and the Construction of a Maritime Border in the Eighteenth Century
French Prisoners of War, Conflicts of Honour, and Social Inversions in England, 1744–1783
During the wars of the eighteenth century, French prisoners on parole in Britain were placed in a paradoxical situation of captives with privileges. Instead of studying these men as if they dwelt in a world apart, this article focuses on captivity zones as a social laboratory, where people of different status would socialize. These spaces accordingly provide a lens through which to glimpse the repercussions of international conflicts at the level…
Diplomacy from Below and Belonging: Fishermen and Cross-Channel Relations in the Eighteenth Century
In 1792 an anonymous Revolutionary administrator described relations between France and England in the following terms: 'Each bidding for domination in their respective worlds, they rivalled one another in trade, talent and genius -everything seemed to conspire to divide these two powers'. 1 Discussion of the two national models appears again and again in travel literature, economic writings and political propaganda in France and England during t…
Un populist turn dans l'historiographie du XVIIIe siècle anglais
et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit
Diplomacy from Below and Belonging: Fishermen and Cross-Channel Relations in the Eighteenth Century
In 1792 an anonymous Revolutionary administrator described relations between France and England in the following terms: 'Each bidding for domination in their respective worlds, they rivalled one another in trade, talent and genius -everything seemed to conspire to divide these two powers'. 1 Discussion of the two national models appears again and again in travel literature, economic writings and political propaganda in France and England during t…
French Prisoners of War, Conflicts of Honour, and Social Inversions in England, 1744–1783
During the wars of the eighteenth century, French prisoners on parole in Britain were placed in a paradoxical situation of captives with privileges. Instead of studying these men as if they dwelt in a world apart, this article focuses on captivity zones as a social laboratory, where people of different status would socialize. These spaces accordingly provide a lens through which to glimpse the repercussions of international conflicts at the level…
Oceanic Histories: A Roundtable
Oceanic HistoriesA Roundtable Renaud Morieux, Clare Anderson, Jonathan Lamb, David Armitage, Alison Bashford, and Sujit Sivasundaram Oceanic Histories Edited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford and Sujit Sivasundaram. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Oceanic Histories opens a new series for Cambridge University Press. By bringing world history, maritime history and environmental history into one conversation, it presents the very lates…
Un populist turn dans l'historiographie du XVIIIe siècle anglais
et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit
Diplomacy from Below and Belonging: Fishermen and Cross-Channel Relations in the Eighteenth Century
In 1792 an anonymous Revolutionary administrator described relations between France and England in the following terms: 'Each bidding for domination in their respective worlds, they rivalled one another in trade, talent and genius -everything seemed to conspire to divide these two powers'. 1 Discussion of the two national models appears again and again in travel literature, economic writings and political propaganda in France and England during t…
French Prisoners of War, Conflicts of Honour, and Social Inversions in England, 1744–1783
During the wars of the eighteenth century, French prisoners on parole in Britain were placed in a paradoxical situation of captives with privileges. Instead of studying these men as if they dwelt in a world apart, this article focuses on captivity zones as a social laboratory, where people of different status would socialize. These spaces accordingly provide a lens through which to glimpse the repercussions of international conflicts at the level…
The Channel: England, France and the Construction of a Maritime Border in the Eighteenth Century
Rather than a natural frontier between natural enemies, this book approaches the English Channel as a shared space, which mediated the multiple relations between France and England in the long eighteenth century, in both a metaphorical and a material sense. Instead of arguing that Britain's insularity kept it spatially and intellectually segregated from the Continent, Renaud Morieux focuses on the Channel as a zone of contact. The 'narrow sea' wa…
Channel: England, France and the Construction of a Maritime Border in the Eighteenth Century
Indigenous Comparisons
What are the purposes and uses of comparison for the historian? What is the heuristic value of comparing countries, cultures, and societies in the past? And how and why did historical actors deploy comparison in practice? The chapter focuses on two archetypal contemporary and neighbouring societies, France and Britain in the eighteenth century. Instead of the classic comparisons made by philosophers or travel writers, it is the comparisons formul…
Le dilemme de la sentinelle. Droit de la guerre et droits des prisonniers de guerre en Grande-Bretagne au XVIII e siècle
Quelle est la portée pratique du statut reconnu au prisonnier de guerre en droit international ? Quelles sont les conditions concrètes dans lesquelles les droits des prisonniers sont revendiqués, reconnus ou niés ? En prison, la densité institutionnelle et l'enchevêtrement de formes de contrôles multiples créent des configurations juridiques particulières. En situation de conflit, les différents acteurs peuvent choisir de légitimer leurs actions …
Oceanic Histories: A Roundtable
Oceanic HistoriesA Roundtable Renaud Morieux, Clare Anderson, Jonathan Lamb, David Armitage, Alison Bashford, and Sujit Sivasundaram Oceanic Histories Edited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford and Sujit Sivasundaram. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Oceanic Histories opens a new series for Cambridge University Press. By bringing world history, maritime history and environmental history into one conversation, it presents the very lates…
The Society of Prisoners: Anglo-French Wars and Incarceration in the Eighteenth Century
War captivity is an ideal observatory to address three interrelated questions. First, I argue that in order to understand what a prisoner of war was in the eighteenth century, from a legal viewpoint, we must forget what we know about this notion, as it has been shaped by twentieth-century international conventions. In the eighteenth century, the distinction between a prisoner of war, a hostage, a criminal and a slave was not always clear-cut, in …
Exile, Imprisonment, or Death: The Politics of Disgrace in Bourbon France, 1610–1789, by Julian Swann
A vast distance separates the French monarchical state between the reigns of Louis XIII and his successors: a world in which the monarch was only one aristocrat among others, disciplining his rivals with an iron hand, gave way to a more ordered universe, one in which the king was obeyed almost blindly. Julian Swann’s book focuses on one of the most efficient tools of power used by French kings before the French Revolution: political disgrace. The…
Author's Response: Some Thoughts on War Prisons, the Law of Nations, and Historical Comparisons
It is an honour and a pleasure to be able to converse with four such generous and thoughtful readers. I am relieved that Guillaume Calafat agrees with me, rather than with Julien Duvivier, that prisoners of war are, as the saying goes, good to think with! I also appreciate their suggestions for future research avenues, which I think open up a number of exciting possibilities. In order to give those readers who have not read the book a sense of wh…
Générations d'Adam: Théologie Et Race Dans La Pensée Protestante Anglaise
Cet essai examine le fonctionnement de la race dans l'imaginaire généalogique anglais aux xvi e et xvii e siècles. À travers une étude de la pensée réformée sur le péché originel et le salut, il examine le lien entre la théologie protestante et les conceptions du lignage et fait ressortir les ambivalences et les tensions intrinsèques à ce lien entre c. 1560 et 1660. Il explore les traces linguistiques et conceptuelles de la race dans une série de…
Atlantique, xvi e - xviii e siècle. Les pirates, l’État et la guerre sur mer
Corsaire Marin titulaire d’une « commission en course » attribuée par un souverain pour mener des opérations de guerre sur mer contre les navires des puissances ennemies. Son activité est légale. Pirate Le terme vient du grec piratês , « celui qui attaque ». Individu exerçant des activités de prédation définies comme illégales par les États et le droit international, en temps de guerre ou en temps de paix
Lettres perdues: Communautés épistolaires, guerres et liens familiaux dans le monde maritime atlantique du xviiie siècle
Cet article porte sur une source exceptionnelle - près de 80 lettres jamais lues, comme en attestent les enveloppes toujours scellées, envoyées à l'équipage d'un seul bateau français capturé pendant la guerre de Sept Ans (1756-1763). Les lettres aux marins, qui aident à entretenir des relations mises en danger par la distance et l'incertitude du retour, offrent des clefs d'analyse pour comprendre la résilience des liens familiaux en temps de guer…
Ordering the Oceans, Ordering the World: Law, Violence, and European Empires
Once the primary domain of naval and social historians, the field of maritime and oceanic history has become in the last decade part of larger and ongoing conversations in the historical discipline.1 Rather than simply riding the wave of global and transnational history, maritime and oceanic history has been contributing decisively to the recent inflexions of these fields. It has brought attention to issues of disconnection, power asymmetry, fric…
The Return of the Repressed: Political Deportation in the Indian Ocean during the Age of Revolutions
Between the second half of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Indian Ocean became a theatre of the global war waged by European imperial states. This article compares how three colonial powers, in French, Danish, and British colonial territories, dealt with interconnected political threats, in a region where the limits of imperial sovereignty and jurisdictions were often blurred and frequently renegotiated. Rather tha…
Lost Letters: Epistolary Communities, War, and Familial Ties in the Maritime Atlantic World of the Eighteenth Century
This article focuses on an exceptional primary source—nearly eighty letters addressed to the crew of a single French ship captured during the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763) but never read, as their still-sealed envelopes attest. Letters to sailors, which helped maintain relations endangered by distance and uncertainty over whether they would return, offer clues to the resilience of familial bonds in wartime. Rather than interpreting these documents…
The Politics of Colonial Lists: Conspiracies, Deportations, and Knowledge in 1790s Pondicherry
In February 1799, the British East India Company rounded up French civilians in Pondicherry and put them on a ship loaded with prisoners of war. The ship continued its journey to Portsmouth in England, by way of the Cape of Good Hope and St Helena. Handwritten lists were the main tool used to select these deportees. If analyzed superficially, colonial lists can seem to depoliticize the violence of deportation by presenting it as the answer to tec…
Le voyage au long cours des « lost letters » de la Galatée . Entretien avec Renaud Morieux
Moreau de Saint-Méry, juriste martiniquais et colon de Saint-Domingue, rédige à Philadelphie entre 1796 et 1798 une Description topographique et politique de l’île, divisée en deux parties, espagnole et française. Cet ouvrage, autopublié, témoigne d’une double ambition : dresser un état précis de la colonie avant la révolution haïtienne et défendre les intérêts des planteurs face aux bouleversements révolutionnaires et à la cession espagnole. Mor…
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