Penny Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Penny Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Penny |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6453-2933 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 36 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ritual and Neighborly Violence
À la recherche des fantômes
Este artículo examina los ilegalismos en materia de vivienda en el distrito de Amiens, entre 1900 y 1915, utilizando una metodología que combina un análisis cuantitativo de los archivos de procedimientos cautelares del Tribunal Civil con una perspectiva más microhistórica. Se examinan sucesivamente la ocupación sin derecho ni título, los desalojos furtivos y los impagos del alquiler, y se propone una tipología. El artículo sostiene que estas prác…
Epilogue
Through war, coercion and conquest, violence has always been central to the establishment of political and social order. Thus, the relationship between violence and order is interdependent and, yet, we remain squeamish in admitting that fact. Violence is more readily associated with disorder, but that depends on who is wielding it and to what ends. As the editors of this volume assert in their introduction, what constitutes an acceptable use of v…
‘This beautiful appearance … has gradually transformed and become altogether monstrous’
The massacres that took place in several provincial towns during August, September and October 1572 have attracted far less attention than the intense historical scrutiny given to events in Paris. This relative neglect gives the impression that there is nothing more to say about these episodes of violence except as aftershocks of the main event. Focusing on the case of Troyes in Champagne, this article demonstrates that the provincial massacres a…
Arlette Jouanna - en hommage
Arlette Jouanna in 2008 at the award to her of the prix Guizot-Calvados for La Saint-Barthélemy. Les mystères d’un crime d’Etat (reproduced with permission of the president of the Association François Guizot) This volume is dedicated to the memory of Arlette Jouanna (1936–2022), distinguished early modern historian of France and professor emerita at the Université Paul-Valéry (Montpellier III), who sadly passed away in January 2022 at the age of …
Acceptable Truths’ During the French Religious Wars
This paper seeks to provide some historical perspective on contemporary preoccupations with competing versions of the truth. Truth has always been contested and subject to scrutiny, particularly during troubled times. It can take many forms – judicial truth, religious truth, personal truth – and is bound up with the context of time and place. This paper sets out the multidisciplinary approaches to truth and examines its role in a specific context…
Violence by Royal Command
The Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre remains the defining event of religious violence in sixteenth-century France. Its causes have preoccupied historians, its consequences far less so. While some contemporary observers called into question the nature of absolute royal authority, others defended its use as long as it was cautious and judicious. In the wake of the massacre, however, the opposite seemed to be true, as a series of measures were taken…
Witchcraft narratives in Germany
Given the widespread belief in witchcraft and the existence of laws against such practices, why did witch-trials fail to gain momentum and escalate into 'witch-crazes' in certain parts of early modern Europe? This book answers this question by examining the rich legal records of the German city of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, a city which experienced a very restrained pattern of witch-trials and just one execution for witchcraft between 1561 and 165…
Les Belles figures et drolleries de la Ligue
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Social Relations, Politics, and Power in Early Modern France
This is a finely crafted and coherent collection, edited by Barbara B. Diefendorf, which explores the considerable influence of the published research as well as the scholarly exchange and collaboration of the French historian Robert Descimon. Little known perhaps to non-francophone early modernists, this volume provides an anglophone overview of Descimon’s methodological approaches and historiographical contribution to the field of early modern …
The Politics of Religion in Early Modern France
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French Historians and Collective Violence
French historians and French history have dominated the study of early modern violence. This essay addresses why this is so and what has characterized French historians' approaches to collective violence in particular, whether in the form of popular revolt, confessional division, or revolutionary violence. It posits that historians are essentially uncomfortable in defending and explaining popular violence in the past, that they ought to address t…
The Field of Cloth of Gold, by Glenn Richardson
The Field of Cloth of Gold or Val Doré, the meeting between kings Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France in June 1520, has long been a source of fascination to dramatists and historians alike. The sheer spectacle and extravagance involved in the event continues to command the attention of our visual age. That two celebrated Renaissance princes in the prime of life came together to joust, feast and exchange gifts and honours, supposedly in …
Peace and Authority during the French Religious Wars c.1560–1600
Through a wide-ranging and close analysis of archival sources, this book re-evaluates both the role of royal authority and of local agency in the French religious wars in the lead up to the Edict of N
Family Business
Governing Passions
Between Crown and Community
The study of individual urban communities has long been in vogue for the early modern period and more recent reassessments of the role of royal authority in 16th-century France have enhanced our understanding of the interplay between local and national politics. Both these trends are happily combined in Hilary Bernstein's study of Poitiers. Such histories are characteristically shaped by the sources that survive and the questions asked of them. P…
Local Politics in the French Wars of Religion. The Towns of Champagne, the Duc de Guise, and the Catholic League, 1560-95
The Languages of Peace During the French Religious Wars
The desirability of peace was a common topos in sixteenth-century political rhetoric, and the duty of the king to uphold the peace for the benefit of his subjects was also a long-established tradition. However, the peculiar circumstances of the French religious wars, and the preferred royal policy of pacification, galvanized impassioned debate among both those who supported and those who opposed confessional coexistence. This article looks at the…
Urban conflict and royal authority
This paper explores the relative balance between socio-economic grievance and confessional and political division in urban revolts during the period of the French religious wars. More particularly, it focuses on two such incidents in the town of Troyes in Champagne in the summer of 1586 and what they can tell us about the influence of popular discontent on municipal politics and town-crown relations, as well as the impact of civil war, subsistenc…
English and French Towns in the Sixteenth Century
Comparative history, to paraphrase Rodney Hilton in the first line of his last book English and French Towns in Feudal Society, ‘is rather a risky venture’.1 Nevertheless, it is a valuable exercise for determining what is peculiar in a particular national context, as long as the historian is aware of the pitfalls of generalization. Hilton in this book set out to compare the relative integration of English and French urban communities into medieva…
Faire l’histoire des villes au temps des guerres de religion en france
Les études urbaines dominent, de manière compréhensible. l’historiographie et la compréhension que nous pouvons avoir des guerres de Religion en France. Dans les travaux qui portent sur ces guerres civiles et, en conséquence, dans les histoires des villes françaises de l’epoque, l’accent a tour à tour porté sur les aspects plus spécifiquement sociaux, puis religieux, et, plus récemment, politiques, Les conflits mais aussi les coexistences confess…
Urban histories of the French wars of religion
Urban studies understandably dominate the historiography and our comprehension of the French Wars of Religion. Social, religious and, more recently, political issues have all been in vogue in studies of the wars and, therefore, in the histories of towns. Confessional conflict and coexistence, relations between royal and municipal authorities, affiliation to Protestantism or the Catholic League, have all exercised urban histories. Key moments duri…
The Church in the Republic
Royal Authority and Justice during the French Religious Wars
Journal Article Royal Authority and Justice during the French Religious Wars Get access Penny Roberts Penny Roberts University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 184, Issue 1, August 2004, Pages 3–32, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/184.1.3 Published: 01 August 2004
Royal Authority and Justice during the French Religious Wars
Journal Article Royal Authority and Justice during the French Religious Wars Get access Penny Roberts Penny Roberts University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 184, Issue 1, August 2004, Pages 3–32, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/184.1.3 Published: 01 August 2004
French Historians and Collective Violence
French historians and French history have dominated the study of early modern violence. This essay addresses why this is so and what has characterized French historians' approaches to collective violence in particular, whether in the form of popular revolt, confessional division, or revolutionary violence. It posits that historians are essentially uncomfortable in defending and explaining popular violence in the past, that they ought to address t…
The Languages of Peace During the French Religious Wars
The desirability of peace was a common topos in sixteenth-century political rhetoric, and the duty of the king to uphold the peace for the benefit of his subjects was also a long-established tradition. However, the peculiar circumstances of the French religious wars, and the preferred royal policy of pacification, galvanized impassioned debate among both those who supported and those who opposed confessional coexistence. This article looks at the…
À la recherche des fantômes
Este artículo examina los ilegalismos en materia de vivienda en el distrito de Amiens, entre 1900 y 1915, utilizando una metodología que combina un análisis cuantitativo de los archivos de procedimientos cautelares del Tribunal Civil con una perspectiva más microhistórica. Se examinan sucesivamente la ocupación sin derecho ni título, los desalojos furtivos y los impagos del alquiler, y se propone una tipología. El artículo sostiene que estas prác…
Urban conflict and royal authority
This paper explores the relative balance between socio-economic grievance and confessional and political division in urban revolts during the period of the French religious wars. More particularly, it focuses on two such incidents in the town of Troyes in Champagne in the summer of 1586 and what they can tell us about the influence of popular discontent on municipal politics and town-crown relations, as well as the impact of civil war, subsistenc…
"New Light on a "Forgotten War
New Light on a “Forgotten War”: The Diplomacy of the Korean Conflict Get access Priscilla Roberts Priscilla Roberts Priscilla Roberts is a lecturer in history and the director of the Centre of American Studies at the University of Hong Kong. She has published extensively on United States diplomatic history and is an associate editor of The Encyclopedia of the Korean War, to be released in June 2000 by ABC-CLIO. Her 1997 article, “The Anglo-Americ…
Arson, conspiracy and rumour in early modern Europe
During the night of 24 May 1524 a fire broke out in the city of Troyes in the French province of Champagne, a fire which was to rage for two days and nights, destroying up to a quarter of the town (including at least 300 houses) and seriously damaging three of the city's churches. A number of fatalities was also reported. In the aftermath of the fire, as an assessment of the damage was made, the city council undertook a review of municipal securi…
Religious Conflict and the Urban Setting
RELIGIOUS CONFLICT AND THE URBAN SETTING: TROYES DURING THE FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION Get access PENNY ROBERTS PENNY ROBERTS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 6, Issue 3, September 1992, Pages 259–278, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/6.3.259 Published: 01 September 1992
Martyrologies and Martyrs in the French Reformation
The chief martyrology of the French Protestants or Huguenots, the Histoire des martyrs , was the work of a Walloon refugee in Geneva, Jean Crespin. The Histoire focuses on the martyrs of the French Reformation, but also describes the ordeals of those in Scodand, England, and Flanders, as well as of medieval precursors of Protestant ideas, such as Hus and Wyclif. Later versions of the text include the martyrs of the Early Church, whose faith the H…
The Postmodern Outlook for Hermeneutics
Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris
Marlowe's the Massacre at Paris
Noblesse Seconde et Pouvoir en Champagne aux XVIe et XVIIe siecles
Arson, conspiracy and rumour in early modern Europe
During the night of 24 May 1524 a fire broke out in the city of Troyes in the French province of Champagne, a fire which was to rage for two days and nights, destroying up to a quarter of the town (including at least 300 houses) and seriously damaging three of the city's churches. A number of fatalities was also reported. In the aftermath of the fire, as an assessment of the damage was made, the city council undertook a review of municipal securi…
Renaissance Warrior and Patron
Fear in Early Modern Society
These essays present an examination of the events and crises which generated fear in early-modern societies. They offer examples of fear, and popular responses to it. From the natural threats of fire, flood and plague to the theoretical traumas of death and the afterlife, this volume covers the panoply of personal and communal tragedies which tormented, tortured and terrified the early-modern world.
"New Light on a "Forgotten War
New Light on a “Forgotten War”: The Diplomacy of the Korean Conflict Get access Priscilla Roberts Priscilla Roberts Priscilla Roberts is a lecturer in history and the director of the Centre of American Studies at the University of Hong Kong. She has published extensively on United States diplomatic history and is an associate editor of The Encyclopedia of the Korean War, to be released in June 2000 by ABC-CLIO. Her 1997 article, “The Anglo-Americ…
Huguenot Heartland
Huguenot Heartland: Montauban and Southern French Calvinism During the Wars of Religion PhilipConner Aldershot St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Ashgate 2002 xiv + 257 £ 47.50 0 7546 0762 3
Royal Authority and Justice during the French Religious Wars
Journal Article Royal Authority and Justice during the French Religious Wars Get access Penny Roberts Penny Roberts University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 184, Issue 1, August 2004, Pages 3–32, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/184.1.3 Published: 01 August 2004
Faire l’histoire des villes au temps des guerres de religion en france
Les études urbaines dominent, de manière compréhensible. l’historiographie et la compréhension que nous pouvons avoir des guerres de Religion en France. Dans les travaux qui portent sur ces guerres civiles et, en conséquence, dans les histoires des villes françaises de l’epoque, l’accent a tour à tour porté sur les aspects plus spécifiquement sociaux, puis religieux, et, plus récemment, politiques, Les conflits mais aussi les coexistences confess…
Urban histories of the French wars of religion
Urban studies understandably dominate the historiography and our comprehension of the French Wars of Religion. Social, religious and, more recently, political issues have all been in vogue in studies of the wars and, therefore, in the histories of towns. Confessional conflict and coexistence, relations between royal and municipal authorities, affiliation to Protestantism or the Catholic League, have all exercised urban histories. Key moments duri…
The Church in the Republic
Between Crown and Community
The study of individual urban communities has long been in vogue for the early modern period and more recent reassessments of the role of royal authority in 16th-century France have enhanced our understanding of the interplay between local and national politics. Both these trends are happily combined in Hilary Bernstein's study of Poitiers. Such histories are characteristically shaped by the sources that survive and the questions asked of them. P…
Local Politics in the French Wars of Religion. The Towns of Champagne, the Duc de Guise, and the Catholic League, 1560-95
The Languages of Peace During the French Religious Wars
The desirability of peace was a common topos in sixteenth-century political rhetoric, and the duty of the king to uphold the peace for the benefit of his subjects was also a long-established tradition. However, the peculiar circumstances of the French religious wars, and the preferred royal policy of pacification, galvanized impassioned debate among both those who supported and those who opposed confessional coexistence. This article looks at the…
Urban conflict and royal authority
This paper explores the relative balance between socio-economic grievance and confessional and political division in urban revolts during the period of the French religious wars. More particularly, it focuses on two such incidents in the town of Troyes in Champagne in the summer of 1586 and what they can tell us about the influence of popular discontent on municipal politics and town-crown relations, as well as the impact of civil war, subsistenc…
English and French Towns in the Sixteenth Century
Comparative history, to paraphrase Rodney Hilton in the first line of his last book English and French Towns in Feudal Society, ‘is rather a risky venture’.1 Nevertheless, it is a valuable exercise for determining what is peculiar in a particular national context, as long as the historian is aware of the pitfalls of generalization. Hilton in this book set out to compare the relative integration of English and French urban communities into medieva…
Governing Passions
Family Business
Peace and Authority during the French Religious Wars c.1560–1600
Through a wide-ranging and close analysis of archival sources, this book re-evaluates both the role of royal authority and of local agency in the French religious wars in the lead up to the Edict of N
The Field of Cloth of Gold, by Glenn Richardson
The Field of Cloth of Gold or Val Doré, the meeting between kings Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France in June 1520, has long been a source of fascination to dramatists and historians alike. The sheer spectacle and extravagance involved in the event continues to command the attention of our visual age. That two celebrated Renaissance princes in the prime of life came together to joust, feast and exchange gifts and honours, supposedly in …
The Politics of Religion in Early Modern France
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