Robin Briggs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3654223 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Briggs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Briggs |
| SIGNATURE | BRIGGS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Navies, technology, and organisation, 1648–1815
Naval warfare changed out of all recognition from the late sixteenth century onwards through the rapid development of large square-rigged warships carrying heavy broadside gun batteries. A whole series of developments followed, with a long (if far from smooth) evolution in ships, equipment, strategy, and tactics continuing down to the last sailing navies of the early nineteenth century. It was clearly no accident that this naval revolution coinci…
Naturalism and Unbelief in France, 1650–1729, by Alan Charles KorsEpicureans and Atheists in France, 1650–1729, by Alan Charles Kors
Almost thirty years ago, Alan Charles Kors published an exciting and original book entitled Atheism in France, 1650–1729: The Orthodox Sources of Disbelief, which was recently reissued by Princeton University Press. That was announced as Volume One, and the two new publications from Cambridge are effectively the long-awaited sequel. The three books do indeed have a unity, such that the new ones can only be fully appreciated when read in conjuncti…
Jean-Pascal Gay, Jesuit Civil Wars
The Witches of Lorraine
"Based on perhaps the richest surviving archive of witchcraft trials to be found in Europe, The Witches of Lorraine reveals the extraordinary stories held within those documents. They paint a vivid picture of life amongst the ordinary people of a small duchy on the borders of France and the Holy Roman Empire, and allow a very close analysis of the beliefs, social tensions, and behaviour patterns underlying popular attitudes to witchcraft." "Inten…
Male Witches
This chapter discusses cases involving male witches in the duchy of Lorraine. Statistical breakdown shows that approximately 28% of the samples were males, who did not fare any better before the courts than the women did. It is shown that male witches were involved in rather more exceptional cases than the female ones. Nevertheless, many of them came from the same category of the dependent peasantry as the great majority of female witches, while …
Close Readings
This chapter discusses the problems in reading documents of witchcraft trials. It looks at the style and content of depositions, interrogations, and confessions, in order to probe the degree to which they can be regarded as reliable evidence, whether for events or for attitudes and beliefs. It argues that although the trial records provide historians with far the largest body of evidence, they are also full of hazards for the unwary investigator.…
Fantasies of Evil
This chapter focuses on witchcraft beliefs. Topics covered include methods used to identify witches, strange creatures in witchcraft cases, cases of individuals terrified by a strange hostile presence, seductions by the devil and in the sabbat, and dreams and fantasies.
Reputations and Communal Interactions
This chapter discusses the importance of reputations in the construction of the witch, or in the minds of those who appeared as witnesses. Topics covered include times and places for rumour and gossip, families at risk, social memory and testimony, healing witches, and restraints on persecution.
The twenty‐second Katharine Briggs memorial lecture, November 2003
The elite theories of witchcraft in early modern Europe rested on the elaborate imaginary constructs of scholastic theologians, with their implications about a cosmic struggle between good and evil. These were reinforced by a range of popular beliefs and practices, and by the iconography of such artists as Bosch, Grien and Cranach. The imaginary world of witchcraft always tended towards a Manichean dualism that commanded widespread popular suppor…
Finance, Religion, and the French State
L'argent du roi: les finances sous François Ier . By Philippe Hamon. Paris: Comité pour l'histoire économique et financière, Ministère de l'Economie, 1994. Pp. xliii+609. ISBN 2-11-087648-4. 249F. The king's army: warfare, soldiers, and society during the wars of religion in France, 1562–1576 . By James B. Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi+349. ISBN 0-521-55003-3. £45.00. One king, one faith: the parlement of Paris and th…
Early Modern France 1560-1715
This book provides an overall interpretation of a decisive period in French history, from the chaos of the Wars of Religion to the death of Louis XIV. A clear but economical narrative of the major political events is combined with an analysis of the long-term factors which decisively moulded the evolution of both state and society.
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access ROBIN BRIGGS ROBIN BRIGGS All Souls CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 437, July 1995, Pages 736–738, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.437.736 Published: 01 July 1995
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access ROBIN BRIGGS ROBIN BRIGGS All Souls CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIX, Issue 434, November 1994, Pages 1266-b–1268, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIX.434.1266-b Published: 01 November 1994
Communities of Belief
Women as Victims? Witches Judges and the Community
The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Briggs, R. (1991). 'Women as victims? Witches, judges and the community', French History 5(4), 438-450. [The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available at http://fh.oxfordjournals.org/].
The Académie Royale Des Sciences and the Pursuit of Utility
Journal Article THE ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES AND THE PURSUIT OF UTILITY Get access Robin Briggs Robin Briggs All Souls CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 131, Issue 1, May 1991, Pages 38–88, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/131.1.38 Published: 01 May 1991
Grey Eminences
Journal Article Grey Eminences: Psychoanalysing Power in Early Modern Europe Get access ELIZABETH WIRTH MARVICK, Louis XIII: The Making of a King, Yale University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-300-03703-1, £25.75. The Young Richelieu: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Leadership, Chicago University Press, 1983. ROBIN BRIGGS ROBIN BRIGGS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 29, Issue 1, Spring …
Communities of Belief
This book is about attitudes and behaviour in early modern France, dealing particularly with the conflicts related to social and intellectual change, and with the tensions between the elite and the common people. The topics discussed include witchcraft, popular belief and superstition, confession, the family, Church and State, and popular revolt. Combining penetrating analyses of important topics with detailed focus on individual cases, Communiti…
Idées and mentalités ; the case of the catholic reform movement in France
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access ROBIN BRIGGS ROBIN BRIGGS All Souls CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVII, Issue CCCXLIII, April 1972, Pages 422-b–423, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVII.CCCXLIII.422-b Published: 01 April 1972
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access ROBIN BRIGGS ROBIN BRIGGS All Souls CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVII, Issue CCCXLIII, April 1972, Pages 424-a–424, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVII.CCCXLIII.424-a Published: 01 April 1972
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access ROBIN BRIGGS ROBIN BRIGGS All Souls CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVII, Issue CCCXLII, January 1972, Pages 190–191, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVII.CCCXLII.190 Published: 01 January 1972
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access ROBIN BRIGGS ROBIN BRIGGS All Souls CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXIII, Issue CCCXXIX, October 1968, Pages 837-b–838, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXIII.CCCXXIX.837-b Published: 01 October 1968
The Académie Royale Des Sciences and the Pursuit of Utility
Journal Article THE ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES AND THE PURSUIT OF UTILITY Get access Robin Briggs Robin Briggs All Souls CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 131, Issue 1, May 1991, Pages 38–88, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/131.1.38 Published: 01 May 1991
The twenty‐second Katharine Briggs memorial lecture, November 2003
The elite theories of witchcraft in early modern Europe rested on the elaborate imaginary constructs of scholastic theologians, with their implications about a cosmic struggle between good and evil. These were reinforced by a range of popular beliefs and practices, and by the iconography of such artists as Bosch, Grien and Cranach. The imaginary world of witchcraft always tended towards a Manichean dualism that commanded widespread popular suppor…
Finance, Religion, and the French State
L'argent du roi: les finances sous François Ier . By Philippe Hamon. Paris: Comité pour l'histoire économique et financière, Ministère de l'Economie, 1994. Pp. xliii+609. ISBN 2-11-087648-4. 249F. The king's army: warfare, soldiers, and society during the wars of religion in France, 1562–1576 . By James B. Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi+349. ISBN 0-521-55003-3. £45.00. One king, one faith: the parlement of Paris and th…
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access ROBIN BRIGGS ROBIN BRIGGS All Souls CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXIII, Issue CCCXXIX, October 1968, Pages 837-b–838, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXIII.CCCXXIX.837-b Published: 01 October 1968
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access ROBIN BRIGGS ROBIN BRIGGS All Souls CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVII, Issue CCCXLIII, April 1972, Pages 422-b–423, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVII.CCCXLIII.422-b Published: 01 April 1972
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access ROBIN BRIGGS ROBIN BRIGGS All Souls CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVII, Issue CCCXLIII, April 1972, Pages 424-a–424, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVII.CCCXLIII.424-a Published: 01 April 1972
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access ROBIN BRIGGS ROBIN BRIGGS All Souls CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVII, Issue CCCXLII, January 1972, Pages 190–191, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVII.CCCXLII.190 Published: 01 January 1972
Idées and mentalités ; the case of the catholic reform movement in France
Grey Eminences
Journal Article Grey Eminences: Psychoanalysing Power in Early Modern Europe Get access ELIZABETH WIRTH MARVICK, Louis XIII: The Making of a King, Yale University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-300-03703-1, £25.75. The Young Richelieu: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Leadership, Chicago University Press, 1983. ROBIN BRIGGS ROBIN BRIGGS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 29, Issue 1, Spring …
Communities of Belief
This book is about attitudes and behaviour in early modern France, dealing particularly with the conflicts related to social and intellectual change, and with the tensions between the elite and the common people. The topics discussed include witchcraft, popular belief and superstition, confession, the family, Church and State, and popular revolt. Combining penetrating analyses of important topics with detailed focus on individual cases, Communiti…
Communities of Belief
Women as Victims? Witches Judges and the Community
The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Briggs, R. (1991). 'Women as victims? Witches, judges and the community', French History 5(4), 438-450. [The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available at http://fh.oxfordjournals.org/].
The Académie Royale Des Sciences and the Pursuit of Utility
Journal Article THE ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES AND THE PURSUIT OF UTILITY Get access Robin Briggs Robin Briggs All Souls CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 131, Issue 1, May 1991, Pages 38–88, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/131.1.38 Published: 01 May 1991
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access ROBIN BRIGGS ROBIN BRIGGS All Souls CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIX, Issue 434, November 1994, Pages 1266-b–1268, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIX.434.1266-b Published: 01 November 1994
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access ROBIN BRIGGS ROBIN BRIGGS All Souls CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 437, July 1995, Pages 736–738, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.437.736 Published: 01 July 1995
Early Modern France 1560-1715
This book provides an overall interpretation of a decisive period in French history, from the chaos of the Wars of Religion to the death of Louis XIV. A clear but economical narrative of the major political events is combined with an analysis of the long-term factors which decisively moulded the evolution of both state and society.
Finance, Religion, and the French State
L'argent du roi: les finances sous François Ier . By Philippe Hamon. Paris: Comité pour l'histoire économique et financière, Ministère de l'Economie, 1994. Pp. xliii+609. ISBN 2-11-087648-4. 249F. The king's army: warfare, soldiers, and society during the wars of religion in France, 1562–1576 . By James B. Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi+349. ISBN 0-521-55003-3. £45.00. One king, one faith: the parlement of Paris and th…
The twenty‐second Katharine Briggs memorial lecture, November 2003
The elite theories of witchcraft in early modern Europe rested on the elaborate imaginary constructs of scholastic theologians, with their implications about a cosmic struggle between good and evil. These were reinforced by a range of popular beliefs and practices, and by the iconography of such artists as Bosch, Grien and Cranach. The imaginary world of witchcraft always tended towards a Manichean dualism that commanded widespread popular suppor…
The Witches of Lorraine
"Based on perhaps the richest surviving archive of witchcraft trials to be found in Europe, The Witches of Lorraine reveals the extraordinary stories held within those documents. They paint a vivid picture of life amongst the ordinary people of a small duchy on the borders of France and the Holy Roman Empire, and allow a very close analysis of the beliefs, social tensions, and behaviour patterns underlying popular attitudes to witchcraft." "Inten…
Male Witches
This chapter discusses cases involving male witches in the duchy of Lorraine. Statistical breakdown shows that approximately 28% of the samples were males, who did not fare any better before the courts than the women did. It is shown that male witches were involved in rather more exceptional cases than the female ones. Nevertheless, many of them came from the same category of the dependent peasantry as the great majority of female witches, while …
Close Readings
This chapter discusses the problems in reading documents of witchcraft trials. It looks at the style and content of depositions, interrogations, and confessions, in order to probe the degree to which they can be regarded as reliable evidence, whether for events or for attitudes and beliefs. It argues that although the trial records provide historians with far the largest body of evidence, they are also full of hazards for the unwary investigator.…
Fantasies of Evil
This chapter focuses on witchcraft beliefs. Topics covered include methods used to identify witches, strange creatures in witchcraft cases, cases of individuals terrified by a strange hostile presence, seductions by the devil and in the sabbat, and dreams and fantasies.
Reputations and Communal Interactions
This chapter discusses the importance of reputations in the construction of the witch, or in the minds of those who appeared as witnesses. Topics covered include times and places for rumour and gossip, families at risk, social memory and testimony, healing witches, and restraints on persecution.
Jean-Pascal Gay, Jesuit Civil Wars
Naturalism and Unbelief in France, 1650–1729, by Alan Charles KorsEpicureans and Atheists in France, 1650–1729, by Alan Charles Kors
Almost thirty years ago, Alan Charles Kors published an exciting and original book entitled Atheism in France, 1650–1729: The Orthodox Sources of Disbelief, which was recently reissued by Princeton University Press. That was announced as Volume One, and the two new publications from Cambridge are effectively the long-awaited sequel. The three books do indeed have a unity, such that the new ones can only be fully appreciated when read in conjuncti…
Navies, technology, and organisation, 1648–1815
Naval warfare changed out of all recognition from the late sixteenth century onwards through the rapid development of large square-rigged warships carrying heavy broadside gun batteries. A whole series of developments followed, with a long (if far from smooth) evolution in ships, equipment, strategy, and tactics continuing down to the last sailing navies of the early nineteenth century. It was clearly no accident that this naval revolution coinci…
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