Christopher Storrs
Biographic Data
| ID | 5365757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Storrs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Storrs |
| SIGNATURE | STORRS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dundee |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9628-9512 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718-20)
El acuerdo de paz de Utrecht y Rastatt-Baden (1713-14) dejó sin resolver muchas de las cuestiones en juego en la Guerra de Sucesión Española y también creó nuevos problemas. Estos, sobre todo el hecho de que Felipe V y su rival por el trono español, el archiduque Carlos («Carlos III») —desde 1711 emperador Carlos VI del Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico— no hubieran hecho las paces en 1713-14, amenazaban con volver a encender una guerra que podría i…
Dimensiones del conflicto
Towns and cities, great centres of population, were, as much as rural areas, but in their own distinctive ways, potential and actual centres of disorder in the early modern era and thus a challenge to local and central authorities and elites. Spain and the wider Spanish world was by no means exempt, witness the Comuneros revolt of 1520–21 (described with some exaggeration as ‘the first modern revolution’), the Neapolitan revolt of 1647, revolt in…
The First World Empire Portugal, War and Military Revolution, edited by Hélder Carvalhal, André Murteira, and Roger Lee de Jesus
La frontera marítima de la Monarquía
Review of a study of the Spanish navy 1665-1700
La alta nobleza castellana a comienzos del siglo XV
La alta nobleza castellana a comienzos del siglo XV: Consolidación de linajes y casas nobles, by Santiago González Sánchez La alta nobleza castellana a comienzos del siglo XV: Consolidación de linajes y casas nobles, by Santiago González Sánchez (Madrid: Dykinson, 2018; pp. 332. €20). Christopher Storrs Christopher Storrs University of Dundee [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Engl…
La congiura di Macchia
Many accounts of the transition from Habsburg to Bourbon Spain (and of the fate of Spain’s Italian dependencies) mention the abortive Macchia conspiracy of 22–23 September 1701 in Naples which failed to wrest that city—and the kingdom of Naples, the jewel in the crown of Spanish Italy—from Louis XIV’s grandson, Philip of Anjou (Philip V) and secure it for the Austrian Habsburgs. However, few of those accounts give much detail concerning the abort…
Genoese Trade and Migration in the Spanish Atlantic, 1700–1830, by Catia Brilli
It is a commonplace that trade within the transatlantic empire of the Spanish Habsburgs and Bourbons was penetrated by foreigners, making a mockery of the supposed Spanish monopoly. In this monograph, however, Catia Brilli explores a rather unusual aspect of that foreign penetration. Instead of considering the role of the Dutch, English and French, she discusses that of the Genoese. The Genoese republic (in the Middle Ages the doyen of the Italia…
Los caballeros de las Órdenes Militares castellanas
The history of the three Castilian Military Orders—Alcantara, Calatrava, Santiago—which played such an important part in the medieval Reconquista and whose grand masterships were incorporated into the Crown of Castile under Charles V, has attracted less attention than might have been expected, given the importance of the social status they conveyed or confirmed in early modern Spain. At the same time, the century or so embraced by the reigns of t…
Turin and the British in the Age of the Grand Tour
Empires and Bureaucracy in World History
How did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental problems in imperial studies by exploring the power and limits of bureaucracy. The book is pioneering in bringing together historians of antiquity and the Middle Ages with scholars of post-medieval E…
The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context
In 1773, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society of Jesus, a dramatic, puzzling act that had a profound impact. This volume traces the causes of the attack on the Jesuits, the national expulsions that preceded universal suppression, and the consequences of these extraordinary developments. The Suppression occurred at a unique historical juncture, at the high-water mark of the Enlightenment and on the cusp of global imperial crises and the Age of …
Sabaudian Studies
Sabaudian Studies: Political Culture, Dynasty, and Territory (1400–1700). Matthew Vester, ed. Early Modern Studies 12. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2013. ix + 334 pp. $49.95. - Volume 68 Issue 1
Lending to the Borrower from Hell
Review of book about state borrowing and debt in early modern Spain
Cómo terminan las guerras
This article discusses a relatively neglected aspect of the peace negotiations which concluded the War of the Spanish Succession, the mission to Spain in 1712-1713 of Robert Sutton, lord Lexington. Lexington’s primary object was to witness Philip V’s renunciation in the presence of the Cortes of his claim to the French throne (and the registration by the Cortes of the claims to the Spanish succession of Philip’s brothers). This was a remarkable d…
Le Insorgenze controrivoluzionarie nella storiografia italiana
The 1790s were marked, in Italy and many other parts of Europe, by a series of disturbances which were, in one way or another, a response to the French Revolution. The most striking example in Italy was no doubt the Santa Fede movement, led by Cardinal Ruffo, which helped to overthrow the Neapolitan republic in 1799, but this was by no means an isolated occurrence. Contemporary commentators and historians have offered differing explanations of th…
Felipe V
The arrival of the Bourbon dynasty in Spain in 1700, in the person of Louis XIV's grandson, Felipe V (1700-46) has long been seen as a turning point in Spanish history. Felipe V's Italian adventures are also significant in suggesting the extent to which the king's ambitions represented a degree of continuity across the change of dynasty in 1700. That attitudes and practices typical of Habsburg Spain persisted into Bourbon Spain following the acce…
Distant Tyranny
Nicholas Henshall, The Zenith of European Monarchy and its Elites
La Rome des Français au Temps des Lumières
Journal Article La Rome des Français au Temps des Lumières: Capitale de L’Antique et Carrefour de l’Europe, 1769–1791, by Gilles Montègre Roma Britannica: Art Patronage and Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-century Rome, ed. David R. Marshall, Susan Russell, and Karin Wolfe Get access La Rome des Français au Temps des Lumières: Capitale de L’Antique et Carrefour de l’Europe, 1769–1791, by Gilles Montègre (Rome: École Française de Rome, 2011; pp. 62…
The Spanish Risorgimento in the Western Mediterranean and Italy 1707–1748
The reign of Philip V of Spain (1700–46) remains one of the most neglected in the history of that country, and in terms of its significance for the rest of Europe. Philip is widely regarded, on the one hand, as little more than the instrument of his wives – above all, Isabel Farnese – and, on the other hand, as a major innovator in Spain. This article seeks to show that Philip’s revanchist aspirations in Italy – and in Africa – after the losses i…
Representing the King's Splendour
Journal Article Representing the King’s Splendour: Communication and Reception of Symbolic Forms of Power in Viceregal Naples, by Gabriel GuarinoBecoming Neapolitan: Citizen Culture in Baroque Naples, by John A. Marino Get access Representing the King’s Splendour: Communication and Reception of Symbolic Forms of Power in Viceregal Naples, by Guarino Gabriel (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2010; pp. xiv + 217. £60);Becoming Neapolitan: Citizen Cultu…
Atlante culturale del Risorgimento
Journal Article Atlante culturale del Risorgimento: Lessico del linguaggio politico dal Settecento all’Unita, ed. A.M. Banti, A. Chiavistelli, L. Mannori and M. Merriggi Get access Atlante culturale del Risorgimento: Lessico del linguaggio politico dal Settecento all’Unita, ed. A.M. Banti, A. Chiavistelli, L. Mannori and M. Merriggi (Rome: Laterza, 2011; pp. xv + 411. Eur 28). Christopher Storrs Christopher Storrs University of Dundee Search for …
Tra moglie e marito
Journal Article Tra moglie e marito: Matrimoni e separazioni a Livorno nel Settecento by Chiara La Rocca Get access Tra moglie e marito: Matrimoni e separazioni a Livorno nel Settecento, by Chiara La Rocca (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2009; pp. 445. Eur 30). Christopher Storrs Christopher Storrs University of Dundee [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVI…
Discurso militar
According to Eduardo de Mesa Gallego, the military history of early modern—or rather Habsburg—Spain has been transformed in recent years in Spain itself. Various developments have contributed to this achievement, including the existence of benign publishers. The latter include the Spanish Ministry of Defence, which has been publishing modern editions of early modern treatises on armies and war, as well as monographs on related topics. The volume …
Italy's Eighteenth Century
Italy's eighteenth century—the Settecento—was for long squeezed (along with the Seicento) between Renaissance and Risorgimento, although we need to beware of exaggerating the neglect, which the late Franco Venturi's multi-volume Settecento Riformatore (1969 onwards) has anyway done much to rectify. Nevertheless, any new attempt to survey eighteenth-century Italy is to be welcomed. The essays reviewed here were originally given as conference paper…
Distant Tyranny
The Spanish Risorgimento in the Western Mediterranean and Italy 1707–1748
The reign of Philip V of Spain (1700–46) remains one of the most neglected in the history of that country, and in terms of its significance for the rest of Europe. Philip is widely regarded, on the one hand, as little more than the instrument of his wives – above all, Isabel Farnese – and, on the other hand, as a major innovator in Spain. This article seeks to show that Philip’s revanchist aspirations in Italy – and in Africa – after the losses i…
The Military Revolution and the European Nobility, c. 1600-1800
The European elite were in origin the men on horseback, the mounted knights who had dominated the battlefields of the Middle Ages. That special position was undermined by the Military Revolution. The Military Revolution undoubtedly affected the nobility's traditional power and function. A more serious and permanent challenge was in part an indirect consequence of the Military Revolution. The opportunities for members of the nobility to serve in t…
Italy's Eighteenth Century
Italy's eighteenth century—the Settecento—was for long squeezed (along with the Seicento) between Renaissance and Risorgimento, although we need to beware of exaggerating the neglect, which the late Franco Venturi's multi-volume Settecento Riformatore (1969 onwards) has anyway done much to rectify. Nevertheless, any new attempt to survey eighteenth-century Italy is to be welcomed. The essays reviewed here were originally given as conference paper…
The Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614
The Seventeenth Century
Journal Article The Seventeenth Century: Europe, 1598–1715 Get access Christopher Storrs Christopher Storrs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue 474, November 2002, Pages 1346–1347, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/117.474.1346 Published: 01 November 2002
The Army of Lombardy and the Resilience of Spanish Power in Italy in the Reign of Carlos II (1665-1700) (Part II)
The Army of Lombardy and the Resilience of Spanish Power in Italy in the Reign of Carlos II (1665-1700) (Part I)
Machiavelli Dethroned
The Military Revolution and the European Nobility, c. 1600-1800
The European elite were in origin the men on horseback, the mounted knights who had dominated the battlefields of the Middle Ages. That special position was undermined by the Military Revolution. The Military Revolution undoubtedly affected the nobility's traditional power and function. A more serious and permanent challenge was in part an indirect consequence of the Military Revolution. The opportunities for members of the nobility to serve in t…
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access CHRISTOPHER STORRS CHRISTOPHER STORRS University of Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 447, June 1997, Pages 772–774, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.447.772 Published: 01 June 1997
The Army of Lombardy and the Resilience of Spanish Power in Italy in the Reign of Carlos II (1665-1700) (Part I)
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access CHRISTOPHER STORRS CHRISTOPHER STORRS University of Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 451, April 1998, Pages 465-b–466, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.451.465-b Published: 01 April 1998
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access CHRISTOPHER STORRS CHRISTOPHER STORRS University of Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 453, September 1998, Pages 994–995, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.453.994 Published: 01 September 1998
The Army of Lombardy and the Resilience of Spanish Power in Italy in the Reign of Carlos II (1665-1700) (Part II)
Disaster at Darien (1698–1700)? The Persistence of Spanish Imperial Power on the Eve of the Demise of the Spanish Habsburgs
Between November 1698 and April 1700, a serious, but ultimately unsuccessful, attempt was made by the recently (1695) established Company of Scotland for Trading with Africa and the Indies to establish a Scots colony on the isthmus of Darien, in Spanish central America. Not surprisingly, this abortive project, which was typical of the way numerous states, large and small, sought in one way or another in the later seventeenth century to break into…
War, Diplomacy and the Rise of Savoy, 1690–1720
This book deals with the crucial relationship between war and state formation in early modern Europe by considering the role of the Duchy of Savoy and the rise of this hitherto weak state into one of the regular members of the anti-French coalitions of the eighteenth century. Through his participation in the Nine Years War (1688–97) and the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), Victor Amadeus II, duke of Savoy, acquired a reputation for unriva…
War, Diplomacy, and the Rise of Savoy, 1690-1720
The Savoyard army, 1690-1720 2. Savoyard finance, 1690-1720 3. Savoyard diplomacy, 1690-1720 4. Government and politics in the Savoyard state, 1690-1720 5. The Savoyard nobility, 1690-1720 6. Regions and communities in the Savoyard state, 1690-1720 Conclusion Select bibliography Index
The Seventeenth Century
Journal Article The Seventeenth Century: Europe, 1598–1715 Get access Christopher Storrs Christopher Storrs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue 474, November 2002, Pages 1346–1347, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/117.474.1346 Published: 01 November 2002
Genoa and the Sea
Fortress Builder. Bernard de Gomme, Charles II's Military Engineer
The Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614
Spain in Italy. Politics, Society and Religion 1500-1700
Andrés González de Barcia and the Creation of the Colonial Spanish American Library
Provincial Governors and the Absolute State
Most studies of absolutism, particularly in Piedmont (and more broadly the Savoyard state of which it was part) focus on the emergence of intendants as an agent of the centralizing state. However, this completely ignores the role of the provincial governors. This article therefore looks in closer detail than has been done hitherto, at the role, recruitment, remuneration and social background of the provincial governors of Piedmont as an important…
Bárbaros
El Motin de Esquilache, America y Europa
IN March 1766 major rioting occurred in Madrid, with serious political consequences: King Charles III felt sufficiently insecure to flee his capital city. Charles was also obliged to sacrifice the minister he had brought with him to Spain from Naples in 1759, the Sicilian Don Leopoldo de Gregorio, marquis of Squilacci—better known in the hispanised version of his name as Esquilache—whom the king had appointed Secretary for Finance and subsequentl…
Chapter 2 The Union of 1707 and the War of the Spanish Succession
Publishing Women
War, Diplomacy and the Rise of Savoy, 1690-1720
Maria Arcangela Biondini (1641-1712) e il monastero delle Serve di Maria di Arco
In 1689, the 45-year-old abbess Giovanna Antonia Bondini, daughter of a Venetian patrician family, and who had taken the name Maria Arcangela on entering the Servite house at Burano in 1655, abandoned her Venetian convent to found a new one at Arco in Imperial territory, in the diocese of Trent. This, and papal approval of the constitutions of her new foundation ten years later, represented a substantial achievement, in the face of serious opposi…
Discurso militar
According to Eduardo de Mesa Gallego, the military history of early modern—or rather Habsburg—Spain has been transformed in recent years in Spain itself. Various developments have contributed to this achievement, including the existence of benign publishers. The latter include the Spanish Ministry of Defence, which has been publishing modern editions of early modern treatises on armies and war, as well as monographs on related topics. The volume …
Italy's Eighteenth Century
Italy's eighteenth century—the Settecento—was for long squeezed (along with the Seicento) between Renaissance and Risorgimento, although we need to beware of exaggerating the neglect, which the late Franco Venturi's multi-volume Settecento Riformatore (1969 onwards) has anyway done much to rectify. Nevertheless, any new attempt to survey eighteenth-century Italy is to be welcomed. The essays reviewed here were originally given as conference paper…
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