David J Sturdy

Biographic Data

ID998257
NAMEDavid J Sturdy
GIVEN NAMESDavid J
FAMILY NAMESturdy
SIGNATURESTURDY D J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Ulster
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS110
WORKS AS AUTHOR15
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
H-INDEX4

  • The Sun King's Garden

    David J SturdyARTICLEFrench History2007

    The experience of reading this book can be likened to inspecting the gardens of Versailles. The gardens are arranged around major and minor axes, from which project smaller pathways, some leading to wooded grottoes or intimate hideaways which seem remote from the main allées. Likewise, Ian Thompson concentrates on certain major themes which are transected by subsidiary subjects and digressions, some of which are only tenuously linked to the centr…

  • Sunspots and the Sun King

    David J SturdyARTICLEFrench History2007

    The author introduces this erudite study through an analogy. Astronomers trained in the Classical tradition took it as axiomatic that the surface of the sun is smooth and in a constant state, but in 1615 Galileo observed ‘spots’ which appeared to traverse the disc of the sun, thereby ‘blemishing’ its perfection and presenting orthodox theory with an anomaly. Post-Galilean astronomers had to decide whether the spots were real or illusory; if they …

  • Crown, Church and Episcopate under Louis XIV

    David J SturdyARTICLEThe English Historical Review2006

    WITH this book, which covers the years 1661 to 1715, Joseph Bergin completes the project which he began with The Making of the French Episcopate, 1589–1661 (1996) (rev. ante, cxiii (1998), 728–9). To the main text he adds two appendices, one of which, as before, is a biographical dictionary of every bishop and archbishop. The historical context surrounding the study contrasts with the earlier period in two essential respects: first, from 1661 the…

  • Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society

    David J SturdyARTICLEThe English Historical Review2006

    Journal Article Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society Get access David J. Sturdy David J. Sturdy University of Ulster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 490, February 2006, Pages 298–299, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cej068 Published: 01 February 2006

  • Labour, Science and Technology in France, 1500-1620, by Henry Heller

    Open AccessDavid J SturdyARTICLEMinerva1998

  • Science and Social Status

    James E Mcclellan Iii, James E Mcclellan et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1997

  • Science and Social Status

    Michael R Lynn, David J SturdyARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1997Cited by: 4

    Part 1 The 1660s in context: the scientific context the political context the context of patronage. Part 2 The foundation of the Academie des Sciences and its first: Colbert and the foundation of the academie in 1666 the founder members of the Academie des Sciences - those with backgrounds in law Roberval and Duclos the majority - academicians in their 40s the Eleves the founder members in retrospect. Part 3 Members of the academie, 1666-1698: th…

  • Impolite Learning

    David J SturdyARTICLEIsis1996

  • Images of France and Germany

    David J SturdyCHAPTERDeutschland und Frankreich in der…1987

  • Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Chomel (1671–1740)

    Open AccessDavid J Sturdy, David SturdyARTICLEThe British Journal for the…1986References: 2

    Consider this statement: the practice of science influences and is influenced by the civilization within which it occurs. Or again: scientists do not pursue their activities in a political or social void; like other people, they aspire to make their way in the world by responding to the values and social mechanisms of their day. Set in such simple terms, each statement probably would receive the assent of most scholars interested in the history o…

  • The formation of a ‘robe’ dynasty

    David J SturdyARTICLEThe English Historical Review1980

    Journal Article The formation of a ‘robe’ dynasty: Etienne d'Aligre II (1560–1635), chancellor of France Get access D. J. STURDY D. J. STURDY The New University of UlsterColeraine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCV, Issue CCCLXXIV, January 1980, Pages 48–73, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCV.CCCLXXIV.48 Published: 01 January 1980

  • Tax Evasion, the Faux Nobles, and State Fiscalism

    David J SturdyARTICLEFrench Historical Studies1976

    The structure of French society in the seventeenth century presents features of enormous complexity in that the dividing lines between one stratum of society and another can be very difficult to identify. The division between nobility and commoners, for example, is rendered hazy by the existence of faux nobles, commoners who by one means or another had usurped noble titles and enjoyed illegally the immunity from taille and other direct taxes that…

  • Das volkerwanderungszeitliche Graberfeld von Kornye

    David J Sturdy, David Sturdy et al.ARTICLEMan1972Cited by: 5

  • The Iron Age in the Upper Thames Basin

    David J Sturdy, David Sturdy et al.ARTICLEMan1972Cited by: 9

  • Prehistoric Economy in the Mount Carmel Area of Palestine

    Open AccessC Vita-Finzi, Claudio Vita‐finzi et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Prehistoric…1970Cited by: 92References: 9

    This study is concerned with the exploitation of resources by human groups in the Carmel area over a period of about 50,000 years. To this end an attempt is made to evaluate the changing economic potential of the ‘catchments’ of individual sites, for this enables us to make a comparative analysis of hunting-gathering and agricultural economies. Although the study of prehistoric sites is now usually complemented by some treatment of their setting,…