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Papers by Penny Roberts
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2013
Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to crimina... more Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
Crowd Actions in Britain and France from the Middle Ages to the Modern World
He is the co-editor of the New Approaches to European History series published by Cambridge Unive... more He is the co-editor of the New Approaches to European History series published by Cambridge University Press. He is especially interested in aspects of the social and institutional history of sixteenthand seventeenth-centuries France, and one of his recent works is A Social and Cultural History of Early Modern France (2009).
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2020
This paper seeks to provide some historical perspective on contemporary preoccupations with compe... more 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, that of early modern Europe and, in particular, the French religious wars of the sixteenth century. Truth was a subject of intense debate among both Renaissance and Reformation scholars, it was upheld as an absolute by judges, theologians and rulers. Yet, it also needed to be concealed by those who maintained a different truth to that of the authorities. In the case of France, in order to advance their cause, the Huguenots used subterfuge of various kinds, including the illicit carrying of messages. In this instance, truth was dependent on...
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2016
Past & Present, 2007
Comparative history, to paraphrase Rodney Hilton in the first line of his last book English and F... more 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 ...
French History, 2007
This volume brings together five essays written in homage to Professor RJ Knecht on the occasion ... more This volume brings together five essays written in homage to Professor RJ Knecht on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.1 The contributors have all, in their various ways, enjoyed and benefited over many years from Professor Knecht's support, advice, patronage and friendship, as ...
French History
The massacres that took place in several provincial towns during August, September and October 15... more 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 are worthy of re-examination. It reconsiders the context of the killing on the streets and in the prison of the town and, in particular, those who were supposedly responsible for ordering the bloodshed. Although it remains impossible to reconstruct a complete picture, the unusual richness of the surviving local sources allows for a more nuanced analysis than provided hitherto and a better-informed understanding of the events as they unfolded.
Peace and Authority during the French Religious Wars c.1560–1600, 2013
It can often prove instructive to consider diverse historiographical approaches to similar topics... more It can often prove instructive to consider diverse historiographical approaches to similar topics, material, or themes. National historiographies, too, can look somewhat different just by asking new questions or addressing neglected issues. Sometimes this is a matter of subject area; at a conference dedicated to taking a comparative approach to the French Wars of Religion and the Dutch Revolt, for instance, it soon emerged just how differently historians of the French, Dutch and German Reformations might view what, to them, were the most topical themes and apt approaches.[1] Sometimes it is a matter of linguistic or cultural difference, as is the focus in this collection and its counterpart in Histoire, économie, et société, with a consideration of Francophone and Anglophone approaches to research on early modern France. In that earlier volume, Michael Breen provided an insightful historical overview of Franco-American scholarly relations over the course of the twentieth century to ...
La parole publique en ville, 2012
Les rois, leurs ministres et les officiers royaux ont fait plusieurs harangues et discours dans l... more Les rois, leurs ministres et les officiers royaux ont fait plusieurs harangues et discours dans les villes du royaume au temps des troubles au XVIe siècle, dans l’espoir de maintenir la paix. Les mots, les images et les symboles qu’ils ont employés rappellaient une idée commune de l’ordre publique et des obligations du roi, mais aussi celles des sujets et des autorités locales. Pourtant, la réception de leurs paroles, les réponses qu’elles suscitaient, reflétaient parfois d’autres opinions et..
Explorations in Renaissance Culture, 2013
DJeux Franfois et Anglois qui sont d'une mesme religion ont plus d'affection et d'amitie entr'eux... more DJeux Franfois et Anglois qui sont d'une mesme religion ont plus d'affection et d'amitie entr'eux que deux citoyens d'une mesme ville, sujets a un mesme seigneur, qui seroient de diverses religions ... ce qui eslongne Ie sujet de porter obeissance a son roy et qui engendre les rebellions. , I.:Hopital, "Harangue prononcee a I'ouverture de la session des Etats generaux a Orleans Ie 13 decembre 1560," 83-84. 1
Writing 'The Rites of Violence' and Afterward Rites of Repair: Restoring Community in the... more Writing 'The Rites of Violence' and Afterward Rites of Repair: Restoring Community in the French Religious Wars Religious Violence in Sixteenth-Century France: Moving Beyond Pollution and Purification Peace, Ritual, and Sexual Violence during the Religious Wars Massacres during the French Wars of Religion The Rights of Violence Profits in Arms? Ministers in War, Minsters on War: France, 1562-74 Rites of Torture in Reformation Geneva From Christ-like King to Antichristian Tyrant: A First Crisis of the Monarchical Image at the Time of Francis I Painting Power: Antoine Caron's Massacres of the Triumvirate Afterword
The incidence rate in men is about four times more than that in women, and the age range of patie... more The incidence rate in men is about four times more than that in women, and the age range of patients diagnosed is 50-54 years in both males and females, with a sharper increase in males aged 60-64 years. 1 BC is the seventh most frequent cancer type worldwide. Approximately 30% of bladder tumors are anticipated to emerge from occupational exposure to carcinogens, including benzidine and 2-naphthylamine. Cigarette smoke also contains such carcinogens and is a risk factor for BC. Several jobs types, such as rubber workers, motor mechanics, leather (including shoe) workers, machine setters, bus drivers, blacksmiths, hairdressers (due to hair dye exposure), and mechanics are at greater risk of BC. 2-4 The malignancy of BC in most humans appears to be multifactorial in origin and develops in multiple stages. 5,6 The natural environment may consist of review article
Community is built on shared values and common goals, but also in opposition to different underst... more Community is built on shared values and common goals, but also in opposition to different understandings of the same issues and how they might best be addressed. The Protestant Reformation effectively reconfigured the notion of community, establishing new solidarities as well as new boundaries and points of contention. Minority status is crucial; how groups are treated by the authorities and by their neighbors, and how successfully they are integrated within the dominant community, can tell us a great deal about social relations. Barbara Diefendorf’s scholarship has helped enormously to shape our understanding of the relationship between communities and religious identity in early modern France, in Paris in particular. While an apt and worthy tribute to Diefendorf’s influence, this forum engages more with the themes of her work than directly with her scholarship. In their exploration of the impact of confessional conflict in a variety of settings, and using a variety of sources, the...
Copyright © Penny Roberts 1996 Published by Manchester University Press Oxford Road, Manchester M... more Copyright © Penny Roberts 1996 Published by Manchester University Press Oxford Road, Manchester Ml 3 9NR, UK and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, Inc., 17S Fifth Avenue, New York, NY ...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2013
Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to crimina... more Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
Crowd Actions in Britain and France from the Middle Ages to the Modern World
He is the co-editor of the New Approaches to European History series published by Cambridge Unive... more He is the co-editor of the New Approaches to European History series published by Cambridge University Press. He is especially interested in aspects of the social and institutional history of sixteenthand seventeenth-centuries France, and one of his recent works is A Social and Cultural History of Early Modern France (2009).
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2020
This paper seeks to provide some historical perspective on contemporary preoccupations with compe... more 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, that of early modern Europe and, in particular, the French religious wars of the sixteenth century. Truth was a subject of intense debate among both Renaissance and Reformation scholars, it was upheld as an absolute by judges, theologians and rulers. Yet, it also needed to be concealed by those who maintained a different truth to that of the authorities. In the case of France, in order to advance their cause, the Huguenots used subterfuge of various kinds, including the illicit carrying of messages. In this instance, truth was dependent on...
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2016
Past & Present, 2007
Comparative history, to paraphrase Rodney Hilton in the first line of his last book English and F... more 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 ...
French History, 2007
This volume brings together five essays written in homage to Professor RJ Knecht on the occasion ... more This volume brings together five essays written in homage to Professor RJ Knecht on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.1 The contributors have all, in their various ways, enjoyed and benefited over many years from Professor Knecht's support, advice, patronage and friendship, as ...
French History
The massacres that took place in several provincial towns during August, September and October 15... more 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 are worthy of re-examination. It reconsiders the context of the killing on the streets and in the prison of the town and, in particular, those who were supposedly responsible for ordering the bloodshed. Although it remains impossible to reconstruct a complete picture, the unusual richness of the surviving local sources allows for a more nuanced analysis than provided hitherto and a better-informed understanding of the events as they unfolded.
Peace and Authority during the French Religious Wars c.1560–1600, 2013
It can often prove instructive to consider diverse historiographical approaches to similar topics... more It can often prove instructive to consider diverse historiographical approaches to similar topics, material, or themes. National historiographies, too, can look somewhat different just by asking new questions or addressing neglected issues. Sometimes this is a matter of subject area; at a conference dedicated to taking a comparative approach to the French Wars of Religion and the Dutch Revolt, for instance, it soon emerged just how differently historians of the French, Dutch and German Reformations might view what, to them, were the most topical themes and apt approaches.[1] Sometimes it is a matter of linguistic or cultural difference, as is the focus in this collection and its counterpart in Histoire, économie, et société, with a consideration of Francophone and Anglophone approaches to research on early modern France. In that earlier volume, Michael Breen provided an insightful historical overview of Franco-American scholarly relations over the course of the twentieth century to ...
La parole publique en ville, 2012
Les rois, leurs ministres et les officiers royaux ont fait plusieurs harangues et discours dans l... more Les rois, leurs ministres et les officiers royaux ont fait plusieurs harangues et discours dans les villes du royaume au temps des troubles au XVIe siècle, dans l’espoir de maintenir la paix. Les mots, les images et les symboles qu’ils ont employés rappellaient une idée commune de l’ordre publique et des obligations du roi, mais aussi celles des sujets et des autorités locales. Pourtant, la réception de leurs paroles, les réponses qu’elles suscitaient, reflétaient parfois d’autres opinions et..
Explorations in Renaissance Culture, 2013
DJeux Franfois et Anglois qui sont d'une mesme religion ont plus d'affection et d'amitie entr'eux... more DJeux Franfois et Anglois qui sont d'une mesme religion ont plus d'affection et d'amitie entr'eux que deux citoyens d'une mesme ville, sujets a un mesme seigneur, qui seroient de diverses religions ... ce qui eslongne Ie sujet de porter obeissance a son roy et qui engendre les rebellions. , I.:Hopital, "Harangue prononcee a I'ouverture de la session des Etats generaux a Orleans Ie 13 decembre 1560," 83-84. 1
Writing 'The Rites of Violence' and Afterward Rites of Repair: Restoring Community in the... more Writing 'The Rites of Violence' and Afterward Rites of Repair: Restoring Community in the French Religious Wars Religious Violence in Sixteenth-Century France: Moving Beyond Pollution and Purification Peace, Ritual, and Sexual Violence during the Religious Wars Massacres during the French Wars of Religion The Rights of Violence Profits in Arms? Ministers in War, Minsters on War: France, 1562-74 Rites of Torture in Reformation Geneva From Christ-like King to Antichristian Tyrant: A First Crisis of the Monarchical Image at the Time of Francis I Painting Power: Antoine Caron's Massacres of the Triumvirate Afterword
The incidence rate in men is about four times more than that in women, and the age range of patie... more The incidence rate in men is about four times more than that in women, and the age range of patients diagnosed is 50-54 years in both males and females, with a sharper increase in males aged 60-64 years. 1 BC is the seventh most frequent cancer type worldwide. Approximately 30% of bladder tumors are anticipated to emerge from occupational exposure to carcinogens, including benzidine and 2-naphthylamine. Cigarette smoke also contains such carcinogens and is a risk factor for BC. Several jobs types, such as rubber workers, motor mechanics, leather (including shoe) workers, machine setters, bus drivers, blacksmiths, hairdressers (due to hair dye exposure), and mechanics are at greater risk of BC. 2-4 The malignancy of BC in most humans appears to be multifactorial in origin and develops in multiple stages. 5,6 The natural environment may consist of review article
Community is built on shared values and common goals, but also in opposition to different underst... more Community is built on shared values and common goals, but also in opposition to different understandings of the same issues and how they might best be addressed. The Protestant Reformation effectively reconfigured the notion of community, establishing new solidarities as well as new boundaries and points of contention. Minority status is crucial; how groups are treated by the authorities and by their neighbors, and how successfully they are integrated within the dominant community, can tell us a great deal about social relations. Barbara Diefendorf’s scholarship has helped enormously to shape our understanding of the relationship between communities and religious identity in early modern France, in Paris in particular. While an apt and worthy tribute to Diefendorf’s influence, this forum engages more with the themes of her work than directly with her scholarship. In their exploration of the impact of confessional conflict in a variety of settings, and using a variety of sources, the...
Copyright © Penny Roberts 1996 Published by Manchester University Press Oxford Road, Manchester M... more Copyright © Penny Roberts 1996 Published by Manchester University Press Oxford Road, Manchester Ml 3 9NR, UK and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, Inc., 17S Fifth Avenue, New York, NY ...