Julian Swann
Julian Swann FRHS is a British historian and academic, a professor of early modern history at Birkbeck, University of London, where he has taught since 1989. Swann specialises in early modern French and European history.
Writing[]
Swann has written several books about the French monarchy and politics, including Politics and the Parlement of Paris, 1754–1774 (Cambridge, 1995), Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy. The Estates General of Burgundy, 1661–1790 (Cambridge, 2003) and The Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy: France From Old Regime to Revolution (Oxford, 2013), co-edited with .[1][2] Politics and the Parlement of Paris, 1754–1774 pays particular attention to the government of Louis XV and how parlement and the monarchy interacted during the .[3]
Memberships[]
Swann is a fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and Historical Association.[1]
Honours[]
Swann is a chevalier (knight) of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Order of Academic Palms), France.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Professor Julian Swann". Birbeck University of London. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
- ^ Andress, David (17 January 2015). The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution. Oxford University Press. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-19-963974-8.
- ^ Swann, Julian (6 April 1995). Politics and the Parlement of Paris Under Louis XV, 1754-1774. Cambridge University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-521-48362-9.
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