Speaker: Professor Brian Sandberg, Northern Illinois University
Description: Prof. Sandberg’s research focuses on religion, violence, and political culture during the European Wars of Religion. He has authored a monograph entitled, Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) and held fellowships from the Institut d’Etudes Avancées (IMéRA) de l’Université d’Aix-Marseille, the Institut d’Études Avancées de Paris, the Fulbright Scholar Program, the Institute for Research in the Humanities (University of Wisconsin-Madison), the National Endowment for the Humanities (at the Medici Archive Project) and the European University Institute. He recently published an interpretive essay, War and Conflict in the Early Modern World, 1500-1700 (Polity Press, 2016) and a collective volume, The Grand Ducal Medici and their Archive (1537-1743), edited by Alessio Assonitis and Brian Sandberg (Brepols, 2016). His current projects include a monograph on A Virile Courage: Gender and Violence in the French Wars of Religion 1562-1629.
Sponsored by War in Society and Culture Program, Wisconsin Veterans Museum, UW-Madison Department of History