Dr Sofia Guthrie
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Sofia.C.Guthrie@warwick.ac.uk
About
My work focuses on the intersection between early modern history and literature. A main area of interest is southern French Calvinism, especially the city of Montauban and its Protestant academy. To a large extent, this research relies on Latin source material.
I received my PhD in History from the University of Warwick in 2023. My doctoral thesis, supervised by Penny Roberts and Andrew Laird, consisted of an edition of the Adolphid (Montauban, 1649), a Latin epic poem about the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus and his campaigns in the Thirty Years' War. Its author was Antoine de Garissoles, a Huguenot theologian. My thesis, which I am currently in the process of turning into a book, provided an original translation of the poem and assessed the work's engagement with its wider political, religious and literary contexts. This research sheds light on Huguenot confessional identity, the theme of international Protestantism, as well as the use of epic poetry as a vehicle of ideology and political identity.
Publications
- 'Confessional identities and national allegiances: The siege of Montauban (1621) in three Latin epics', in R. Kuhn and D. Melde (eds.), La guerre et la paix dans la poésie épique en France (1500-1800), Text und Kontext 40 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020), 123-36
- How to mock a dead general: Albrecht von Wallenstein and the battle of Lützen in Antoine Garissoles' Adolphid (1649), Bibliotheca Neo-Latina Upsaliensis 12 (Uppsala: [Peter Sjökvist and Krister Östlund]: 2019)
- 'Goths, Gauls and Franks in Antoine Garissoles' Adolphid (1649): How to rewrite the ancient history of Sweden', in B. Roling, B. Schirg and S. Bauhaus (eds.), Apotheosis of the North: The Swedish Appropriation of Classical Antiquity around the Baltic Sea and Beyond (1650-1800) (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017), 175-86
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The copy of the Adolphid held at the Beinecke Library, Yale University.