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Dr Penny Roberts

Publications on violence

  • I have been asked by the editors to write a chapter on ‘Intercommunal violence in early modern Europe’ for the new Cambridge World History of Violence (2018)
  • I have been asked to write an article for a special issue of History and Theory on ‘Violence in early modern France’ (2017)
  • ‘Riot and religion in sixteenth-century France’, in M.T. Davis (ed.), Disturbing the Peace: Crowd Actions in Britain and France, 1381 to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) [forthcoming]
  • Penny Roberts, ‘Contested Authority: Peace, Violence and Memory during the French Religious Wars’ in R. Pörtner and A. Gestrich (eds), Communities in Conflict: Civil Wars and their Legacies (Brill, Leiden, 2014) [forthcoming]
  • Penny Roberts, ‘Peace, Ritual and Sexual Violence during the Religious Wars’ in Graeme Murdock, Penny Roberts and Andrew Spicer (eds), Ritual and Violence: Natalie Zemon Davis and Early Modern France (Past and Present supplements, 7: Oxford, 2012), 75-99 [as well as co-editorship of this volume]
  • Penny Roberts, ‘Urban Conflict and Royal Authority: Popular Revolts in Sixteenth-Century Troyes’, Urban History, 34 (2007), 189-207
  • Penny Roberts, ‘Contesting sacred space: burial disputes in sixteenth-century France’, in B. Gordon and P. Marshall (eds), The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2000), 131-148
  • Mark Levene and Penny Roberts (eds), The Massacre in History (Berghahn, 1999)

Other violence-related activities

  • I am hoping to organise a workshop in 2015 with Charles Walton comparing the relationship between (and depictions of) religion and violence at the time of the French religious wars of the late sixteenth century with that during the French Revolution.
  • I was asked to comment on the papers given at a one-day conference at Cambridge on ‘Religion and Violence in Early Modern Naples’, Sept. 2013
  • I gave a plenary paper, ‘Conflict and violence in the French urban parish in the age of the Reformation’, at Warwick’s Parishes Network Symposium, May 2012
  • I organised a one-day conference at Warwick on early modern France for the Cultures of War and Conflict Resolution Research Group, April 2009
  • I co-organised a conference in Stratford-upon-Avon on ‘Religion and Violence in early modern France: the work of Natalie Zemon Davis’, June 2008
  • Member of the organisational committee of the interdisciplinary Cultures of War and Conflict Resolution Research Group, 2008-