Elected 1999
Professeur au Collège de France
The Republic of Letters in Europe in the 17th century, with especial reference to the history of scholarship
British social and religious history of the C16th and C17th; social practices of elites, especially hospitality and gift-exchange; the political and cultural nature of religious identity in Britain and Ireland
The social & cultural history of sixteenth & seventeenth century Germany; gender history; witchcraft; the German Reformation