Professor Laurence Brockliss FBA

The history of education, science and medicine in Europe 1500-1914; the social history of knowledge creation and diffusion; the history of childhood
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
History

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Early Modern French History, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow, Magdalen College Oxford

Past appointments

University of Oxford CUF Professor in Early Modern French History

2002 - 2017

Magdalen College Oxford Tutor and Fellow in History

1984 - 2017

University of Oxford CUF Lecturer, then Reader in History

1984 - 2002

Publications

From Provincial Savant to Parisian Naturalist: The Recollections of Pierre-Joseph Amoreux

Laurence Brockliss - Published in 2017 by Voltaire Foundation

The University of Oxford: A History

L. W. B. Brockliss - Published in 2016 by Oxford University Press

Calvet’s Web: Enlightenment and Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France

L. W. B. Brockliss - Published in 2002 by Oxford University Press

The Medical World of Early Modern France

Laurence Brockliss and Colin Jones - Published in 1997 by Oxford University Press

French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Cultural History

L. W. B. Brockliss - Published in 1987 by Oxford University Press

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Andrew Wood FBA

The social history of England, c.1500-1800, especially popular politics, rebellion, popular memory, custom, neighbourhood, community, local society, social relations; folklore, landscape and popular culture 1500-1970

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Professor Gerald Toomer FBA

The Republic of Letters in Europe in the 17th century, with especial reference to the history of scholarship

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Professor Dr Thomas Kaufmann FBA

History of Christianity in early modern period; theological and cultural history of the Reformation; history of the relations between Christian denominations, Judaism and Islam; history of church history

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