Guy Rowlands
Encyclopedia
Guy Rowlands is a British academic
and historian
specialising in the history of France
. In 2002 he was the winner of the Gladstone Book Prize
awarded annually by the Royal Historical Society
. He serves as Secretary for the Society for the Study of French History and is Director of the Centre for French History and Culture at St Andrews University.
His research has mainly concerned seventeenth- and eighteenth- century France, especially France’s mobilisation for war between 1661 and 1783. He is best known for the book The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV. Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661 to 1701 which analysed the growth of the army under Louis XIV and stressed the role of noble families in the organisation of the state.
Academia
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and historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
specialising in the history of France
History of France
The history of France goes back to the arrival of the earliest human being in what is now France. Members of the genus Homo entered the area hundreds of thousands years ago, while the first modern Homo sapiens, the Cro-Magnons, arrived around 40,000 years ago...
. In 2002 he was the winner of the Gladstone Book Prize
Gladstone Prize
The Gladstone Prize is an annual prize awarded by the Royal Historical Society to debut authors for a history book published in Britain on any topic which is not primarily British history. The prize is named in honour of William Ewart Gladstone and was made possible by a grant by the Gladstone...
awarded annually by the Royal Historical Society
Royal Historical Society
The Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868. The premier society in the United Kingdom which promotes and defends the scholarly study of the past, it is based at University College London...
. He serves as Secretary for the Society for the Study of French History and is Director of the Centre for French History and Culture at St Andrews University.
His research has mainly concerned seventeenth- and eighteenth- century France, especially France’s mobilisation for war between 1661 and 1783. He is best known for the book The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV. Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661 to 1701 which analysed the growth of the army under Louis XIV and stressed the role of noble families in the organisation of the state.
Publications
- St Andrews Studies in French History and Culture (2010)
- The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV. Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661 to 1701 (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
- ‘The Ethos of Blood and Changing Values? Robe, épée and the French Armies, 1661 to 1715’ in Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 19 (1997)
- ‘Louis XIV, Aristocratic Power and the Elite Units of the French Army’ in French History, 13 (1999)
- ‘Louis XIV, Vittorio Amedeo II and French Military Failure in Italy, 1689-1696’ in English Historical Review, 115 (2000)
- ‘Louis XIV et la «stratégie de cabinet». Mythe et réalité’ in Revue historique des armées, 222 (2001)
- ‘An Army in Exile: Louis XIV and the Irish Forces of James II in France, 1691-1698’ in Royal Stuart Paper, 60 (2001)
- ‘The Monopolisation of Military Power in France, 1515-1715’ in (eds) Ronald G. Asch, Wulf Eckart Voß and Martin Wrede, Frieden und Krieg in der Frühen Neuzeit (Munich, 2001)
- ‘La guerre et la cour: l’ascension sociale et politique de la famille Le Tellier, 1661-1701’ in A. Tartié et al.,Combattre, Gouverner, Ecrire. Etudes réunies en l'honneur de Jean Chagniot (Paris, 2003)
- ‘The Court and the Political Culture of the French Army under Louis XIV’ in European History 1477-1715. Court, Culture, Power and Diplomacy, 1 (2004)
- ‘The King’s Two Arms: French Amphibious Warfare in the Mediterranean under Louis XIV, 1664 to 1697’ in (eds) M. Fissel and D. Trim, Amphibious Warfare and European Expansion, 1000-1700: War, Commerce and State-Formation (2005)
External links
- http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/reformation/news/A4_news_38.pdf
- http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_military_history/v069/69.1rowlands.html
- http://www.h-france.net/vol5reviews/rowlands.html
- http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/W/wreck_detectives_2003/the_wrecks/hms_hazardous/more.html
- http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521641241
- http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cfhc/staff.shtml
- http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/staff/guyrowlands.html