Publications

Books
Editor and translator (with Natalie Zemon Davis). Natalie Zemon Davis and the Passion of History: Interviews with Denis Crouzet. Truman State University Press: Kirksville, MO, 2009. 

Walled Towns and the Shaping of France.  Palgrave Macmillan: New York, 2009.

Co-Editor (with John Howe), Senses of Place: Inventing Landscapes in Medieval Western Europe. University Press of Florida: Gainesville, FL, 2002.
 
Co-Editor (with Elizabeth Bradford Smith). Technology and Resource Use in Medieval Europe: Cathedrals, Mills, and Mines.  Ashgate: Aldershot, 1997.

Editor. Changing Identities in Early Modern France. Duke University Press: Durham,.NC, 1997.

Co-Editor (with Ivy Corfis). The Medieval City Under Siege. Boydell & Brewer: Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1995. Paperback edition in 1999.

The Conversion of Henri IV: Politics, Power, and Religious Belief in Early Modern France.  Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA, 1993.

Articles and Essays

“Pain and Memory: The War Wounds of Blaise de Monluc.”  Spaces of War: France and the Francophone World, (Minneapolis, Minn., 2008).  Accepted for publication.   

“An Archaeology of Identity: Unearthing Sixteenth-Century Nîmes.”  Proceedings of the George Rudé Conference, 2006. Adelaide, Australia.

“Urban Design Innovations and Traditions in France, 1200-1600,” Histoire et mésure: “Mesure le Ciel et la Terre”, (accepted and to appear in May 2009).

“Biblical Exegesis as Public Performance: Controversialist Debate and Politics at the Conference of Fontainebleau (1600),” in Alison Forrestal and Eric Nelson, eds., After the League: Politics and Religion in Early Bourbon France Palgrave Macmillan: New York, forthcoming.

“Au-delà des limites possibles. Comprenant la défaite impériale au siège de Metz (1552),” in Les monarchies européennes à l’époque moderne, Jean-Pierre Poussou and Roger Baury, eds., (Paris: Presses universitaires de France. 2005), pp. 219-232.

“Writing the City Under Attack During the French Wars of Religions,” in Situazoni d’assedio, Carlo Dottor, ed., (Siena, 2002), pp. 179-183.

“Henri IV and the Press.” in The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book, ed. Paul Nelles, (University of St. Andrew’s Press: St. Andrews, Scotland, 2001), pp. 177-196.

“Walled Towns during the French Wars of Religion.” In City Walls: Form, Function, and Meaning. ed. James D. Tracy, (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge/New York, 2000), pp. 317-348.

“The Culinary Art of Politics in Early Modern Amiens,” In Le second ordre: l’univers nobiliaire, ed. Chantal Grell, Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1999, pp. 134-51.

“Prélude à la paix: le siège d’Amiens et ses conséquences historiques.”  In Autour du traité de Vervins.  Guerre et paix en Europe (fin XVIe siècle-début XVIIe siècle), ed, Jean –François Labourdette, Presses Universitaires de Lille, Lille, 1998, pp. 61-80.

“The Edict of Nantes: French Origins and European Consequences.” In The Edict of Nantes, The National Huguenot Society, 1998, pp. 11-18.

“Building a Bastion in Early Modern Amiens.”  Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, 25(1998):36-48.

“New Perspectives on the History of Medieval Technology.” With Elizabeth Bradford Smith.  In Technology and Resource Use in Medieval Europe: Cathedrals, Mills, and Mines.  Ashgate: Aldershot, 1997, 1-8.

“Amnesty and Oubliance in the French Wars of Religion.” Cahiers d'histoire: La Revue du Département d’Histoire de l’Université de Montréal, 4(16) 1997: 45-68.

“Necessary Conflicts: Becoming French in Early Modern Europe.” In Changing Identities in Early Modern France, pp. 1-21.

“Protestant Reactions to the Conversion of Henri IV.” In Changing Identities in Early Modern France, Pp. 371-392.

“The Strange Afterlife of Henri III: Dynastic Distortions in Early Bourbon France.” Renaissance Studies 10(4):1996. 474-489.
 
“New Perspectives on Medieval Siege Warfare: An Introduction.” In The Medieval City Under Siege. Boydell & Brewer: Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1995. pp. 3-20.

“The Bonnes Villes of France During the Hundred Years War.” In The Medieval City Under Siege. Boydell & Brewer: Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1995. pp. 63-87. 

“The King’s Conscience: Personal Authority and Accountability in Renaissance France.” MAJESTAS Yearbook 1(1993):58-72.

“The Politics of Illusion in Seventeenth-Century France.” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History. 17:1990. 152-157.

“Piety and Political Allegiance: The Duc de Nevers and the Protestant Henri IV.” French History. 2(1):1988. 1-21.

“The Conversion of Henri IV and the Origins of Bourbon Absolutism.” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques. 14(2):1987. 287-309.