Prof Julian Swann
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Julian Swann is Pro-Vice Master for Research and professor of Early Modern History and has taught at Birkbeck since 1989. He is interested in all aspects of French history, but is currently working on a major biography of Louis XV.
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Early Modern French history
Research overview
My work has been focused upon the political, administrative and social history of the French monarchy in the period from the accession of Louis XIV until the Revolution of 1789.
I have been particularly concerned by the nature of the relationship between French elites and the absolute monarchy, with the aim of understanding how it was possible for a ruling consensus to be established after the Civil Wars of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and what caused that consensus to break down.
I am currently writing a biography of Louis XV.
I am Editor of the European History Quarterly. -
Publications
Publications
Article
- Swann, Julian (2020) 'Roi de guerre ou Roi de paix? Louis XV and the French monarchy, 1740-1748. French History 34 (2), pp. 161-190. ISSN 0269-1191.
- Swann, Julian (2011) A monarch who wants to "rule by law": the Parliament of Paris and the king in the France of Louis XV. Parlement[s]: Revue d’Histoire Politique 15, pp. 48-62. ISSN 1768-6520.
- Swann, Julian (2007) Disgrace without dishonour: the internal exile of French magistrates in the eighteenth century. Past and Present 195 (1), pp. 87-126. ISSN 0031-2746.
- Swann, Julian (2006) Les etats généraux de Bourgogne: un gouvernement provincial au siècle des lumières. Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 53 (2), pp. 35-69. ISSN 0048-8003.
- Swann, Julian (2006) The general states of Bourgogne: a provincial government in the Enlightenment era. Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 53 (2), pp. 35-69. ISSN 0048-8003.
- Swann, Julian (1998) Power and provincial politics in eighteenth-century France: the Varenne affair. French Historical Studies 21 (3), pp. 441-474. ISSN 0016-1071.
- Swann, Julian (1994) Parlements and political crisis in France under Louis XV: The Besancon Affair, 1757-1761. Historical Journal 37 (4), pp. 803-828. ISSN 0018-246X.
- Swann, Julian (1994) Parlements and political crisis in France under Louis XV: the Besançon affair 1757-61. The Historical Journal 37 (4), pp. 803-828. ISSN 0018-246X.
- Swann, Julian (1992) Parlement, politics and the parti janséniste: the Grand Conseil affair, 1755-1756. French History 6 (4), pp. 435-461. ISSN 0269-1191.
Book
- Swann, Julian (2017) Exile, imprisonment, or death: the politics of disgrace in Bourbon France. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198788690.
- Swann, Julian and Felix, J., eds. (2013) The crisis of the absolute monarchy: from the old regime to the French Revolution. Proceedings of the British Academy. (184), Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197265383.
- Swann, Julian and Coward, B., eds. (2004) Conspiracies and conspiracy theory in early modern Europe: from the Waldensians to the French Revolution. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780754635642.
- Swann, Julian (2003) Provincial power and absolute monarchy: the Estates General of Burgundy, 1661–1790. New Studies in European History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 521827671.
- Swann, Julian (1995) Politics and the parlement of Paris under Louis XV, 1754–1774. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511661013.
Book Review
- Swann, Julian (2018) Correspondance du president de Brosses et de l’abbé marquis Niccolini, By John Rogister Mireille Gille.Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2016. xiv + 289 pp..
- Swann, Julian (2018) La guerre de Succession d’Autriche (1741–1748): Louis XV et le déclin de la France . By Fadi El Hage. Paris: Economica. 2017. 239 pp..
Book Section
- Swann, Julian (2012) Les parlementaires, les lettres de cachet et la campagne contre l’arbitraire de la justice au XVIIIe siècl. In: Chaline, O. (ed.) Les Parlements et les Lumières. Boureaux, France: Maison des Sciences de L’Homme d’Aquitaine. pp. 177-194. ISBN 9782858924066.
- Swann, Julian (2012) Parlements and provincial estates. In: Doyle, W. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 93-110. ISBN 9780199291205.
- Swann, Julian (2012) Politics and religion. In: Jones, C. and Carey, J. and Richardson, E. (eds.) The Saint-Aubin "Livre de caricatures": Drawing Satire in Eighteenth-Century Paris. SVEC. Oxford, UK: Voltaire Foundation. pp. 117-150. ISBN 9780729410441.
- Swann, Julian (2011) Malesherbes et la critique parlementaire du despotisme, de la bureaucratie et de la monarchie administrative. In: Charles, L. and Lefebvre, F. and There, C. (eds.) Le cercle de Vincent de Gournay: savoirs économiques et pratiques administratives en France au milieu du XVIIIe siècle. Classiques de l'économie et de la population. Paris, France: Institut National d'etudes Demographiques. pp. 111-129. ISBN 9782733210390.
- Swann, Julian (2010) "Le roi demande, les états consente": Royal Council, provincial estates and Parliament in Eighteenth-century Burgundy. In: Hayton, D.W. and Kelly, J. and Bergin, J. (eds.) The Eighteenth-Century Composite State: Representative Institutions in Ireland and Europe, 1689-1800. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 190-210. ISBN 9780230231597.
- Swann, Julian (2010) Coopération, opposition ou autonomie? le parlement de Dijon, les états de Bourgogne et Louis XIV, 1689-1715. In: Aubert, G. and Chaline, O. (eds.) Les parlements de Louis XIV : opposition, coopération, autonomisation ?. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. pp. 117-132. ISBN 9782753510159.
- Swann, Julian (2010) Repenser les parlements au xviiie siècle : du concept de l’« opposition parlementaire » à celui de « culture juridique des conflits politiques. In: Lemaitre, A.J. (ed.) Le monde parlementaire au XVIIIe siècle: L'invention d'un discours politique. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. pp. 17-38. ISBN 9782753510418.
- Swann, Julian (2009) Power and the provinces: the estates of Burgundy in the reign of Louis XVI - III. In: LeGay, M.-L. and Baury, R. (eds.) The invention of the decentralization Nobility and middle powers in France and Europe XVII e -XIX e century. Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion. pp. 155-173. ISBN 9782757401040.
- Swann, Julian (2007) Silence, respect obedience: political culture in Louis XV's France. In: Scott, Hamish M. and Simms, Brendan (eds.) Cultures of power in Europe during the long eighteenth century. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 225-249. ISBN 9780521842273.
- Swann, Julian (2001) Politics: Louis XV. In: Doyle, William (ed.) Old regime France 1648 -1788. The short Oxford history of France. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 195-222. ISBN 0-19-873129-9.
- Swann, Julian (2001) The state and political culture. In: Doyle, William (ed.) Old regime France 1648 -1788. The short Oxford history of France. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 139-168. ISBN 0-19-873129-9.
- Swann, Julian (1999) War and finance in Burgundy in the reign of Louis XIV, 1661 - 1715. In: Ormrod, W.M. and Bonney, Margaret and Bonney, Richard (eds.) Crises, revolutions and self-sustained growth: essays in European fiscal history, 1130 - 1830. Stamford, Lincs: Shaun Tyas. pp. 294-322. ISBN 1 871615 93 3.
- Swann, Julian (1997) Le Parlement de Paris et la réforme financière au XVIIIe siècle, 1749-1789. In: l'administration des finances sous l'ancien régime. Paris, France: Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière. pp. 325-346. ISBN 9782110889799.