Ronald G. Asch



Professor of Modern History at Freiburg University

Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:
October 2010‒March 2011

Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:
»Sacred Kingship between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment. The French and the English Monarchies in the long 17th Century 1587/89‒1714/15«

Funding of the stay:
Excellence Cluster »The formation of normative orders«

Research partner:
While at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Professor Asch will be working together with Professor Luise Schorn-Schütte (Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence).

Scholarly profile of Ronald G. Asch


Main areas of research:
British history of the 16th and 17th centuries; comparative history of the European nobility and court society and culture in the early modern period; war and confessions in Central Europe in the 17th century

Selected publications:
  1. Die Stuarts (Reihe Beck Wissen), München: Beck 2011 (in print).
  2. Europäischer Adel in der frühen Neuzeit. Eine Einführung (UTB Taschenbuch), Köln: Böhlau 2008.
  3. Jakob I. König von England und Schottland (1566‒1625). Ein Friedensfürst im Zeitalter der Religionskriege, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2005.
  4. Nobilities in Transition. Courtiers and Rebels in Britain and Europe c. 1550‒1700, London: Edward Arnold 2003.
  5. The Thirty Years War. The Holy Roman Empire and Europe 1618‒1648, Basingstoke: Macmillan 1997.

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