The Social Roots of Religious Violence in Sixteenth-Century Paris
TBE
Tom Hamilton’s research focuses on the social and cultural history of early modern Europe, especially France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
His most recent book is, A Widow’s Vengeance after the Wars of Religion: Gender and Justice in Renaissance France, published by Oxford University Press in 2024. It demonstrates how plaintiffs like the powerful widow Renée Chevalier revitalized the practice of justice after France’s sixteenth-century troubles, and reshaped the laws of war in the process. This book was awarded the Natalie Zemon Davis Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society.
Tom’s current research is supported by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and the Inventing Futures programme at Durham’s Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. He leads the project Forging Social Solidarities during Religious Wars, which it asks how society can hold together when civil war breaks out because of religious differences.
