Louis XIV and the Peace of Europe

This book is the first serious full-length study of Louis XIV's diplomatic relations with the small states of northern Italy, specifically the duchies of Parma, Modena, and Mantua-Monferrato.

Auteur

John Condren received an MLitt and subsequently a PhD in History from the University of St Andrews, after completing an undergraduate degree in Law and European Studies at the University of Limerick. He has taught at the Universities of Limerick, St Andrews, and Oxford, and is currently an Assistant Professor in History at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses primarily on the diplomatic, political, military, intellectual, and cultural history of the Italian peninsula, the kingdom of France, the Republic of Geneva, and the Swiss Confederacy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is his first book.