Stuart Carroll

Stuart Carroll (born 1965) is British historian and academic, who specialises in early modern Europe. He is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of York.

Carroll was born in 1965 in Whitechapel, London, England. He undertook his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree at the University of Bristol and his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the University of London.

Carroll was awarded the J. Russell Major Prize of the American Historical Association in 2011 for the best French history book of the year for his Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe (2009). In 2024, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

Selected publications

• Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
• Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Cultures of Violence: Interpersonal Violence in Historical Perspective (editor). Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
• Blood and Violence in Early Modern France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Noble Power during the French Wars of Religion: the Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

External links

• Stuart Carroll on Homicide and the Civilizing Process.
• Strata: Stuart Carroll.