About
Lionel Laborie is a visiting Researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Areas of research and teaching interest: Religious dissent and toleration, enthusiasm and millenarianism, social networks in early modern Europe. Anglo-French relations (17th-18th centuries), the Huguenot diaspora, wars of religion and absolutism. History of ideas, history of madness and the Enlightenment.
Professional affiliations: The Williamite Universe, American Historical Association(A.H.A.), Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (C.S.E.C.S.), Centre d’Etude d’Histoire de la Médecine (C.E.H.M.), Toulouse, France.
Education:
- 2004-11 PhD (part-time) in early modern British history, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, in conjunction with the University of Pau (UPPA), France (First class honours/mention très honorable). Dissertation title: ‘The French Prophets: A Cultural Approach to Religious Enthusiasm in Post-Toleration England (1689-1730)’. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
- 2003-04 MPhil (DEA) in early modern British history (First class honours), UPPA.
- 2001-02 MA (Maîtrise) in early modern British history (First class honours), UPPA.
- 1998-01 BA (Licence) in English and American studies (2:1).
Awards, Training and Fellowships:
- Postdoctoral research fellowship, IKGF, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, 2013-14.
- Research grant, Birgit and Gat Rausing Foundation, Sweden, 2013.
- Travel grant, Comité genevois pour l’histoire du protestantisme francais, Switzerland, 2013.
- Postdoctoral research grant, Wellcome Trust, London, UK, 2012.
- 2012: Brill Fellowship, Scaliger Institute, Leiden University, Netherlands.
- 2012: Postdoctoral research grant, Prussian Privy State Archives, Berlin, Germany.
- 2012: Herzog-Ernst Fellowship, Forschungszentrum, Gotha, Germany.
- 2011: Georges and Pierre Regard postdoctoral research grant, University of Geneva.
- 2011: Fritz Thyssen postdoctoral Fellowship, Francke Foundation, Halle, Germany.
- 2011: Summer course at the Institut d’Histoire de la Réformation (IHR), Geneva, funded by the IHR.
- 2010: Royal Historical Society conference grant.
- 2004-09: PhD scholarship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
- 2003-04: MPhil scholarship from the French government.
Publications
Book:
- Religious Enthusiasm in Early Enlightenment England: Camisards, French and English Prophets (1685-1750), under contract with Manchester University Press.
Articles:
- Sex, Drugs and Rock n’Roll: Unnatural Religion in Late Stuart England’, in Gerd Schwerhoff and Eric Pilz (eds), Religiöse Devianz in der Frühen Neuzeit (forthcoming 2013).
- Spreading the Seed: Toward a French Millenarian Network in Pietist.
- Germany?, in Kriminelle – Freidenker – Alchemisten. Räume des Untergrunds in der Frühen Neuzeit, edited by Martin Mulsow and Michael Multhammer (Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau-Verlag 2012).
- The Huguenot Offensive against the Camisard Prophets in the English Refuge (1685-1710)’, in Jane McKee and Randolph Vigne (eds), The Huguenots: France, Exile and Diaspora (Sussex Academic Press, in press).
- ‘A Cry from the Desart’: An Anglo-Dutch Perspective on the Protestant Rebellion in Languedoc (1685-1715)’, in preparation, to be submitted to «The Historical Journal» by November 2012.
- Sur les traces des Prophètes Camisards en Allemagne Piétiste, «Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français» (B.S.H.P.F.), in preparation.
- Huguenot Propaganda and the Millenarian Legacy of the Désert in the Refuge (1702-1730), Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland (forthcoming, 2012).
- Who were the Camisards?, «French Studies Bulletin», vol. 32, no. 120 (autumn 2011), pp. 54-57.
- Entre Fanatisme et Folie Religieuse: une étude comparative de l’enthousiasme en Angleterre et en France (1520-1760), «Cahiers du Centre d’Etude d’Histoire de la Médecine» (C.E.H.M.): Histoire de la Folie II (Toulouse: C.E.H.M, 2009), no. 17, pp. 79-87.
- De l’Enthousiasme dans l’Angleterre de la post-Tolérance – L’affaire des prophètes français de Londres’, «Bulletin du Centre d’Etude d’Histoire de la Médecine» (C.E.H.M.) (Toulouse: C.E.H.M, 2008), no. 63, pp. 77-91.
Book reviews:
- Jordana Rosenberg, Critical Enthusiasm: Capital Accumulation and the Transformation of Religious Passion(Oxford University Press, 2011), Eighteenth-Century Studies, under review.
- Sarah Apetrei, Women, Feminism and Religion in Early Enlightenment England (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Enlightenment and Dissent, 27 (2011), pp. 196-200.
- Catharine Randall, From a Far Country: Camisards and Huguenots in the Atlantic World (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2009), «Sixteenth-Century Journal», vol. LXII/no. 4 (Winter 2011), pp. 1257-1258.
Research in progress:
- Book-length study on Millenarian Networks in Enlightenment Europe: The French Connection (1685-1750). Book-length study provisionally entitled Clavis Prophetica: The Origins of Early Modern Prophecies.
Conference Papers and Invited Lectures:
- Aug. 2013: ‘Inspiring Bodies: Communicating Enthusiasm Across National Boundaries’, Internationaler Pietismuskongress, University of Halle, Germany.
- Apr. 2013: ‘To Foment or not to Foment? Tilting the European Balance of Powers around 1700’, Peace of Utrecht Congress, Utrecht, Netherlands.
- Feb. 2013: International conference on religious non-conformism and cultural dynamics, University of Leipzig, Germany. Title to be confirmed.
- Dec. 2012: George Cheyne and the Scottish Quietists, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, France.
- Nov. 2012: University of Geneva. Title to be confirmed.
- Sept. 2012: ‘Connecting Networks: Prophecy and Diplomacy in the Huguenot Diaspora’, University of Vienna, Austria.
- May 2012: ‘Sun King or Antichrist? A Millenarian Outlook on Louis XIV (1685-1715)’, Maison Française, Oxford, U.K.
- Mar. 2012: ‘Sex, Drugs and Rock n’Roll: Unnatural Religion in Late Stuart England (1660-1714)’, Technical University, Dresden, Germany.
- Feb. 2012: ‘Embodying the Holy Spirit: the Cessationist Debate in the Protestant World around 1700’, University of Graz, Austria.
- Jan. 2012: ‘Huguenot Propaganda and the Millenarian Legacy of the Désert in the Refuge (1702-1730)’, Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland, London.
- Nov. 2011: ‘Miremont’s Diplomatic Network and the War of the Cévennes’, Utrecht University, Netherlands.
- Oct. 2011: ‘French Prophets in Pietist Germany: A Transnational Spiritualist Encounter (1710-1720)’, Francke Foundation, Halle, Germany.
- Oct. 2011: ‘Huguenot Exiles in the German Refuge (1685-1720), Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany.
- Feb. 2011: ‘The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend: The War of the Camisards Seen from Abroad (1702-1710)’, The Society for French Historical Studies annual meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.
- Sept. 2010: ‘Huguenots vs. Camisards: England and the Integration of French Protestants (1685-1710)’, Fifth International Huguenot congress, University of Ulster, UK.
- Jan. 2010: ‘Out of their Senses? The Physicality of Religious Enthusiasm in England (1700-1730)’, American Society of Church History (A.S.C.H.) / American Historical Association (A.H.A.) annual meeting, San Diego, U.S.A.
- June 2009: ‘Prophecy and the Limits of Toleration in England (1689-1730)’, Nottingham Trent University, U.K.
- Oct. 2008: ‘The Bible Re-enacted: the French Prophets’ Millenarianism under Queen Anne’, Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (C.S.E.C.S.), 2008 annual meeting, Montreal, Canada.
- July 2008: ‘The Huguenot Exodus and its Politico-Economic Impact in Europe (1685-1730)’, San Francisco Economic Roundtable, San Francisco, U.S.A.
- Feb. 2008: ‘Convulsions, Médecins et Nouveaux Prophètes à Londres au XVIIIème siècle’, Centre d’Etude d’Histoire de la Médecine (C.E.H.M.), Toulouse, France.
