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Dr. Linda KirkM.A. (Cantab.), Ph.D. (Lond.), FRHistSHonorary Lecturer in Early Modern History 18th c. Europe, 18th c. Geneva
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Linda Kirk's undergraduate education was at Cambridge, and after a short while lecturing at the then University College of Rhodesia she returned to England, simultaneously starting part-time work on her doctorate at London University and teaching at Sheffield University, where she has now been over 30 years. Her main research interests lie in the history of seventeenth and eighteenth-century ideas and their connections with social and political behaviour in ancien régime Europe. She has written on the resurgence of religious intolerance in Europe in the late seventeenth century. She has focused, however, on the city-state of Geneva, especially in the eighteenth century, publishing a number of articles and working on a book-length study. In exploring the ways in which eighteenth-century understandings of political culture gave rise to what moderns perceive as states, participation-rights and revolutions she engages with both the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and has published on Tom Paine. She belongs to the British Society for Eighteenth-century Studies and the Ecclesiastical History Society and is a founder member and regular attender of the Political Thought Conference that meets in Oxford each January. Research
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Books / Special Issues - Richard Cumberland and Natural Law, (Cambridge, James Clark, 1987).
Essays and Articles - The Logic of Self-determination in S. Bahar and V. Cossie, eds., Geneva, an English Enclave 1725-1814, (Slatkine, Geneva, 2009). - 'Indefinite Success: Religion and Culture in Eighteenth-century Geneva' in Elite and Popular Religion: Studies in Church History (42, 2006) pp. 305-314. - 'The Matter of Enlightenment', Historical Journal, 43 (2000) 1129-1143. - '"Going soft": Genevan Decadence in the Eighteenth Century', in John B. Roney and Martin I. Klauber (eds), The Identity of Geneva: The Christian Commonwealth 1564-1864, (Westport, CT, Greenwood, 1998). - 'Genevan Republicanism', in David Wootton (ed), Republicanism, Liberty and Commercial Society, 1649-1776, (Stanford, CUP, 1994). - 'A Poor Church in a Rich City: the Case of Geneva' in Marcel Pacaut et Olivier Fatio (eds.) L'Hostie et le Denier: Les Finances Ecclésiastiques du Haut Moyen Age à l'époque Moderne, Actes du Colloque de la Commission internationale d'histoire ecclésiastique comparée, Genève août 1989, (Geneva, 1991). |
