Maps, photos, iconography, and documents will be provided for certain localities and topics. The Mercenaries Site will soon be up and running, offering a glimpse of soldiers for hire. This sites is an offshoot of my research on the French Wars of Religion, in which many Swiss, German, English, Italian, and other mercenaries fought. The emphasis will be on sixteenth and seventeenth-century mercenaries, but I expect the site to widen its focus as it develops. Since I enjoy certain forms of early modern music, I hope to assemble a guide to appreciating them here.
All historians are teachers in a fundamental sense.
I love teaching history and talking about teaching methods, so I am assembling a series of my own ideas on teaching, as well as resources on the craft of teaching. This site grew out of a conference paper delivered at the World 2000 Conference on Teaching History and Geography held in Austin, Texas in February 2000. The Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe is an offshoot of a course that I am designing on Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe and an article that I am writing on French women's experiences during the final stages of the French Wars of Religion in Languedoc and Guyenne.