Adam Marks

MA (Hons.), MLitt (St Andrews).

Contact Details.
ram7@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research Interests.
My main research interests revolve around the various roles played by Britons in the conflicts which engulfed Europe between 1600 and 1660 and more broadly in the activities of the English and Scottish abroad during the early modern period.

Thesis Title: England, The English and the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648).
Supervisor: Professor Steve Murdoch.

My doctoral thesis assesses the role of England during the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648), and will provide the first major study of the 50-60,000 Englishmen who fought for the ‘Protestant Cause’ within the armies of countries such as the Dutch Republic, Denmark and Sweden. These findings provide another perspective on a number of widely accepted theories, such as the demise of English military power throughout the period. The actions of these men openly contributed not only to crucial European events, such as during the struggle to hold the Palatinate (1620-1623) and at the sieges of Maastricht and Breda (1632 and 1637) but also to domestic events such as the break down of relations between the Crown and Parliament during the period. This research also provides a contribution to the beginnings of a wider analysis of the English abroad during the early modern period, which has been sorely under researched.

Publications.

  • ‘English Intervention? Fleetwood’s regiment and the Battle of Wittstock’ in Brandenburgisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologisches Landesmuseum series, (Brandenburg, forthcoming 2014).
  • ‘“Artillery which has given a broadside of great effect” The English Colleges in Spain and their impact on the British Isles during the early Seventeenth Century’, in (eds.) Bernardo J. García and Óscar R. Morales Las Corporaciones de Nación en la Monarquía Hispánica (1580-1750): Identidad, Patronazgo Y Redes de Sociabildad (Madrid, forthcoming 2013).
  • ‘The Battle of Wittstock 1636: Conflicting Reports on a Swedish Victory in Germany’ co-authored with Professor S Murdoch and Dr K Zickermann in Northern Studies vol.43 (2012).
  • A Database of the Scots in the Italian Peninsular during the Thirty Years’ War (hosted by the University of St Andrews, 2009 onwards).
  • ‘The Scots in the Italian Peninsular during the Thirty Years’ War,’ in (eds.) T. O’Connor and M.A. Lyons, The Ulster Earls and Baroque Europe (Dublin, 2009) pp.327-348.

Reviews.

  • Review of Peter H. Wilson, Europe’s Tragedy: a history of the Thirty Years War (London, 2009) in Northern Studies vol.43 (2012).
  • Review of David Worthington (ed.) British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688 (Leiden, 2010) in History Scotland, vol.11, no.5, (September/October 2011) p.60.
  • Review of Dukes, G.P. Herd and J. Kotilaine, Stuarts and Romanovs: The Rise and Fall of a Special Relationship (Dundee, 2009) in History Scotland, vol.10, no.3 (May/June 2011) p.55.

Main Academic Papers.

  • A policy of peace? The Stuart monarchy’s relationship with European Politics and War during the early seventeenth century. Kings and Queens: Politics, Power, Patronage and Personalities in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy (Bath Spa University, April 2012).
  • England and the Thirty Years’ War (University of Kent seminar series. February 2012).
  • The English Colleges in Spain and their impact on the British Isles during the early Seventeenth Century. Las Corporaciones de Nación en la Monarquía Hispánica (1580-1750). Identidad, Patronazgo Y Redes de Sociabildad (Fundación Carlos de Amberes, Madrid, November 2011).
  • English Intervention? Fleetwood's regiment at the Battle of Wittstock. Battlefield and mass grave – a range of interdisciplinary analyses of places of violence (Brandenburgisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologisches Landesmuseum, Brandenburg, November 2011).
  • Within the crucible of revolution: English Soldiers Abroad c.1600-1650. The ‘Military Revolution’ in the British Isles between 1500 and 1700. (Jesus College, Oxford University, May 2011).
  • The English Military Diaspora in Europe, 1618-1648. English & Welsh Diaspora: Regional Cultures, Disparate Voices, Remembered Lives (Loughborough University, April 2011).
  • In the service of the Crown and Protestantism: English Soldiers in the Palatinate and Bohemia during the Thirty Years’ War. The British Commission for Military History: New Research in Military History (University of Sussex, November 2010).
  • Sir George Fleetwood’s Regiment during the Thirty Years’ War. New Research in the History of Warfare (University of Cambridge, August 2010).
  • Pamphleteering and Preaching: British Motivations for Participation in the Thirty Years’ War. Experiencing Texts (University of York, July 2009).
  • The Scots in the Italian Peninsular during the Thirty Years’ War. Awakening Irish Identities: The Ulster Earls in Baroque Europe (Irish Pontifical College, Rome, October 2007).

Conferences Organised.

  • Aberdeen and St Andrews University Postgraduate Conference (2010, University of Aberdeen).

Teaching.

  • MO1005: Early Modern Europe, 1450-1650.

Other.