John Condren

Contact Details

E-mail: jc866@st-andrews.ac.uk

Thesis Title: 'Reichsitalien and France during the Personal Rule of Louis XIV, 1661-90' 
Supervisor: Dr Guy Rowlands

John is from the Republic of Ireland, where he received his secondary education at Kilkenny College. He was awarded an LLB in Law and European Studies from the University of Limerick (2009) followed by an MLitt in Reformation Studies from the University of St Andrews (2010). His doctoral research (supervised by Dr Guy Rowlands) is an examination of the diplomatic, economic and cultural ties between Louis XIV’s France and the states of northern Italy in the second half of the seventeenth century. His interests include European diplomatic, political, economic, military, social and cultural history between 1494 and 1740, and particularly relating to France, the Italian states, the Spanish composite monarchy, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Stuart kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland. He is also interested in the efforts of the Jacobite pretenders to establish and portray themselves as credible alternatives to Williamite and Hanoverian rulers. He is presently investigating the various contexts wherein one can speak of transnationalism and globalisation in the early modern period.

Conferences:

  • "L'abbé Jean Morel et l'acquisition de la citadelle de Casal par la France, 1680-81" (table ronde de séminaire de Lucien Bély, Paris IV-Sorbonne, January 2013)
  • "A transnational relationship in the early modern period: Louis XIV and Maria Beatrice d'Este" (Society for the Study of French History Annual Conference, University of York, July 2012)

Organisation:

  • Responsible (with Malcolm Petrie) for co-ordinating Postgraduate Forums for the School of Modern History.
  • Also co-organising the annual St Andrews-Aberdeen postgraduate conference, which will take place at the University of Aberdeen in May 2012.

Other:

  • ERASMUS exchange at European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy, February-May 2013
  • Recipient of a Research Travel Award from the Royal Historical Society, 2012-13
  • Recipient of the Thomas and Margaret Roddan Trust 2012-13
  • Recipient of a Society for the Study of French History Travel Bursary, 2012-13
  • Visiting student at the Centre Roland Mousnier, Université de Paris-Sorbonne IV, autumn 2012
  • Resident of the Centre Culturel Irlandais/Irish College, Paris, autumn 2012
  • In receipt of a tuition fees scholarship from the University of St Andrews, 2011-14