Professor Robert Frost
Burnett Fletcher Chair of History
Personal Details
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1224 272453 |
| E-mail: | robert.frost@abdn.ac.uk |
| Address: | School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen, AB24 3UB. Room 112 Crombie Annexe. |
Biography
Professor Frost was educated at St Andrews University, the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, where he wrote his doctorate under the supervision of Professor Norman Davies. He was appointed to a chair in Early Modern History and as Head of School for Divinity, History and Philosophy in September 2004. He joined the University from King's College, London, where he was Reader in Early Modern History and Head of the History Department. His main interests lie in the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in particular from c 1550 to c 1725. He is also interested in the history of warfare in northern and eastern Europe form the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the Thirty Years War and the history of Sweden. In his work on Poland-Lithuania he has a particular interest in the Polish-Lithuanian monarchy under the Vasa dynasty (1587-1668) and in noble society and culture.
His first book, After the Deluge: Poland-Lithuania and the Second Northern War (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993) is a study of the political impact on Poland-Lithuania of the series of wars which engulfed it after the great Cossack rebellion of 1648-54.He has also published The Northern Wars: War State and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558 - 1721 (Longmans, Harlow, 2000), which won the 2005 Early Slavic Studies Association Distinguished Scholarship Award.
In 2009 Professor Frost stood down as Head of School, and was awarded a British Academy/Wolfson Foundation Research Chair for 2009-12, to complete a history of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1386-1815 for Oxford University Press.
He teaches early modern European history and courses on the Military Revolution, the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) and on the nobilities of Europe in the early modern period. He is willing to undertake doctoral supervision on any aspect of early modern Polish-Lithuanian history, on military history of the early modern period, on the Thirty Years War and on Swedish history between 1523 and 1718.
Doctoral Students
Dr Arturas Vadiliauskas: 'The Szlachta of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the reign of Sigismund III, 1587-1632; (London PhD Thesis awarded 2001)
Dr Dominic Phelps: 'Saxony and the Thirty Years War, 1629-1635' (London PhD Thesis awarded 2004).
Dr Christoph Witzenrath: 'Institutional Culture and the Government of Siberia, 1598-1721' (London PhD Thesis, awarded 2005).
Dr Piotr Stolarski: 'Friars on the Frontier: the Dominican Order in Southeastern Poland in the reign of Władysław IV, 1632-1648' (University of Aberdeen PhD Thesis, awarded 2008).
Mr Lewis Rattray: 'Scotland and the Military Revolution' (Aberdeen PhD thesis, 2006-).
Publications
- Frost, RI. The Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1386-1795, Article, 2013, British Academy Review, 21, pp7 - 10, ISSN/ISBN: 2047-1866
- Frost, RI. Kosakenaufstnde und Zweiter Nordischer Krieg (1648-1667), Conference contribution, 2012, Polen in der Europischen Geschichte, 2, pp349 - 368
- Frost, RI. Schsisch-polnische Personalunion und die Katastrophe des Groen Nordischen Krieges, Conference contribution, 2012, Polen in der Europischen Geschichte
- Frost, RI. The Impact of War, Conference contribution, 2012, The Holy Roman Empire 1495-1806: A European Perspective, 1, pp239 - 257
- Frost, RI. The limits of dynastic power. Poland-Lithuania, Sweden and the problem of composite monarchy in the Age of the Vasas, 1562-1668, Chapter, 2012, The Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History, pp137 - 154
- Frost, RI. What it meant, everyone understoodӔ The Impact of the Battle of Poltava on the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, Conference contribution, 2012, Poltava 1709. The Battle and the Myth, pp159 - 176
- Frost, RI. "The penury of these malignant regions", Conference contribution, 2011, Scotland and Poland, pp109 - 131
- Frost, RI. Hiding from the Dogs, Conference contribution, 2011, Scotland and Poland
- Frost, RI. Ut unusquisque qui vellet, ad illum venire possitӔ. Nobility, citizenship and corporate decision-making in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1454-1795, Conference contribution, 2011, Was den Adel adlig macht. Adliger Eigensinn in Recht, Politik und sthetik Europas (16.- 20. Jahrhundert), pp142 - 163
- Frost, RI. Ograniczenia wladzy dynastycznej. Rzeczpospolita Polsko-Litewska, Szwecja a problem monarchii zlozonej w epoce Wazw, 1562-1668, Conference contribution, 2010, Prablemy integratsyi i inkarporacyi u razvitstsi Tsentral'nai i Uskhodniai Europy u peryiad ranniaha Novaha chasu
- Frost, RI. Pelen unizonosci brak szacunku, Conference contribution, 2010, Rozkwit i upadek I Rzeczypospolitej, pp187 - 210
- Frost, RI. Union as process, Conference contribution, 2009, Forging the State. European State Formation and the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707, pp69 - 92
- Frost, RI. Ordering the Kaleidoscope: nation and State Power in the lands of Poland-Lithuania since 1569, Chapter, 2005, In: Power and the Nation in History (eds. Zimmer, O.;Scales, L.) Cambridge University Press, pp212 - 231
- Frost, RI. & Goldgar, A. Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society, Book, 2004
- Frost, RI. Konfesjonalizacja a wojsko w Rzeczypospolitej 1558-1668 (Confessionalisation and the army in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1558-1668, Chapter, 2004, In: Rzeczypospolita wielu wyznan (eds. Link-Lenczowski, A., Markiewicz, M., Kazmierczyk, A. Matwijowski, K.) Ksiegarnia Akademicka, Cracow, pp89 - 98
- Frost, RI. Regalisci bez regalizmu? Dwr krlewski a szlachta w czasach Waz㳳w (Regalists without regalism? The royal court and the szlachta in the Vasa period), Chapter, 2003, In: Dwr a kraj. Miedzy centrum a peryferiami wladzy. (ed. Skowron, R.) Wydawnictwo Zamku Krlewskiego na Wawelu, pp295 - 306
- Frost, RI. W sprawie zachodnej techniki wojennej w okresie wojen plnocnych (On the question of military technology in the period of the Northern Wars), Chapter, 2003, In: Miedzy zachodem a wschodem. Studia z dziejw Rzeczypospolitej w epoce nowozytnej (eds. Staszewski, J., Mikulski, K., Dumanowski, J.) Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek, Torun, pp293 - 300
- Frost, RI. Obsequious Disrespect: The problem of royal power in Poland-Lithuania under the Vasas, 1587-1668, Chapter, 2001, In: The Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context c.1500-1795 (ed. Butterwick, R.) Palgrave, pp150 - 171
- Frost, RI. Scottish Soldiers in the service of Poland-Lithuania, 1577-1661, Chapter, 2001, In: Scotland and the Thirty Years War (ed. Murdoch, S.) Leiden, Boston, Koln: Brill 2001, pp191 - 213
- Frost, RI. The Northern Wars, Book, 2000
- Frost, RI. Confessionalisation and the army in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1550-1667, Conference contribution, 1999, Konfessionalisierung in Ostmitteleuropa. Wirkungen des religisen Wandels im 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts in Staat, Gesellschaft und Kultur, pp139 - 60
- Frost, RI. Polen-Litauen und der Dreiigjߤhrigen Krieg, Chapter, 1998, 1648. Krieg und Frieden in Europa Ausstellungskatalog, pp197 - 206
- Frost, RI. Potop a teoria Rewolucji Militarnej, Chapter, 1996, Rzeczpospolita w latach Potopu , pp147 - 65
- Frost, RI. The Nobility of Poland-Lithuania, 1569-1795, Conference contribution, 1995, The European Nobilities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Vol. 2 North, East and Central Europe, pp183 - 222
- Frost, RI. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Military Revolution', Chapter, 1994, Poland and Europe: Historical Dimensions, pp19 - 47
- Frost, RI. After the Deluge, Book, 1993
- Frost, RI. Liberty without Licence? The failure of Polish democratic thought in the seventeenth century, Conference contribution, 1990, Polish Democratic Thought from the Renaissance to the Great Emigration: Essays and Documents, pp29 - 54
- Frost, RI. Initium Calamitatis Regni? John Casimir and monarchical power in Poland-Lithuania 1648-1668, Article, 1986, European History Quarterly, 16, 2, pp181 - 207, ISSN/ISBN: 0265-6914