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Robert Frost

Professor
Head of School of Divinity, History and Philosophy

MA (St Andrews), 1980
PhD (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London University), 1990
Diploma in Polish Language and Culture (Jagiellonian University in Cracow), 1981

Research Interests

My main interests lie in the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in particular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I am also interested in the history of warfare in northern and eastern Europe from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the Thirty Years War, and the history of Sweden. I am currently working on the Oxford History of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385-1815 for Oxford University Press.

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Selected Publications

Monographs

  1. After the Deluge: Poland-Lithuania and the Second Northern War, 1655-1660. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993).
  2. The Northern Wars: War, State and Society in Eastern and Northern Europe 1558-1721 (Longmans, Harlow, 2000).

Co-edited Books

  1. Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (co-edited and introduction written with Dr Anne Goldgar) (Brill, Leiden, Boston, Köln, 2004).

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Chapters and Articles

  1. ‘Liberty without Licence? The failure of Polish democratic thought in the seventeenth century’ in Marian B. Biskupski and James S. Pula (eds) Polish Democratic Thought from the Renaissance to the Great Emigration: Essays and Documents East European Monographs No. 289 (Columbia University Press, New York, 1990), pp. 29-54.
  2. ‘The Nobility of Poland-Lithuania, 1569-1795’ in Hamish M. Scott (ed.) The European Nobilities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Vol. 2 North, East and Central Europe pp. 183-222 (Longmans, 1995).
  3. ‘Polen-Litauen und der Dreißigjährigen Krieg’ in Klaus Bußman and Heinz Schilling (eds) 1648. Krieg und Frieden in Europa Textband I Politik Recht, Religion und Gesellschaft (Veranstaltungsgesellschaft 350 Jahre Westfälischer Friede mbH, Münster/Osnabrück, 1998), pp. 197-206.
  4. English version of item 8: ‘Poland-Lithuania and the Thirty Years War’ in Klaus Bußman and Heinz Schilling (eds.) War and Peace in Europe Volume I Politics, Religion, Law and Society (Veranstaltungsgesellschaft 350 Jahre Westfälischer Friede mbH, Münster/Osnabrück, 1998), pp. 197-205; published on the net at: http://www.lwl.org/westfaelischer-friede/wfe-t/wfe-dokaet.htm#bd1
  5.  ‘Initium Calamitatis Regni? John Casimir and monarchical power in Poland-Lithuania 1648-1668’ European History Quarterly 16, no. 2 (1986), pp. 181-207.

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Forthcoming

Books under contract

  1. The Formation of the Ancien Régime: Europe 1580-1690 (Under contract with Longmans for the Longman History of Modern Europe series; general editors M.J. Rodriguez-Salgado and H.M. Scott).
  2. The Oxford History of the Polish-Lithuanian Union 1385-1815 (Under contract with Oxford University Press for the Oxford History of Early Modern Europe series).
  3. I have been approached by Blackwells to write the volume on Central and Eastern Europe for the Blackwell History of the World series. I shall prepare a proposal this summer.
  4. A revised version of item 5 is to be published in a new edition of the collection to be published by Palgrave. The contract is to be issued shortly, delivery date late 2004.
  5. Chapters on the Cossack Revolts and the Northern Wars in the Handbuch der Geschichte Polens to be organised by the Herder Institute in Marburg and edited by a team led by Professor Michael Müller of Halle-Wittenberg University. The contract is signed and the articles will be submitted in 2005 for publication in 2006-7.