Paul Kléber Monod (born 25 June 1957) is a

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-born academic historian specializing in

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and

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in the 17th and 18th centuries. Since 1984 he has taught at

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, where he is now A. Barton Hepburn Professor of History, and he is the author of a number of books and articles dealing with his period.

Early life

Monod graduated BA from

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in May 1978, then spent a number of years at

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, graduating MA in 1979,

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in 1980, and PhD in 1985.Paul Monod
at middlebury.edu/academics, accessed 17 June 2013 His doctoral dissertation at Yale was entitled ''The King shall enjoy his own again: English Jacobitism, 1688-1780''.John M. Merriman, ''For Want of a Horse: Choice and Chance in History'' (1985), p. 109

Career

Monod's main teaching career has been at

since 1984, when he was appointed as an assistant professor. In 1991 he became an associate professor there and has been the college's A. Barton Hepburn Professor of History since 1996. In 1990–1991 he was a

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Visiting Fellow at the

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, between 1993 and 1994 he taught at the summer courses of the

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, and he was a visiting lecturer at the Aston Magna Academy at Yale in 1997. In 2000–2001 he was a visiting fellow at

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. His first book, ''Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788'' (1989) has been considered "an important monograph", although it has also been criticized for being "overly sympathetic to the Stuart cause." ''The Murder of Mr Grebell: Madness and Civility in an English Town'' (2003) begins with the murder of a

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in the English port of Rye in 1743, considering its background as far back as the

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of the 16th century, then looks at events over the next two hundred years. His book ''Solomon's Secret Arts'' (2013) grew out of work he did in the 1990s on the papers of

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(1623–1690), an

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.Ann Mayhew
Occult Illuminator: PW Talks With Paul Kleber Monod
dated May 24, 2013, at publishersweekly.com, accessed 17 June 2013

Major publications

* ''The King shall enjoy his own again: English Jacobitism, 1688-1780'' (Yale dissertation, 1985) * ''Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788'' (

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, 1989) * ''The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1588-1715'' (

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, 1999) * ''The Murder of Mr Grebell: Madness and Civility in an English Town'' (Yale University Press, 2003) * ''Imperial Island: a History of Britain and its Empire'' (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) * ''Loyalty and Identity: Jacobites at Home and Abroad'' (Palgrave, 2009) (ed., with Murray Pittock and Daniel Szechi) * ''Solomon's Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment'' (2013)

Selected articles

* 'Jacobitism and Country Principles in the Reign of William III', in ''

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'', 30 (1987), pp. 290–310 * 'Dangerous Merchandise: Smuggling, Jacobitism, and Commercial Culture in Southeast England, 1690-1760', in ''

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'', XXX (1991), pp. 150–182

Notes

External links

Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788
at books.google.com
The Murder of Mr Grebell: Madness and Civility in an English Town
at books.google.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Monod, Paul Kleber 1957 births Living people Middlebury College faculty Yale University alumni Princeton University alumni