Stuart Carroll

Stuart Carroll, FBA, FRHistS (born 1965) is a British historian and academic, who specialises in early modern Europe. Since 2007, he has been Professor of Early Modern History at the University of York.^[1]

Carroll was born in 1965 in Whitechapel, London, England.^[2] He undertook his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree at the University of Bristol and his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the University of London.^[1]

In 1992, Carroll joined the University of York as a lecturer in its Department of History.^[3] Having been previously promoted to senior lecturer, he was appointed Professor of Early Modern History in 2007.^[1][3] He served as Head of the Department at History from 2011 to 2015.^[3]

Carroll was awarded the J. Russell Major Prize of the American Historical Association in 2011 for the best French history book of the year for his Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe (2009).^[1]

In 2013, Carroll was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).^[3][4] In 2024, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[5]

• Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
• Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Cultures of Violence: Interpersonal Violence in Historical Perspective (editor). Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
• Blood and Violence in Early Modern France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Noble Power during the French Wars of Religion: the Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

• Stuart Carroll on Homicide and the Civilizing Process.
• Strata: Stuart Carroll.