Lionel Laborie
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. L.P.F. Laborie
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3546
- l.p.f.laborie@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-4800-7511
Lionel Laborie is an assistant professor at the Institute for History
More information about Lionel Laborie
Affiliations
PhD candidates
Fields of Interests
Religious dissent, migration and toleration in early modern Europe
The radical Reformation: prophecy, millenarianism, mysticism and religious utopias
Transnational religious, diplomatic and commercial networks
17th-18th Century Britain and France
Geopolitics: War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and the Great Northern War (1700-1720)
Research
My research concentrates on the cultural history of ideas and beliefs in early modern Europe, with a particular interest in religious dissenters, radicalism and tolerance in the long eighteenth century. My first monograph, Enlightening Enthusiasm (Manchester University Press, 2015), explores the debate on prophecy and 'religious madness' in early eighteenth-century English society and culture.
I am also interested in the role of religion in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century geopolitics, especially during the Restoration and the Glorious Revolution in England, the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), and the Great Northern War (1700-1720). I have published on the Camisard rebellion (1702-1710) and the Huguenot diaspora (1685-1800) in this context.
My current project explores transnational dissenting networks and the circulation of millenarian literature in the long eighteenth century. I am especially interested in the intersections between underground movements and commercial, diplomatic, family and religious networks.
I am currently editing a collection of early modern political prophecies for Brill. Other projects include Protestant missionaries to the Ottoman Empire, imposture and conspiracies, and Madagascar in early modern utopian thought.
Curriculum vitae
2016 - 17 Visiting Lecturer, University of Tübingen, Germany.
2013 - 16 Research Fellow, Department of History, Goldsmiths, University of London.
2011 - 13 Postdoctoral Researcher, School of History, University of East Anglia.
2008 - 10 Associate Tutor, School of History, University of East Anglia.
Grants and awards
2015 – Visiting Fellowship, John Rylands Institute, Manchester.
2014 – Visiting Fellowship, Oxford Brookes University.
2013-14 – Postdoctoral research fellowship, Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung (IKGF), Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
2013 – Research grant, Rausing Foundation, Sweden.
2012 – Postdoctoral research grant, Wellcome Trust, London, UK.
2012 – Brill Fellowship, Scaliger Institute, Leiden University, Netherlands.
2012 – Postdoctoral research grant, Prussian Privy State Archives, Berlin, Germany.
2012 – Herzog-Ernst Fellowship, Forschungszentrum, Gotha, Germany.
2011 – Georges and Pierre Regard postdoctoral research grant, University of Geneva.
2011 – Fritz Thyssen postdoctoral Fellowship, Francke Foundation, Halle, Germany.
2004-09 – PhD scholarship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
Assistant Professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Algemene Geschiedenis
- Laborie L.P.F. (2023), Religious persecution in eighteenth-century France, Leidschrift. Historisch Tijdschrift 38(1): 65-77.
- Laborie L.P.F. & Tricoire D. (Eds.) (2022), Apocalypse now: connected histories of eschatological movements from Moscow to Cusco, 15th-18th centuries. London: Routledge.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2022), Capitalism. In: Yeager J. (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of early evangelicalism: Oxford University Press.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2022), The Treaty of Nîmes (1704): fake news, propaganda and diplomacy during the war of the Spanish Succession, French History 36(3): 283-300.
- Laborie L.P.F. & Hessayon A. (Eds.) (2020), Early Modern Prophecies in Transnational, National and Regional Contexts (3 vols) no. 324. Leiden: Brill.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2020), Huguenot prophecies in eighteenth-century France. In: Laborie LP.F. & Hessayon A. (Eds.), Early Modern Prophecies in Transnational, National and Regional Contexts (SET - 3 volumes). Brill's Studies in Intellectual History. Leiden: Brill. 189-244.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2020), Etat des lieux du rayonnement Camisard dans les Refuges Protestants. In: Bisset S., Felton M.-C. & Wolfe C. (Eds.), Les Lumières de l’ombre: libres penseurs, hérétiques, espions / Exploring the Early Modern Underground: Freethinkers, Heretics, Spies. Paris: Honoré Champion. 197-218.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2020), Enthusiasm, Early Modern Philosophy, and Religion. In: Jalobeanu D. & Wolfe C.T. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences. online: Springer. 1-6.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2019), Shakers. In: , Oxford Bibliographies: Oxford University Press.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2018), Abraham Whitrow (fl. 1689-1714). In: , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Oxford University Press.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2018), Review of: Norris Clive (2017), The Financing of John Wesley's Methodism c.1740-1800. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Wesley and Methodist Studies 10(1): 91-93.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2018), French Prophets (act. 1706–c.1750). In: , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2017), Radical Tolerance in Early Enlightenment Europe, History of European Ideas 43(4): 359-375.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2017), From English “Trembleurs" to French “Inspirés": A Transnational Perspective on the Origins of French Quakerism (1654–1789). In: Heal B. & Kremers A. (Eds.), Radicalism and Dissent in the World of Protestant Reform. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht. 225-244.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2017), Review of: Marriott B. (2015), Transnational networks and cross-religious exchange in the seventeenth- century Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds. Sabbatai Sevi and the lost tribes of Israel. Universal Reform. Studies in Intellectual History, 1550–1700. Farnham–Burlington: Ashgate. Journal of Ecclesiastical History 68(2): 426-427.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2017), Vivre la Réforme: l'expérience anglaise de la dissidence, Bulletin annuel / Institut d’Histoire de la Réformation 38: 75-85.
- Laborie L.P.F., Millenarian Networks in Eighteenth-Century Europe: The French Connection. [web article].
- Laborie L.P.F. (2016), Philadelphia Resurrected: Celebrating the Union Act (1707) from Irenicism to Scatological Eschatology. In: Hessayon A. (Ed.), Jane Lead and her Transnational Legacy: Palgrave Macmillan. 213-240.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2016), Elie Marion (1678-1713), Camisard prophet. In: , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Oxford University Press. Article 109569.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2016), Bourbon, Armand de, marquis de Miremont (1655–1732). In: , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Oxford University Press. Article 109568.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2015), Enlightening Enthusiasm: Prophecy and Religious Experience in Eighteenth-Century England. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2015), Millenarian Portraits of Louis XIV. In: Claydon T. & Levillain C.-E. (Eds.), Louis XIV Outside In: The Image of the Sun King in Britain, Ireland and the Dutch Republic: Ashgate. 209-228.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2015), Sex, Drugs and Rock n’Roll: Religiöse Devianz im England des späten 17. Jahrhunderts. In: Schwerhoff G. & Piltz E. (Eds.), Gottlosigkeit und Eigensinn: Religiöse Devianz im konfessionellen Zeitalter no. Beiheft 51: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung. 413-433.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2015), Review of: McNeilly S. (2013), Philosophy, Literature, Mysticism: An Anthology of Essays on the Thought and Influence of Emanuel Swedenborg: Swedenborg Society. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 38(3): 471-472.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2014), Spreading the Seed: Toward a French Millenarian Network in Pietist Germany?. In: Mulsow M. & Multhammer M. (Eds.), Kriminelle - Freidenker - Alchemisten. Räume des Untergrunds in der Frühen Neuzeit. Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau-Verlag. 99-117.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2014), Review of: Monahan W. Gregory (2014), Let God Arise: The War and Rebellion of the Camisards: Oxford University Press. The Historical Review / La Revue Historique (11): 189-192.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2014), We love to laugh at modern prophets – but we’ve forgotten how much they matter, The Conversation : .
- Laborie L.P.F. (2013), The Huguenot Offensive against the Camisard Prophets in the English Refuge (1685-1710). In: McKee J. & Vigne R. (Eds.), The Huguenots: France, Exile and Diaspora: Sussex Academic Press. 125-133.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2013), Review of: Rosenberg J. (2011), Critical Enthusiasm: Capital Accumulation and the Transformation of Religious Passion: Oxford University Press. Eighteenth-Century Studies 46(2): 311-312.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2013), Review of: Trim D.J.B. (2012), The Huguenots: History and Memory in Transnational Context. Essays in Honour and Memory of Walter C. Utt. Leiden: Brill. Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 82(2): 456-457.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2013), Review of: Onnekink D. & Rommelse G. (2011), Ideology and Foreign Policy in Early Modern Europe (1650-1750): Ashgate. Seventeenth Century 28(2): 242-243.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2012), Huguenot Propaganda and the Millenarian Legacy of the Désert in the Refuge (1702-1730), Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland XXIX(5): 640-654.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2011), Who were the Camisards?, French Studies Bulletin 32(120): 54-57.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2011), Review of: Randall Catharine (2009), From a Far Country: Camisards and Huguenots in the Atlantic World: University of Georgia Press. Sixteenth-Century Journal LXII(4): 1257-1258.
- Laborie L.P.F. (2011), Review of: Apetrei S. (2010), Women, Feminism and Religion in Early Enlightenment England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Enlightenment and Dissent (27): 196-200.