Associate Professor Office: 452 Fletcher Argue E-mail: Erik.Thomson@ad.umanitoba.ca Phone: (204) 480-1057 EDUCATION Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University M.A., The Johns Hopkins University B.A.H. (1st Class), Queen's University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am a historian of early modern Europe, with special interests in French and Swedish history.  My current major work concerns how commerce reshaped politics in the early seventeenth century, looking particularly at ministers such as Cardinal Richelieu and Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna. I'm also interested in the processes of early modern elite interaction, and how they shaped late-Renaissance culture and more modern notions of cosmopolitanism.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“Le Travail du diplomate et la diffusion des idées politiques à l’époque moderne : la Fronde vue par le résident suédois Schering Rosenhane (1648-1649),” Histoire, Economie & Sociétés, (Avril, 2010): 5-15.

“The Dutch Miracle, Modified: Commercial governance and imperial war in the early seventeenth century,” Grotiana, 30 (2009): 107-130.

“France’s Grotian moment? Hugo Grotius and Cardinal Richelieu’s Commercial Statecraft,” French History, (December, 2007): 377-394.

“Axel Oxenstierna and books,” Sixteenth Century Journal, XXXVIII/3 (Fall, 2007), 705-729.

“Commerce, law and erudite culture: The mechanics of Théodore Godefroy’s service to Cardinal Richelieu,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 68, 3 (July, 2007): 407-427.

“For a comparative history of early modern diplomacy: commerce and French and Swedish emissarial cultures during the early seventeenth century,” Scandinavian Journal of History. 31, 2 (June, 2006):  151-172.

“Swedish variations on Dutch commercial institutions, practices, and discourse, 1605-1655,” Scandinavian Studies, 77, 3 (Autumn, 2005): 331-346. "

COURSES TAUGHT

2012-2013
HIST 1350 Introduction to Western Civilization to 1500
HIST 1370 Introduction to Modern World History: 1500-1800
HIST 3110 France during the Renaissance and Religious Wars

2011-2012
HIST 2420 The Medieval World
HIST 3260 Commerce, Rights and Empire in European Thought, 500-2000
HIST 4960/7520 The Age of Enlightenment

2010-2011
HIST 2420 The Medieval World
HIST 3110 Topics in History 1: France, Louis XIV and the Enlightenment
HIST 4960/7510 The Central European Reformation, 256-c.1650 

2009-10
HIST 2420 The Medieval World
HIST 3110 (T1) Topics in History I: Renaissance and Baroque France
HIST 3110 (T2) Topics in History I: Commerce, Rights & Empire in European History & Thought, c. 500-2000

2008-09
HIST 2420 Medieval World
HIST 3110 Topics in History I: Commerce, Rights and Empire in European History & Thought, c. 500-2000