Guy Rowlands is a British academic and historian specialising in the history of France. In 2002 he was the winner of the Gladstone Book Prize awarded annually by the Royal Historical Society.^[1] He serves as Secretary for the Society for the Study of French History^[2] and is Director of the Centre for French History and Culture at the University of St Andrews.^[3]

His research has mainly concerned seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, especially France's mobilisation for war between 1661 and 1783. He is best known for the book The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661 to 1701^[4] which analysed the growth of the army under Louis XIV and stressed the role of noble families in the organisation of the state.

Publications

• The Third Reign of Louis XIV, c.1682-1715, eds. Julia Prest and Guy Rowlands (Routledge, 2016).
• The Financial Decline of a Great Power: War, Influence, and Money in Louis XIV's France (2012)
• St Andrews Studies in French History and Culture (2010)
• The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661 to 1701 (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
• "The Ethos of Blood and Changing Values? Robe, Épée and the French Armies, 1661 to 1715" in Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 19 (1997)
• "Louis XIV, Aristocratic Power and the Elite Units of the French Army" in French History, 13 (1999)
• "Louis XIV, Vittorio Amedeo II and French Military Failure in Italy, 1689-1696" in English Historical Review, 115 (2000)
• "Louis XIV et la «stratégie de cabinet». Mythe et réalité" in Revue historique des armées, 222 (2001)
• "An Army in Exile: Louis XIV and the Irish Forces of James II in France, 1691-1698" in Royal Stuart Paper, 60 (2001)
• "The Monopolisation of Military Power in France, 1515-1715" in (eds) Ronald G. Asch, Wulf Eckart Voß and Martin Wrede, Frieden und Krieg in der Frühen Neuzeit (Munich, 2001)
• "La guerre et la cour: l’ascension sociale et politique de la famille Le Tellier, 1661-1701" in A. Tartié et al., Combattre, Gouverner, Ecrire. Etudes réunies en l'honneur de Jean Chagniot (Paris, 2003)
• "The Court and the Political Culture of the French Army under Louis XIV" in European History 1477-1715: Court, Culture, Power and Diplomacy, 1 (2004)
• "The King’s Two Arms: French Amphibious Warfare in the Mediterranean under Louis XIV, 1664 to 1697" in (eds) M. Fissel and D. Trim, Amphibious Warfare and European Expansion, 1000-1700: War, Commerce and State-Formation (2005)