Stuart Carroll is professor of early modern history at the University of York.^[1] He won 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).^[2]

Carroll did his BA at the University of Bristol and PhD at the University of London.

Selected publications

• 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.