Philip Mansel

Philip Mansel (born 1951) is a British historian and the author of a number of books about revolutionary and post-revolutionary France and the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire. He was born in London in 1951 and educated at Eton College, Balliol College, Oxford, and University College London.^[1]

Career

Mansel's first book, Louis XVIII, was published in 1981 and this - together with subsequent works such as Paris Between Empires 1814-1852 (2001) - established him on both sides of the Channel as an authority on the later French monarchy. Six of his books have been translated into French.

Altogether Mansel has published nine books of history and biography, mainly relating either to France or to his other main area of interest, the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East: Sultans in Splendour was published in 1988 and Constantinople: City of the World's Desire 1453-1924 in 1995.

In 1995, Mansel was a co-founder of the Society for Court Studies, together with David Starkey, Robert Oresko and Simon Thurley, and he is the editor of the Society's journal, The Court Historian.^[2] He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Institute of Historical Research (University of London), and the Royal Asiatic Society, and a member of the Conseil Scientifique of the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles.^[3]

Books

• Louis XVIII (London, Blond and Briggs, 1981)
• Pillars of Monarchy: An Outline of the Political and Social History of Royal Guards, 1400-1984 (New York, Quartet Books, 1984)
• The Eagle in Splendour: Napoleon I and His Court (London, George Philip, 1987)
• The Court of France: 1789-1830 (New York, Cambridge University Press, 1988)
• Sultans in Splendour: The Last Years of the Ottoman World (New York, Vendome, 1989)
• Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 (New York, St. Martin's, 1995)^[4]
• The French Émigrés in Europe and the Struggle against Revolution: 1789-1814 (New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999) (Editor, with Kirsty Carpenter)
• Paris Between Empires, 1814-1852 (London, John Murray, 2001)
• Prince of Europe: The Life of Charles-Joseph De Ligne, 1735-1814 (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003)
• Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2005)^[5]
• Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean (London, John Murray, 2010)

References

1. ^ "Philip Mansel - writes about Monarchs And Courts, Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century in France". http://www.philipmansel.com. Retrieved 2010-02-03. 
2. ^ "The Society for Court Studies". http://www.courtstudies.org. Retrieved 2010-02-03. 
3. ^ "Philip Mansel - Senior Fellow of the IHR | Institute of Historical Research". http://www.history.ac.uk/about/philip-mansel. Retrieved 2010-02-03. 
4. ^ John ASH, "Gateway to Byzantium". Review of Philip Mansel's Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 in The Washington Post of February 2, 1997.
5. ^ Christina LARSON, "When Real Men Wore Heels". Review of Philip Mansel's Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II in The Washington Monthly, July/August 2005.

999999==External links==

• Official website