Gregory Hanlon is a French-trained behavioural historian who has taught early modern European history at the University of California at Berkeley and the Universite de Paris IV-Sorbonne. He teaches French and Italian history at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. In addition to article-length publications in Quaderni Storici, Past & Present, the Journal of Family History, the Journal of Social History, the Annales: Economies, Societes, Civilisations, the Annales du Midi, and the Revue de la Bibliotheque Nationale, Gregory Hanlon has published four books dealing with French and Italian history of the era.

Early Modern Italy, 1550-1800: Three seasons in European History (Palgrave, 2000; 462 pages & 20 maps, 4 plates; $19.95 US paperback) is a comprehensive, introductory survey of early modern Italy in all of its facets. Contents: Italy circa 1700: A Geographical Expression; Family & Sociability; Renaissance Origins of Modern Italy; From Communes to Principalities; Spanish Regimes in Italy; The Great City-Economies to 1620; Feeding the Cities; Traditional Catholicism and its Persistence; The Tridentine Church; The Rebirth of Rome; Bella Figura: the Baroque Era; Aristocracy; Italy & Islam in the Mediterranean; Fifty Years of War, 1610-1659; Economic Collapse; Rural Crisis, 1630-1740; Epidemics & Assistance; Philosophy & Science, 1550-1700; Venice; The Piedmontese Absolutist State; Italy as a Great Power Pawn, 1660-1760; Justice, Order and Social Control; The Italian Enlightenment; An Equivocal Recovery; Absolutist Reforms in Bourbon Italy; Habsburg Revolutions in Northern Italy. Translation: Storia dell'Italia moderna 1550-1800 (Mulino, 2002).

The Twilight of a Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats and European Conflicts, 1560-1800 (Taylor & Francis, and Holmes & Meier, 1998; 371 pages & 45 maps, 13 graphs; $25.95 US paperback) studies the gradual withdrawal of Italian elites from military affairs just as most other European aristocracies rallied to the armies of their respective sovereigns, and sketches the consequences of this process for Italian history. Contents: Knights & Corsairs in the Mediterranean; Italy in the age of Habsburg Hegemony, 1560-1620; The Forty Years War, 1618-1659; The Venetian Epic, 1600-1718; The Spanish Crisis and the Rise of Austria, 1660-1710; Profiles & Careers; The Piedmontese Exception; Great Powers and Italian Demilitarization, 1700-1814; The Military Imagination. Note: This book received the Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian Historical Studies in 1998.

Confession and Community in Seventeenth-century France: Catholic and Protestant Coexistence in Aquitaine (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993; 312 pages & 20 maps and graphs; $45.00 US hardcover) studies practical religious toleration in confessionally mixed communities typical of southern France, through a close nominative study of a single town. By demonstrating the integration of the two groups, it explains how the Protestant minority was assimilated into extinction after several generations. Contents; Was Layrac Typical?; The Institutional Community; Conflict & Arbitration; Sociability & Community; Calvinism from Established Church to Sect; Folk Devotion and the Counter-Reformation; The Nature of Confessional Ambiguity; Religious Identity and Competing Reference Groups; European Dimensions of Confessional Coexistence. Note: This book received the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History in 1992, and was runner-up (after an initial tie) for the book award of the American Huguenot Society in 1994.

L'Univers des gens de bien: Culture et comportements des elites urbaines en Agenais-Condomois au XVIIe siecle (Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 1989; 387 pages & 30 maps and graphs; FF 180 paperback) examines the behaviour of social elites in small-town Aquitaine, blending an anthropological approach with the study of the social roots of learned culture. Contents: Pays et villes de l'Agenais et du Condomois au XVIIe siecle; Complexite et divisions de l'elite urbaine; La sociabilite traditionnelle; Les structures du conflit; Famille et sexualite: La predominance masculine; Les mediateurs pedagogiques; le clerge de ce monde; Saintete et societe: le clerge regulier; Les traditions populaires face au surnaturel; Les Huguenots; La conquete de l'unite religieuse; La formation de l'elite; Traditions savantes et la modernite face a l'univers sacre; Confluences. Note: The dissertation from which this book was drawn was awarded the Prix Tonnadre of the Academie des Sciences, Lettres et Arts d'Agen in 1983.