RESEARCH INTERESTS Early Modern Political Relations in Jülich, Hesse-Cassel (both in Germany) and Brittany (France). esp. in the period 1640-1660. History of Political Thought (Main focus: late 16th and 17th century). Legal history. (Main focus: late 16th and 17th century). Cultural history. (Main focus: late 16th and 17th century). History of ideas. (Main focus: late 16th and 17th century). Economic History (17th century). The Dutch Republic during the Golden Age. The Thirty Year’s War (Germany/ Europe). The Fronde (France). History of pre-modern societies in Europe: late medieval and early modern period. (Main focus: late 16th and 17th century). Fatherland rhetoric/ ‘nationalism’ in the Early Modern Period.