Emma Claussen

Lecturer in French, University of Cambridge

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Emma Claussen is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow and an affiliated lecturer in French at the University of Cambridge. Her first book is Politics and ‘Politiques’ in Sixteenth-Century France: A Conceptual History (forthcoming, July 2021) and she is working on her next, ‘What Makes Life Worth Living in Early Modern France?’

Written by Emma Claussen

Painting of a man in black clothing and cap writing in a book with a quill, set against a dark blue background.
CONFLICT AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION

The politician is the malformed monster of our coexistence

The French civil wars produced a novel type: the politician, represented as a monstrous amalgam of conflict and coexistence

by Emma Claussen