Treason: A Global History

AHRC-Network Principle Investigators Mark Cornwall & André Krischer

Bibliography

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Key publications by our members

Sophie Thérèse Ambler

  • Sophie Thérèse Ambler, Bishops in the Political Community of England, 1213-1272 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
  • Sophie Thérèse Ambler, The Song of Simon de Montfort: England’s First Revolutionary and the Death of Chivalry (London: Picador, 2019).
  • Sophie Thérèse Ambler, “The Common Law and Civil War in Fourteenth-Century England,” The Journal of Legal History (Routledge, May 2024), 45: 2, 125–154.
  • Sophie Thérèse Ambler, “The Dark Trophies of The Battle of Evesham, the Northumbrian Cult of Simon de Montfort and the War of the Welsh Marches (1264–1265)”, English Historical Review (30 June 2024),139: 33-59.

Chloe Bordewich

  • Chloe Bordewich, “Diaries of an Ottoman Spymaster? Treason, Slander, and the Afterlife of Memoir in Empire’s Long Shadow,” Jerusalem Quarterly (2019), 78, 112–134.

Mark Cornwall

  • Mark Cornwall, “Traitors and the meaning of treason in Austria-Hungary’s Great War,” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (December 2015), 25, 113–134.
  • Mark Cornwall, “Loyalty and treason in late Habsburg Croatia,” in Exploring Loyalty, eds. Jana Osterkamp and Martin Schulze Wessel (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017), 97–121.
  • Mark Cornwall, “Treason in an Era of Regime Change,” Austrian History Yearbook (April 2019), 50, 124–149.
  • Mark Cornwall, A Typology of Traitors in Late Nineteenth Century Austria-Hungary (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2020).

Cynthia Couhade-Beyneix

  • Cynthia Couhade-Beyneix, “L’évocation de la trahison dans l’iconographie monétaire à la fin de la République romaine et au début du règne d’Auguste.” (2005).
  • Cynthia Couhade-Beyneix, “La trahison de Tarpéia et la fondation de Rome,” in La trahison de l’adultère au crime politique, eds. Sébastien Schehr and Claude Javeau (Paris: Berg international, 2010), 17–26.
  • Cynthia Couhade-Beyneix, “La trahison dans les mentalités tardo-républicaines,” in Trahison et traîtres dans l’Antiquité, eds. A. Queyrel Bottineau, J.-C. Couvenhes, and A. Vigourt (Paris: De Boccard, 2012), 173–187.
  • Cynthia Couhade-Beyneix, “Traîtres et trahisons dans la Rome antique. De la fin de la République au début de l’Empire” in L’Atelier du Centre de recherches historiques (2012, mis en ligne le 22 février 2013): http://acrh.revues.org/5015 ; DOI: 10.4000/acrh.5015. 
  • Cynthia Couhade-Beyneix, “La confiscation des biens dans le cadre de la procédure de maiestate,” in Spolier et confisquer dans les mondes grec et romain, eds. F. Delrieux and M.-Cl. Ferriès (Chambéry: Université de Savoie, 2013), 163–177.
  • Cynthia Couhade-Beyneix, “Réflexions sur la trahison et les proditores sous la République romaine,” Droit et cultures. Revue internationale interdisciplinaire (L’Harmattan, 2017), 74: 2, 15–35.

Beatrice de Graaf

  • Beatrice de Graaf, Fighting Terror after Napoleon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).
  • Beatrice de Graaf, Ido de Haan, and Brian Vick, eds, Securing Europe after Napoleon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).
  • Beatrice de Graaf, The radical redemption model (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2025).

Bernadette Descharmes

  • Bernadette Descharmes, “Philia und Prodosia – Grenzen der Freundschaft in den Texten der attischen Tragödie oder Ein Versuch über den Verrat,” in Varieties of friendship: interdisciplinary perspectives on social relationships (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011), 377–395.

Sebastian Gehrig

  • Sebastian Gehrig, “Friend or Foe? The People’s Republic of China in West German Cold War Politics,” in Germany and China: Transnational Encounters since the Eighteenth Century, eds. David Crowe and Miyand Cho (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 233–248.
  • Sebastian Gehrig, Legal Entanglements Law, Rights and the Battle for Legitimacy in Divided Germany, 1945-1989 (Oxford; New York: Berghahn Books, 2021).
  • Sebastian Gehrig, “Informal Cold War Envoys: West German and East German cultural diplomacy in East Asia,” Journal of Cold War Studies (MIT Press, December 2022), 24: 4, 112–156.
  • Sebastian Gehrig, “The difficulty of leaving: freedom of movement and the national security state in Cold War West Germany,” Journal of Modern European History (SAGE Publications, 2023), 21: 1, 133–152.
  • Sebastian Gehrig, “New histories of law and rights in twentieth-century Germany,” Contemporary European History (March 2023), 33: 2, 796–807.

Daniel Gosling

  • The National Archives, ed, A History of Treason (London: John Blake Publishing, 2022).

André Krischer

  • Tilman Haug and André Krischer, eds, Höllische Ingenieure (München: UVK Verlag, 2021).
  • André Krischer, “Noble Honour and the Force of Law,” in What Makes the Nobility Noble? Comparative Perspectives from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century, eds. Jörn Leonhard and Christian Wieland (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011), 67–89.
  • André Krischer, Die Macht des Verfahrens (Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2017).
  • André Krischer, ed, Verräter (Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2019).
  • André Krischer, “Über die Grenzen des Erlaubten,” in Systemtheorie und antike Gesellschaft, ed. Aloys Winterling (De Gruyter, September 2024), 191–214.

Carlton F. W. Larson

  • Carlton F. W. Larson, The Trials of Allegiance (New York, NY: Oxford University Press Inc, 2019).
  • Carlton F. W. Larson, On Treason (New York City: Ecco, 2020).

Emma Macleod

  • Michael T. Davis, Emma Macleod, and Gordon Pentland, eds, Political trials in an age of revolutions (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
  • Martin Fitzpatrick, Emma Macleod, Anthony Page, Martin Fitzpatrick, Emma Macleod, and Anthony Page, eds, The Wodrow-Kenrick Correspondence 1750-1810 (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, August 2020).
  • Martin Fitzpatrick, Emma Macleod, Anthony Page, Martin Fitzpatrick, Emma Macleod, and Anthony Page, eds, The Wodrow-Kenrick Correspondence 1750-1810 (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, February 2025).
  • Emma Macleod, British visions of America, 1775 – 1820 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013).
  • Emma Vincent Macleod, A War of Ideas (London: Routledge, September 2018).

Sabrina Rospert

  • Sabrina Rospert, “Gescheiterte Rebellen und Verschwörer?,” in Politisches Scheitern: Ein ambivalentes Phänomen im Europa der Vormoderne (11.-18. Jahrhundert), eds. Marie-Astrid Hugel, Roberto Berardinelli, and Pauline Spychala (Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023), 43–64.
  • Sabrina Rospert, Rebellion und Herrschertreue. Eine Kommunikationsgeschichte des Aufstands im königlichen Ungarn (1670-1676) (tbp 2025).

Bee Yun

  • Jörg Feuchter, Friedhelm Hoffmann, and Bee Yun, eds, Cultural Transfers in Dispute (Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus Verlag, 2011).
  • Bee Yun, Wege zu Machiavelli (Wien; Köln; Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2021).