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Julie Hardwick

In Memoriam: Dr. Laurie M. Wood

September 22, 2023

Laurie M. Wood was one of the foremost early modern global historians of her generation and a remarkable friend and colleague. Her first book, Archipelago of Justice: Law in France’s Early Modern Empire, won the 2021 Boucher Prize from the Society of French Colonial History. The committee lauded her integrated framing of the Caribbean and […]

IHS Book Talk: Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789

February 3, 2021

The History Faculty New Book Series presents:Sex in an Old Regime City Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789 A conversation with JULIE HARDWICKJohn E. Green Regents Professor of History, and UT Distinguished Teaching ProfessorUniversity of Texas at Austinhttps://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jholwell and KARIN WULFProfessor of History, College of William & Mary, andDirector, Omohundro Institute of Early American […]

Dead Babies in Boxes: Dealing with the Consequences of Interrupted Reproduction

September 29, 2020

This article first appeared in Nursing Clio. The original can be accessed here. One morning in June 2019, two city workers in Lyon, France, pulled a plastic bag out of the river that runs through the city center and found it contained the body of a “late term fetus or a newborn baby thought to […]

Julie Hardwick on the Early Modern French Family

February 18, 2012

In the spring of 1691, Louis Thebeaudeau, a shoemaker in the French city of Nantes, was asleep in a small room off his workshop when a ghost in the shape of his wife, Marie Monnier, woke him up.

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