Philip Mansel
Philip Mansel (born 1951) is a British historian of courts and cities, and the author of a number of books about the history of France and the
Career
Philip Mansel's first book, Louis XVIII, was published in 1981 and this – together with subsequent works such as
Sultans in Splendour, with over 100 photographs on monarchs of the Middle East before 1945 was published in 1988,
In 2016, Mansel's book Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City was released.[4] The book features the author's history of the city in Part 1, as well as 15 primary source accounts in Part 2, collected from British and French consuls, merchants, scientists, and travelers to Aleppo over the past 400 years.[5][6] A revised and updated paperback edition was published in 2018.[7]
In 1995, Mansel was a co-founder of the
He is a Fellow of the
Mansel was awarded the London Library Life in Literature prize in 2012.[10]
Over the past 30 years Mansel has contributed reviews and articles to a wide range of newspapers and journals, including History Today, The English Historical Review, The International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and Apollo. Currently he writes for The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement and Cornucopia.
Mansel has lectured all over the world – including the United States, France, Germany, Italy and Turkey – and has made a number of appearances on radio and television, including in the two-part Channel 4 documentary Harem and in Versailles (BBC2, 2012). He has been interviewed on French, Belgian, Turkish and Lebanese television.
Books
- Louis XVIII (London, Blond and Briggs, 1981)
- Pillars of Monarchy: An Outline of the Political and Social History of Royal Guards, 1400–1984 (New York, Quartet Books, 1984)
- The Eagle in Splendour: Napoleon I and His Court (London, George Philip, 1987 - new edition, IBTauris, 2015) [1]
- The Court of France: 1789–1830 (New York, Cambridge University Press, 1988) [2]
- Sultans in Splendour: The Last Years of the Ottoman World (New York, Vendome, 1989)
- Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453–1924 (New York, St. Martin's, 1995)
- The French Émigrés in Europe and the Struggle against Revolution: 1789–1814 (New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999) (Editor, with Kirsty Carpenter)
- Paris Between Empires, 1814–1852 (London, John Murray, 2001) [11]
- Prince of Europe: the Life of Charles-Joseph de Ligne, 1735–1814 (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003) [12]
- Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2005) [13]
- Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean (London, John Murray, 2010) [14]
- Monarchy and Exile: The Politics of Legitimacy from Marie de Médicis to Wilhelm II (London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) (Editor, with Torsten Riotte) [3]
- Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City (London, I.B.Tauris, 2016)
- King of the World: the Life of Louis XIV (Penguin, 2019) [4]
The Levantine Heritage Foundation
Philip Mansel is a trustee of the Levantine Heritage Foundation.
Kimmeridge Project
Philip Mansel is actively involved in the Kimmeridge Project, whose objective is to provide a secure and permanent home for the scientifically valuable Etches Fossil Collection, in a world class facility in Kimmeridge. The resulting Jurassic Marine Life Centre will open up access to this important educational resource and provide the village of Kimmeridge with a centre for the local community.
In 1995 Mansel started a campaign to save
References
- ^ "Philip Mansel – writes about Monarchs And Courts, Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century in France". Retrieved 3 February 2010.
- ^ "Turkish delights". The Independent. 4 November 1995. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ^ "Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel: review". The Telegraph. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ^ I.B.Tauris. "Aleppo The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City". Shorthand. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ^ Elif Shafak (17 June 2016). "Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City', by Philip Mansel". www.ft.com. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ^ "The rise and fall of Aleppo, Syria's great merchant city". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- OCLC 1126543139.
- ^ "The Society for Court Studies". Retrieved 3 February 2010.
- ^ "Philip Mansel – Senior Fellow of the IHR | Institute of Historical Research". Retrieved 3 February 2010.
- ^ "Historian Philip Mansel Wins 2012 London Library Life In Literature Award Supported By Heywood Hill - News". Heywood Hill. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ^ Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 27 April 2003
- ^ Discreet Charms of a Priapic Adventurer, Tim Blanning, Times Literary Supplement, 13 June 2003
- ^ The Emperor's Real Clothes Roy Strong, The Spectator, 6 August 2005
- ^ Winds of Cosmopolitanism - Making Sense of the Past, The Economist, 9 December 2010