Early Modern European History; History of France; Intellectual History; Political History
World Civilizations I
The Ancient Regime
European Intellectual History
Graduate seminars on Early Modern Europe and on European Cultural History
France; social and cultural history of early modern Europe
Historians and their days: historical knowledge in times of crisis
The Formation of a Provincial Nobility: The Magistrates of the Parlement of Rouen, 1499-1610 (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1980)
Pont-St-Pierre, 1398-1789: Lordship, Community, and Capitalism in Early Modern France (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1987)
Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture: France, 1570-1715 (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1993)
The European Nobility, 1400-1800 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996)
(editor-in-chief), Europe 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, 6 vols. (New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004)
Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970 (University Park, Penn State University Press, 2006)
Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France: The Rohan Family, 1550-1715 (University Park, Penn State University Press, 2015)