Stephen Wilson (historian)

Stephen Wilson (born 1941[1]) is an English historian. He was Reader in European History at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. His 1995 book Feuding, Conflict and Banditry in Nineteenth-Century Corsica was awarded the Prix du Livre Corse in 1996.[2][3][4]

Wilson earned his doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1967 for his thesis The Historians of the Action Française". He authored articles in history, historiography and religion.[1]

Books
  • (with B.C. Southam) The Magical Universe: Everyday Ritual and Magic in Pre-Modern Europe, First edition: Hambledon and London, 2000, ISBN 1852852518
  • The Means Of Naming: A Social and Cultural History of Naming in Western Europe First edition: 1998, ISBN 1857282450 - The book gives a background of European naming, with major attention to pre-1500s period.[5]
  • Feuding, Conflict and Banditry in Nineteenth-Century Corsica, Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0521522641
    • (French language) Vendetta et banditisme en Corse au dix-neuvième siècle, 1995,[6] 2002
  • Ideology and Experience: Antisemitism in France at the Time of the Dreyfus Affair, 2007, ISBN 1904113591 (first edition: 1982 by Rutherford, London and Toronto)[1]—The 1982 book was influential for the recognition of the effect of the undercurrent of antisemitism in French society on the Dreyfus Affair among the historians.[7]

References
  1. Saints and Their Cults: Studies in Religious Sociology, Folklore and History, Notes on contributors, p. xii
  2. "Stephen Wilson", a profile at Bloomsbury Publishing
  3. "Livres de l'auteur Wilson Stephen"
  4. "Vendetta et banditisme en Corse au dix-neuvième siècle" at Albiana Publishers
  5. Amy M. Hasfjord, "New Influences on Naming Patterns in Victorian Britain", Illinois State University, Theses and Dissertations. Paper 508, 2016, p.48
  6. , p.22
  7. Paula E. Hyman, "New Perspectives on the Dreyfus Affair." Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques (2005): 335-349. online
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