King's College London - Homepage

Anne Goldgar is a Reader in Early Modern European History, and has taught in the Department since 1993. Prior to this she was a Research Fellow at Clare Hall Cambridge, an assistant professor of history and Art and Sciences Faculty Fellow at New York University and was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard. Anne is a graduate of Princeton and completed both her A.M. and PhD at Harvard.

• Cultural history and Social history in Early Modern Europe

Anne Goldgar specialises in seventeenth and eighteenth century European cultural and social history, especially of the Netherlands and of Francophone culture across Europe. She is also interested in print culture, the culture of collecting, and the interaction of society, art and science.  Her latest book is about the ways in which tulipmania reflected deep anxieties about the transformation of Dutch society in the Golden Age and is entitled Tulipmania: Money, Honor and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age (University of Chicago Press, 2007).

• Anne Goldgar (2008) 'Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa, Tulips, and Seventeenth-Century Collecting', in The Gentleman, the Virtuoso, the Inquirer: Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa and the Art of Collecting in Early Modern Spain pp. 194-218 [Chapter]
• Anne Goldgar (2007) 'L’Europe savante et ses espaces au XVIIIe siècle', in Les Lieux de Savoir I (Espaces et Communautés) pp. 964-988 [Chapter]
• Anne Goldgar (2007) 'Poelenbusch's Garden: Art, Flowers, Networks, and Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Holland', in In His Milieu: Essays on Netherlandish Art in Memory of John Michael Montias  pp. 183-192 [Chapter]
• Anne Goldgar (2007) Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age Chicago: University of Chicago Press 
  [Authored Book in print]
• Anne Goldgar, Robert I Frost (2004) Institutional culture in early modern society Leiden ; Boston: Brill [Authored Book in print]
• Anne Goldgar (2004) 'Kunst und Natur-Sammellust und Tulpenhandel in den Niederlanden', in Tulpomanie: die tulpe in der kunst de 16. und 17. jahrhunderts pp. ?-? [Chapter]
• A Goldgar (2003)  'Calvet's web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in eighteenth-century France' TLS: The Times literary supplement (5205), pp. 29-30.
  [Book Review (Print)]
• A Goldgar (2003)  'Peiresc's Europe: Learning and virtue in the seventeenth century' JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY, 75 (1), pp. 132-134.
  [Book Review (Print)]
• Anne Goldgar (2002)  'De Tulpomanie, een Haarlemse gekte' Kennemer Kroniek, 6 (21), pp. 7-12. [Article in print Journal]
• Anne Goldgar (2002) 'Nature as Art: the case of the tulip', in Merchants and Marvels: commerce, science, and art in Early Modern Europe pp. 324-346 [Chapter]
• Anne Goldgar (2001) 'Singing in a Strange Land: the republic of letters and the mentalité of exile', in The European Republic of Letters in the Age of Confessionalism pp. 105-126 [Chapter]
• A Goldgar (2000)  'The British Museum and the virtual representation of culture in the eighteenth century' ALBION, 32 (2), pp. 195-231.
  [Article in print Journal]
• Anne Goldgar (1995) Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680-1750 Yale University Press [Authored Book in print]

Undergraduate

• 5AAH2004 Themes in Early Modern Cultural History     
• 4AAH1004 Power, Culture & Belief in Europe 1500-1800     

Postgraduate

• 7AAH2005 Ritual in Early Modern Society
• 7AAH2007 Paris & Amsterdam in the Seventeenth Century