Thomas MunckThomas Munck is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Glasgow where his research focuses on comparative European social, cultural and political history. A current member of a research group on Cultural Translation based in Grmany, he is the recipient of research grants from the Carnegie Trust and British Academy, and the author of Seventeenth-Century Europe: State, Conflict and Social Order in Europe, 1598–1700 (2005). Read More Read Less