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The Price of Peace:
Modernising the Ancien Régime?
Europe 1815-1848
Paris, 22-25 August 2016
University of Kent Paris, Reid Hall
4 rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris
The period 1815-1848 has acquired a number of awkward labels: the ‘Restoration,’ the ‘PostNapoleonic era,’ and in Germany Vörmarz.’ Most of these descriptions reveal a historical
impatience with an era that is squeezed uncomfortably between the Napoleonic Wars and the age
of Nationalism. There has been a scholarly impatience with the so-called Restoration and in
many historiographical traditions it has been depicted as an awkward interval. An époque that
needs to be bypassed in order to move onto more profound turning points and developments.
This trend has been counter-acted recently by new research across Europe that seeks to progress
beyond these outdated visions of the ‘Restoration.’ However, these new studies have tended to
be pursued in isolation within national academic contexts. This conference will try to bring
leading scholars from across Europe together to develop new comparative ways of understanding
the political, administrative, diplomatic, cultural changes and their interconnections between
1815-1848. It is a key ambition of this conference to establish a strong dialogue between scholars
of international relations and those who work from a national perspective.
Essentially this conference has the ambition of breaking down old myths and stereotypes about
the ‘Restoration’ in order to think more broadly and openly about the key transitions and issues.
After all, it should be remembered that the statesmen who emerged to govern Europe after
Waterloo had no limpid crystal ball with which to glimpse future. They struggled to synthesise
and master the discordant legacies of the ancien régime, the French Revolution and the
Napoleonic Empire. They had just survived an epic struggle to place Europe under a universal
and rational administrative and political system. On the contrary, the monarchs, ministers and
diplomats of the Restoration had the difficult task of managing political, administrative and
cultural diversity in a world which, thanks to 1789 and Napoleon, was far more interconnected
than it had been ever before. Many old & new diversities (and to a certain extent regional
particularism that was redolent of the ancien régime) confronted these newly constituted
regimes, both within their borders and externally, in the realm of international relations.
This conference will revolve around the provocative historiographical issue of whether the postNapoleonic order represented an attempt to reconcile the heritage of the ancien régime with a
deeply transformed world. The conference will also serve as a spring board for future workshops
and conferences on the ‘Restoration.’
The conference is bilingual (French and English). Les communications et échanges auront
lieu en français et en anglais.
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Monday 22 August
09:30-10:00 Registration
Introductory Session
10:00-10:15 Welcome from the Organisers and the University of Kent Paris
10:15-10:45 Stephen Bann (University of Bristol) ‘Opening Remarks’
10:45-11:00 Break
International Order after the Congress of Vienna - Session 1
11:00-11:30 Luigi Mascilli Migliorini (Università degli studi di Napoli L'Orientale), ‘Kissinger’s
Metternich, How to Study The Restoration’
11:30-12:00 John Bew (King’s College, London): ‘The development of Realpolitik in post
Napoleonic Europe’
12:00-12:30 Richard Langhorne (Rutgers - State University of New Jersey) ‘Managing MultiPolarity 1814-1830: the foundations of the Concert of Europe’
12:30-13:45 Lunch
Political Reform and Social Change after 1815
13:45-14:15 Emmanuel de Waresquiel (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) ‘Chute des
Empires et Restauration Monarchiques’
14:15-14:45 Joanna Innes (University of Oxford) ‘Re-imagining the social order in the post
Napoleonic World’
14:45:15:00 Break
International Order after the Congress of Vienna - Session 2
15:00-15:30 Stella Ghervas (University of Harvard) ‘Modernizing the Machinery of Peace? From a
Balance of Power to a Balance of Negotiation,’
15:30-16:00 Munro Price (University of Bradford),‘ “We will take back our Belgium,” French
Foreign Policy 1815-1830’
16:00-16:30 Elise Wirtschafter (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)‘Russia, the
Grand Alliance, and the War Scare of 1821-22’
16:30-16:45 Munro Price (University of Bradford) ‘Tribute to Thomas Munch Petersen 1948-2015’
Tuesday 23 August
Constitutions and Charters
10:00-10:30 Markus J. Prutsch (European Parliament) ‘Constitutional Monarchism in PostNapoleonic Europe’
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10:30-11:00 Philip Mansel (Institute of Historical Research, London) ‘Louis XVIII, the Charte and
Europe’
11:00-11:30 Morten Nordhagen Ottosen (Syddansk Universitet) ‘The Many Faces of Liberal
Constitutionalism in the Age of Reaction’
11:30-12:00 Georg Eckert (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) ‘Royal opposition against the Ancien
régime: The case of Württemberg’
12:00-13:15 Lunch
New Composite Monarchies
13:15-13:45 William Godsey (Austrian Academy of Sciences) ‘The Austrian Empire as Composite
Monarchy after 1815’
13:45-14:15 Ido de Haan (Universiteit Utrecht) ‘A monarchical regime based on republican
antecedents. The constitution of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands’
14:15-14:45 Enrico Genta Ternavasio (Università degli studi Torino, Italy) ‘Monarchia Sabauda
and the Restaurazione’
14:45-15:00 Break
Before and Beyond the Nation
15:00-15:30 Rasmus Glenthøj (Syddansk Universitet) ‘Pan-Scandinavism and the threshold
principle’
15:30-16:00 Bernard Rulof (Maastricht University) ‘French Monarchism’
16:00-16:30 Ivana Pederzani (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano) ‘Tullio Dandolo and
liberal-catholic culture in Italy after the Restoration,’
Wednesday 24 August
Monarchies after the Revolution and Napoleon
09:45-10:30 Heidi Mehrkens & Richard Meyer Forsting (University of St Andrews) ‘Heroic
Heirs. Monarchical Succession and the Role of the Military in Restoration Spain and France’
10:30-11:00 Jeroen van Zanten (Universiteit van Amsterdam), ‘Mirabeau and the revolutions of
1830 & 1848’
11:00-11:30 Bård Frydenlund (University of Oslo) ‘Southern influences on Nordic political culture
- Bernadotte as king of Norway and Sweden’
11:30-12:00 Gonzalo Butrón Prida (Universidad de Cádiz) ‘Spanish Restoration Revisited: Was a
moderate representative government possible in Spain?’
12:00-13:30 Lunch
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Historicising the Ancien Régime?
13:30-14:00 Bettina Frederking (IHMC-IHRF, CNRS/Université Paris 1), « L’Ancien
Régime dans la France de la Restauration - Aspects de l’utilisation d’une notion dans le débat
politique contemporain »
14:00-14:30 Matthijs Lok (Universiteit van Amsterdam) ‘The ambivalent memory of the Dutch
revolt and the construction of the Dutch Restoration regime’
14:30-14:45 Break
New Border New Identities
14:45-15:15 Roald Berg (Universitetet i Stavanger) ‘New borders, invented identities: Norwegian
officers during Danish, Swedish and corps identity construction processes, 1814-1830’
15:15-15:45 Marco Meriggi (University of Napoli Federico II) ‘The construction of the boundaries
in Restoration Italy, A comparative perspective’
15:45-16:15 Michael Rowe (King’s College, London), ‘From Cooperation to Confrontation:
Church-State Relations in the Prussian Rhineland, 1815-1840’
19:00-21:00 Conference Dinner for the participants
Thursday 25 August
Restoring/Renewing Europe
10:30-11:00 Gonzalo Butron Prida (Universidad de Cádiz) ‘Spanish Restoration Revisited: Was a
moderate representative government possible in Spain?’
11:00-11:30 Jaroslaw Czubaty (Uniwersytetu Warzawskiego) ‘Poles and their next “saviour,”
Alexander I and the Kingdom of Poland’
11:30-12:00 Marco Bellabarba (Università degli Studi di Trento) ‘Peace through legislation: law
codes and social control in Restoration Italy’
12:00-13:45 Lunch
Transnational Publics and Ideologies after Napoleon
13:45-14:15 Ruth Hemstad (National Library Norway) ‘Writing Scandinavianism, The public
sphere and the Scandinavianist movement’
14:15-14:45 Ute Planert (Universität Köln) ‘Napoleon as an icon of political liberalism in
Restoration Germany’
14:45-15:15 Mark Lawrence (University of Kent) ‘The Sieges of Bilbao and the international
appeal of Spain's First Carlist War'?
15:00-15:15 Break
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15:15-15:45 Michael Broers (University of Oxford) ‘Concluding Remarks’
15:45-17:00 Roundtable
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Organising Committee:
Prof. Michael Broers (University of Oxford), Dr. Ambrogio A. Caiani (Université of Kent),
Bettina Frederking (IHMC-IHRF, CNRS-Paris I), Prof. Gaynor Johnson (Université of Kent,
Kent), & Prof. Munro Price (University of Bradford).
Conference Website and Registration:
https://www.kent.ac.uk/history/events/conferences/restoration.html
There is no charge for invited speakers and panel chairs. For those wishing to attend this fourday conference there a £120 registration fee (this includes a light lunch over four days).
If you wish to attend the conference for less than four days, please contact Bettina Frederking
[email protected] in order to register.
Practical info:
The conference will take place in the Grande Salle of the University of Kent at Paris (4 rue de
Chevreuse, 75006 Paris). Please note, The University of Kent rents seminar and office space at
Reid Hall, an illustrious study centre. Reid Hall is owned and managed by Columbia University;
common space is shared with other eminent US institutions.
We wish to thank and acknowledge the assistance received from the University of Kent at Paris,
Faculty of Humanities Research Fund and the School of History Internationalisation Fund. We
are also exceedingly grateful to the British International History Group for their financial
support.
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