AVAILABLE ON THIS SITE
The full text of eight articles or lectures by Philip Mansel can be read on this site. Simply click on the title below.
Lord Stuart de Rothesay: The Ambassador as Boulevardier
Lesley Blanch (1904-2007)
Thomas Hope and the Neoclassical Revolution
Paris, Court City of the Nineteenth Century
Brussels, London, Paris: The Prequel
The Last Court Painter: Fausto Zonaro and Abdulhamid II
Paris 1814-1870: Portrait of a World City
Byron and the Ottoman Empire
FORTHCOMING LECTURES
For a list of forthcoming lectures by Philip Mansel, click on the Speaking Engagements button in the menu at the top of the page.
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
‘From the Exile to the Throne: The Europeanisation of Louis XVIII’, in Monarchy and Exile: The Politics of Legitimacy from Marie de Medicis to Wilhelm II (ed. Philip Mansel and Torsten Riotte, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), ISBN 978-0230249059.
‘Un adversaire de longue haleine: Louis XVIII et la maison de Bourbon en 1810’ in 1810: le tournant de l’Empire (ed. Thierry Lentz, Nouveau Monde editions, 2010), ISBN-13 978-2-84736-526-9, pp. 163-178.
‘Paris in the Time of Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann’ in The Great Cities in History (ed. John Julius Norwich, Thames and Hudson, 2009), ISBN 978-0500251546.
Introduction to Three Camels to Smyrna: Times of War and Peace in Turkey, Persia, India, Afghanistan & Nepal 1907-1986 by Antony Wynn (Hali Publications, 2008), ISBN 978-1898113676, pp. 9-11
Introduction to Lord Stuart de Rothesay by Robert Franklin (Book Guild Publishing, 2008), ISBN 978-1846242144, pp. xi-xx
Introduction to Three Kings in Baghdad: The Tragedy of Iraq's Monarchy by Gerald de Gaury (I.B. Tauris, 2008), ISBN 978-1845115357, pp. 1-5
Introduction to A Girl in Paris: A Persian Encounter with the West by Shusha Guppy (Tauris Parke, 2007), ISBN 978-1845113803, pp. xiii-xvi
‘Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century’ in Historic Paris Walks, edited by Leo Hollis, Cadogan Guides (2006), ISBN 1860113451, pp. 122-134
‘Brussels, London, Paris: The Prequel’, History Today (May 2006)
‘The Last Caliph and his Daughter’ in Meetings with Remarkable Muslims, edited by Barnaby Rogerson, Eland Books (2005), ISBN 090787164X, pp. 290-7
‘The French Renaissance in Search of the Ottoman Empire’ in Re-Orienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East, edited by Gerald Maclean, Palgrave Macmillan (2005), ISBN 1403992339, pp. 96-107
Introduction to Pierre Loti: Travels with the Legendary Romantic by Lesley Blanch, I.B. Tauris (2004), ISBN 1850434298, pp. 5-8
‘Istanbul: Europe’s Muslim Capital’, History Today, Vol. 53(6) (June 2003), pp 20-27
‘The Jewel in the Crown of the Padishah’, introduction to Beirut & the Sultan: 200 photographs from the albums of Abdul Hamid, Éditions Terre du Liban, Beirut (December 2002), pp 15-17
‘The Tableau general de l’empire Othoman as symbol of the Franco-Ottoman, Franco-Swedish, and Swedish-Ottoman alliances’, in The Torch of the Empire: Ignatius Mouradgia d’Ohsson and The tableau general of the Ottoman Empire in the 18th century, Istanbul, Yapi Kredi (November 2002), pp 77-83
Introduction to Turkish Letters by Ogier de Busbecq, Edward Foster (translator), Sickle Moon (January 2001), ISBN 1900209055, pp. ix-xv
‘The Grand Tour in the Ottoman Empire, 1699-1826’, Unfolding the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East, edited by Paul and Janet Starkey, Ithaca Press (2001), pp 41-64
‘From Coblenz to Hartwell: the Émigré Government and the European Powers, 1791-1814’, in The French Émigrés in Europe and the Struggle against Revolution, 1789-1814, Macmillan Press (U.K.) (1999), St Martin’s Press (U.S.) (1999), pp 1-27
‘Le Prince de Ligne et les Émigrés français 1789-1814’, Nouvelles Annales Prince de Ligne, Vol. X, Hayez (1996), pp 9-21
‘Le Prince de Ligne, candidat à l’indigénat hongrois. Une autobiographie inédite’, Nouvelles Annales Prince de Ligne, Vol. VII, Hayez (1992), pp 7-30
‘The Riddle of Asmahan’, Grand Street (Winter 1990), pp 76-93
‘Wellington and the French Restoration’, The International History Review, Vol. XI, No. 1 (February 1989), pp 76-83
'Selling the Empire', Saudi Aramco World (January / February 1989), pp. 34-9
'The Swedish Connection', Saudi Aramco World (January / February 1987), pp. 24-7
‘The Influence of the later Stuarts and their supporters on French royalism 1789-1840’, Royal Stuart Papers, Vol. XXI, The Royal Stuart Society (1983), pp 1-10
‘How Forgotten were the Bourbons in France between 1812 and 1814?’, European Studies Review, Vol. 13, No. 1 (January 1983), pp 13-37
‘Monarchy, Uniform and the Rise of the Frac’, Past & Present, No. 96 (August 1982), pp 103-132
CATALOGUES
‘Thomas Hope and the Neoclassical Revolution’ in the catalogue (Yale University Press, 2007) for the 2008 exhibition Thomas Hope: Regency Genius at the Victorian and Albert Museum, London and the Bard Center, New York
Fausto Zonaro - From the Venice Lagoon to the Shores of the Bosphorus: An Italian Painter at the Court of the Sultan
Catalogue in Italian and English for the exhibition at the Vittoriano, Rome, 25 November to 20 December 2004 (includes Philip Mansel's article 'The Last Court Painter: Fausto Zonaro and Abdulhamid II', pp. 33-47), ISBN 9750808878
At the Sublime Porte: European Ambassadors to the Ottoman Empire 1550-1800
Catalogue for the exhibition at Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, London, May to June1988 (includes essays by Philip Mansel), London (1988), ISBN 0951249320
Franz Xaver Winterhalter and the Courts of Europe 1830-1870
Catalogue for the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, October 1987 to January 1988, and the Petit Palais, Paris, February to May 1988 (contains biographical entries by Philip Mansel), London (1987), ISBN 0904017842 |