Tom Hamilton is Associate Professor in Early Modern European History at Durham University. He works on the history of the French Wars of Religion and early modern criminal justice. His research has been awarded the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize of the Society for Sixteenth Century Studies, and shortlisted for the R. Gapper Book Prize of the Society for French Studies. Previously he has studied and taught at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and held visiting positions at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main, and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris.