Robin Briggs is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford where he has worked since his election as Prize Fellow in 1964. He was educated at Felsted School and Balliol College, Oxford and he is the author of "The Scientific Revolution of the Seventeenth Century" (1970), "Early Modern France" (2nd Edition 1998), and "Communities of Belief: Cultural and Social Tensions in Early Modern France" (1989).