Visiting Fellow Harvard University (1987 88), recipient Bennigsen Foerder Prize (1992), Heisenberg Research Fellow (1996 2000), Member Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2002), holder Chaire Dupron (Sorbonne, Paris, 2009), Member Academia Europaea (since 2012); author of seven monographs and editor of ten volumes, among which Self-Defence and Religious Strife in Early Modern Europe: England and Germany, 1530 1680 (2002); (ed.) Murder and Monarchy: Regicide in European History, 1300 1800 (2004); (ed.) Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Subject: Politics, Law, Society, History and Religi...