{"id":52,"date":"2026-01-29T19:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ejmpeas-conference-2026\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2026-02-05T00:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:17:27","slug":"professor-andrew-monnickendham","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ejmpeas-conference-2026\/keynotes\/professor-andrew-monnickendham\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Andrew Monnickendam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Andrew Monnickendam is Emeritus Professor at the Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona. His research concentrates on several interconnected areas. The first is the early historical novel, specifically the fiction published in Scotland in the early decades of the nineteenth century, with a particular focus on Walter Scott and the Waverley novels. From that point of departure, he has researched extensively on a similar but often underestimated genre, the National Tale. This led him to examine the work of Christian Isobel Johnstone, a contemporary of Scott who also wrote historical fiction\u2014most notably the four-volume Clan-Albin<\/em> (1815)\u2014from a slightly different angle: a more rigorous approach to Highland life, an exploration of conflict in a broader European context, and a more overtly pacifist perspective. He prepared the first modern edition of Johnstone\u2019s novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because historical fiction is deeply concerned with national identity and the processes of nation-building (or nation-destruction)\u2014and because wars and their outcomes often decide the fate of the state\u2014Professor Monnickendam has also turned his attention to more recent accounts of conflict and to the ways in which conflict extends into periods of peace and into wider culture, as Clausewitz famously anticipated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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