David van der Linden

Dr. David van der Linden  is Assistant Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Groningen. His research focuses on religious conflict, peacebuilding, and memory in the early modern world. He is PI of the five-year research project (funded by the Dutch Research Council) Building Peace: Transitional Justice in Early Modern France. This project explores the mechanisms used by French authorities and local citizens to restore peace after four decades of civil war, and aims to contribute to the recent debates on the efficacy of transitional justice. He is the author of Remembering the Wars of Religion: Conflict and Coexistence in Early Modern France (Oxford, 2026), which explores how Catholics and Protestants in seventeenth-century France remembered the religious wars, and how such memories could undermine religious coexistence in local communities.