
E-mail - jer9@st-andrews.ac.uk
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My teaching ranges broadly across early modern British history. This was an era of political turmoil from the advent of the Tudor dynasty in 1485, the politics of royal minority and queenship, through to the dynastic union of the Three Kingdoms of the seventeenth century, their wars of the 1640s and the Revolution of 1688-9. It was also an age of religious upheaval: the downfall of the late medieval church, the Tudor Reformations and their fragmentation into religious diversity and early arguments for religious toleration in the seventeenth century. I have particular interests in the political, religious, and intellectual history of the period, both British and European. Undergraduate or postgraduate students interested in working on religion and monarchy in England from c.1500 to c.1700 are welcome to contact me.
My research reflects these interests in the political and religious ideas of early modern Britain, in particular the ideas and practices of Tudor and Stuart monarchy. I also work on the Church of England during the ‘Long Reformation’ from the 1530s to c.1700. My recent book explored the relationship between the monarchy and the Church of England in the later seventeenth century; my current project is a study of ideas of political counsel and concepts of kingship.
Godly Kingship in Restoration England: The Politics of the Royal Supremacy, 1660-1688 (Cambridge University Press: Studies in Early Modern British History, 2011) link
‘John Locke, ‘Matters Indifferent’, and the Restoration of the Church of England’, Historical Journal, 48 (2005), pp. 601-21
‘Royal Ecclesiastical Supremacy and the Restoration Church’, Historical Research, 80 (2007), pp. 324-45
‘Robert Brady’s Intellectual History and Royalist Antipopery in Restoration England’, English Historical Review, 122 (2007), pp. 1287-1317
‘Hobbes among the Heretics?’ (Review article), Historical Journal, 52 (2009), pp. 493-511
‘The Ecclesiastical Polity of Samuel Parker’, The Seventeenth Century, 25 (2010), pp. 350-75
‘Kingship and Counsel in Early Modern England’, Historical Journal, 54 (2011), pp. 47-71
‘“By law established”: The Church of England and the Royal Supremacy’, in Grant Tapsell, ed., The Later Stuart Church, 1660-1714 (publication due 2012)
MO3045: The Politics of Monarchy in Tudor and Stuart England, 1500-1685
MO2008: Scotland, Britain, and Empire, c.1500-2000
HI2001: History as a Discipline: Development and key concepts
M.Litt. in Early Modern History