Dr Matthew McLean

Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2924

Email

mam5@st-andrews.ac.uk

Location

St John's House

Office hours

MO1007 Thursday 1pm to 2pm, MO3029 Tuesday 2pm to 3pm, or by appointment. On leave semester 2.

 

Research areas

Teaching and Research Interests

The heart of my research is the scholarly culture of the late Renaissance and early Reformation era.  I worked first of all on humanism and international humanist networks centred upon Reformed Basel, and studied works of cosmography as expressions of early modern history writing, geography and cartography, with a focus upon the intersection between traditional knowledge, scientific enquiry and religion. 

More recently I have worked on Bible scholarship and the culture of translation among those same networks of humanist scholars, and the remarkable body of learning which they produced.  I am working on a study of the new Reformed Latin translations of the Bible in the sixteenth century, each of which speaks to a particular moment of religious, cultural or political crisis.

My teaching covers aspects of European history, chiefly the intellectual and social developments of the northern Renaissance and the Reformation.

PhD supervision

• Sukwoo Choi

Selected publications

• The Latin Bible from the late Middle Ages to Junius-Tremellius

  McLean, M. A., 21 Nov 2024, The Oxford handbook of the Bible and the Reformation. Powell McNutt, J. & Selderhuis, H. J. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 80-93 14 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World

  McLean, M. A. (Editor), 2016, 383 p. Leiden : Brill.

  Research output: Other contribution

• 'Praeceptor amicissimus': Konrad Pellikan, and models of teacher, student and the ideal of scholarship

  McLean, M. A., 14 May 2014, Following Zwingli: Applying the Past in Reformation Zurich. Baschera, L., Gordon, B. & Moser, C. (eds.). Farnham: Ashgate, p. 233-256 24 p. (St Andrews studies in Reformation history).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Shaping the Bible in the Reformation: Books, Scholars and their Readers in the Sixteenth Century

  McLean, M. A. (Editor), 2012, 306 p.

  Research output: Other contribution

• ‘Between Basel and Zürich: Humanist Rivalries and the Works of Sebastian Münster’

  McLean, M. A., 2011, The Book Triumphant: Print in Transition in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Brill, p. 270-291

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster: Describing the World in the Reformation

  McLean, M. A., 2007, Aldershot: Ashgate. 378 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

 

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