Stephen Steele is minister of Stranraer Reformed Presbyterian Church. He has an MA in history from Queen’s University Belfast, where his focus was on nineteenth-century Presbyterianism, particularly the fusion of the Covenanting and Evangelical movements as represented by Thomas Houston. His current research interests include the reception of Codex Alexandrinus by the Puritans, as well…
Papal Judges-Delegate in Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-Century England
Callum Jamieson is a University Tutor at the University of Glasgow. He successfully defended his PhD thesis in December 2023 that was entitled ‘Papal Judges-Delegate in England, c.1130-c.1216’. In keeping with his work on papal judges-delegate, Callum is now focusing on the interaction of English nuns with the system of papal judges-delegate in the twelfth…
Introducing: Michael Snape
Canon Professor Michael Snape is the inaugural Michael Ramsey Professor of Anglican Studies at Durham University. My first role in the Ecclesiastical History Society was as Conference Secretary from 1999 to 2002 and I am delighted to be back as Vice President (and President elect) for 2023–4. It is a great honour to fill this…
Calvinism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Beyond the Sixteenth Century
The Rev. Kazimierz Bem ’10 M.Div., ’11 S.T.M. has been pastor of First Church in Marlborough (Congregational) UCC, in Marlborough, MA., since 2011. He holds a Ph.D. from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with a focus on international refugee law. He is the author of Calvinism in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1548-1648: The Churches and the Faithful (Brill,…
Abduction, Imprisonment, and Schismatic Politics in Late Medieval Sicily
Jessica L. Minieri is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Binghamton University (SUNY). Her dissertation project, ‘Stolen Bodies and Hollow Crowns: Abduction and Imprisonment in the Lands of the Crown of Aragon, 1200-1415’, explores the broader histories of captivity, forced marriage, and imprisonment in Sicily and Mallorca. Jessica is also a member…
Introducing: Joseph Hardwick
Dr Joseph Hardwick was delighted to take on the role of Secretary for the EHS in summer 2023. I am Associate Professor in modern British history at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle upon Tyne. My work explores cultures of communal prayer and worship in modern Britain and the British empire. I’m interested in the…
Sent from Heaven or Hell? Religious Melancholy in Seventeenth-Century England
Dr Emily Betz is the EHS Communications Officer. She also works at the Royal Historical Society and lectures in history at St Mary’s University Twickenham. Her research interests focus on early modern medicine, particularly conceptions of mental illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain. You can follow her on Twitter @Emily_E_Betz. When the future nonconformist clergyman…
Introducing: Edmund Wareham Wanitzek
Dr Edmund Wareham Wanitzek was delighted to take on the role of Publicity Officer for the EHS in summer 2023. I am a lecturer in Early Modern European History at Royal Holloway, University of London and came to Egham via undergraduate and postgraduate study in Oxford, Trier, and Freiburg im Breisgau. My work explores the…
Early Modern Franciscans on War
Ian Campbell is Reader in Early Modern Irish History at Queen’s University Belfast. He has published, with Floris Verhaart, a collection of Calvinist writings on war: Protestant Politics beyond Calvin: Reformed Theologians on War in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Routledge, 2022). He recently edited a cluster of articles on early modern war for the…
Introducing: Dr Emilie Murphy
Blog written by Emilie K. M. Murphy. Dr Murphy is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of York and was pleased to be elected to the committee of the EHS in the summer of 2023. I work on the religious and cultural history of early modern England. My PhD looked at the role…
Crowning the Queen Consort in Late Medieval Scotland
Dr Amy Hayes is a Staff Tutor and Lecturer in History at the Open University. Her forthcoming work on Scottish queenship in the late medieval period is under contract with Palgrave Macmillan’s Queenship and Power series and explores the role of the queen consort in Scotland between the late fourteenth and early sixteenth centuries. She also has…
Conference Report: ‘Margins and Peripheries’ Summer Conference
Conference report written by the EHS Communications Officer Dr Emily Betz. This year’s Summer Conference was held 18-20 July at the University of Warwick. The theme was ‘Margins and Peripheries’, chosen by our new president Peter Marshall (University of Warwick). This theme was chosen to encourage fresh and creative discussion of Christianity’s past, by considering it…
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