Visual Politics in the German Renaissance

Ulinka Rublack is Professor in Early Modern European History, St John's College, Cambridge.

She continues to work on the history of dress and material culture in early modern Europe, visual history, gender history as well as Reformation history. Her most recent article is 'Matter in the Material Renaissance' , Past & Present May 2013, 41-84, which explores how matter related to craft and consumption in the period with reference to leather in fine shoes and wall-paper, and she is working towards a large project entitled "Made to Matter", which investigates the meanings of leather, feathers, fibres, food and stone in the German Renaissance.

Soon to be published is her finished monograph, a full investigation of the witchcraft accusation against Katharina Kepler, mother of the renowned astronomer Johannes Kepler, on the eve of the Thirty Years War.

Currently co-editing The First Book of Fashion (to be published by Bloomsbury in 2015) which presents the first colour edition of the Books of Clothes of Matthaeus and Veit Konrad Schwarz, an unparalleled chronicle of fashion innovation and male Renaissance lives between 1500-1570. This project is undertaken in cooperation with the Herzog Anton and Ulrich Museum in Brunswick, Maria Hayward and Jenny Tiramani.

Rublack is sole editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformation (2016).

Ulinka lectures widely for broader audiences. She has lectured at the Hay Literary Festival and other public venues, and has delivered a range of keynote lectures at conferences and institutes. In May 2013, she delivered a plenary lecture `Did Europe need the Reformation?' at the Kirchentag in Hamburg and in September 2013 the Rand lecture at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, on the history of dress. In February 2014, she will deliver the Oxford Faculty of History Annual Lecture.