Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Latest PhD success
Posted on 22 June 2015
Chris's thesis, titled 'Law, Counsel and Commonwealth: Languages of Power in the Early English Reformation', and supervised by Dr John Cooper in the Department of History, examines how Tudor writers used a political idiom encompassing ideas relating to counsel, invoking the commonwealth, and the body to participate in political controversies surrounding the changing nature of power during the Reformation, from around 1528 until the end of Edward VI's short reign.
With Jonas van Tol, Chris is co-editing a volume on Godly Governance: Religion and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, which builds on a very successful conference, sponsored by CREMS, and is under contract with Brill.