Alan Bryson
is a Curator at the British Library. He works on the reigns of Henry viii and Edward vi, with particular interest in the crown’s relations with the nobility and gentry. He has written on Tudor England and Ireland. With Alison Wiggins, Daniel Starza Smith, Anke Timmermann and Graham Williams, he coedited Bess of Hardwick’s Letters: The Complete Correspondence, c.1550–1608 (2013); with Steven W. May, Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland (2016); and with Cathy Shrank, a special issue of Huntington Library Quarterly, entitled ‘Early Modern Manuscript Identities’ (Volume 80, Number 2, Summer 2017). He is writing a monograph on ‘Lordship and the Government of Mid-Tudor England’.
Norman Jones
is Professor Emeritus of History and Religious Studies at Utah State University. His monographs include: Being Elizabethan: Understanding Shakespeare’s Neighbours (2019); Governing by Virtue: Lord Burghley and the Management of Elizabethan England (2015); The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation (2002); The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s (1993); God and the Moneylenders: Usury and the Law in Early Modern England (1989); and Faith by Statute: Parliament and the Settlement of Religion 1559 (1982; Whitfield Prize winner). He co-edited Interest Groups and Legislation in Elizabethan England (1989); The Parliaments of Elizabethan England (1990); The Blackwell Companion to Tudor Britain (2004; Roland Bainton Prize); Local Identities in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (2007); and The Elizabethan World (2011). He is the author of more than forty articles.
Ceri Law
is an independent scholar and the author of Contested Reformations in the University of Cambridge, 1535–84 (Royal Historical Studies in History, 2018). She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project ‘Remembering the Reformation’, based at the University of Cambridge, and as a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. With Lucy Rachel Nicholas, she co-edited Roger Ascham and his Sixteenth-Century World (Brill, 2020).
was Emeritus Professor of British and American Literature at New College of Florida in Sarasota. Following his retirement, he wrote and conducted research at The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. He was the editor of The Monarchical Republic of Early Modern England: Essays in Response to Patrick Collinson, St Andrews Studies in Reformation History (2007). He was the author of more than eight articles on humanists, and most especially, his concentration was on Sir John Cheke. At the end of his life, he was engaged on a biography of Cheke and editions of two of Cheke’s Latin works. He died following a long illness on 27 February 2020.
Lucy Rachel Nicholas
is Lecturer in Latin and Ancient Greek at the Warburg Institute in London. She has published extensively on the mid-Tudor humanist Roger Ascham, including an edited volume entitled: Roger Ascham and his Sixteenth-Century World (Brill, 2020), which she co-edited with Ceri Law. She is also the co-editor of two Neo-Latin Anthologies: An Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature and An Anthology of European Neo-Latin Literature (both with Bloomsbury, 2020). The Latin works of Walter Haddon, Johannes Sturm and Gabriel Harvey represent the focus of her current research.
M. Anne Overell
is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University, UK. She has published widely on religious reform, both catholic and protestant. Close links between reformers in England and in Italy are highlighted in her Italian Reform and English Reformations, c.1535-c.1585 (2008). This was followed by studies of the less-than-orthodox texts owned by Cardinal Reginald Pole and his friends, and of books written by the spirituali, soon circulating in Tudor England. Her book Nicodemites: Faith and Concealment between Italy and Tudor England was published by Brill in 2018 in the St Andrews series. It examines the half-truths and pretence caused by religious persecution. Italian radicals in exile in Basel condemned that persecution; they are the focus of Anne’s most recent work.
Glyn Parry
is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Roehampton, London, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has published a biography of John Dee, The Arch-Conjuror of England (2012), and recently, Shakespeare Before Shakespeare: Stratford, Warwickshire and the Elizabethan State (2020), which was written with Dr. Cathryn Enis. He is also writing a
Cathy Shrank
is Professor of Tudor and Renaissance Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is the author of Writing the Nation in Reformation England, 1530–1580 (2004) and co-editor, with Mike Pincombe, of The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature, 1485–1603 (2009). With Raphael Lyne, she co-edited The Complete Poems of Shakespeare (2017). Current projects include a monograph on dialogue in late medieval and early modern England, funded by a Major Leverhulme Research Fellowship; editions of William Tyndale’s Mammon; and the works of Thomas Nashe.
Richard Simpson
is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Classical Studies in the School of Advanced Study in the University of London. He was a Senior Frances A. Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute. His recent publications include, with Andrew Burnett and Deborah Thorpe, Roman Coins, Money, and Society in Elizabethan England: Sir Thomas Smith’s ‘On the Wages of the Roman Footsoldier ’(2018); and with Paul Drury and others, the major study of Thomas Smith’s house, Hill Hall: A Singular House Devised by a Tudor Intellectual (2009). He has also published on modernist architecture. He was the London Borough of Camden’s Heritage and Design Champion from 2008 to 2018.
Tracey A. Sowerby
is Director of the Europaeum Scholars Programme at the University of Oxford. She has published widely on Tudor diplomacy, humanism, and print culture. She is the author of Renaissance and Reform in Tudor England: The Careers of Sir Richard Morison c. 1513–1556 (2010). Having led projects funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy, she is co-editor of four volumes of essays on early modern diplomacy: Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World c. 1410–1800 (2017); Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World (2019); English Diplomatic Relations and Literary Cultures in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (a special issue of the Huntington Library Quarterly, 2020); and Cultures of Diplomacy at the Ottoman Court c.1500–1632 (2021). She is currently writing two books on the cultural history of Tudor diplomacy for Oxford University Press.
is Fellow, Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies in English at Churchill College, Cambridge. He has published widely on Renaissance humanism, Neo-Latin poetry, and Biblical and literary translation. He edited Neo-Latin and Translation in the Renaissance (2014), and co-edited Neo-Latin and the Pastoral (2006); Early Modern Cultures of Neo-Latin Drama (2013); and the Modern Humanities Research Association’s Ovid in English 1480–1625 (2013).
Susan Wabuda
is Professor of History at Fordham University in New York. She is the author of Preaching during the English Reformation (2002) and Thomas Cranmer (2017), among numerous articles and essays. They include ‘Lost at Paul’s Cross: unrecorded sermons’, in Paul’s Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520–1640, edited by Torrance Kirby and P. G. Stanwood, which was published by Brill in 2014 in the Studies in the History of Christian Traditions series. She has also published ‘The Woman with the Rock: the controversy on women and Bible reading’ in Belief and practice in Reformation England: a tribute to Patrick Collinson from his students, St Andrews Studies in Reformation History (1998), which she co-edited with Caroline Litzenberger.