Reformation of the Church in 16th-century England.
YAMAMOTO-WILSON, John R. 2021 An overview of the English Reformation.
Pain, pleasure and perversity: discourses of suffering in seventeenth-century England.
YAMAMOTO-WILSON, John R. 2013 An in-depth study of early modern attitudes towards suffering, with particular emphasis on the differences in perception between Catholics and Protestants.
Early modern period.
YAMAMOTO-WILSON, John R. Videos covering various aspects of the literature and history of early modern England.
Catholic literature and the rise of Anglicanism.
YAMAMOTO-WILSON, John R. 2022 (2002) Protestant editions of Catholic literature during the early modern period.
Stereotypes and stereotyping in early modern England.
YAMAMOTO, Koji (editor). 2022 This book “explores practices of stereotyping as contested processes”, adducing case studies from the period to show “how stereotypes and their mobilisation shaped various negotiations of power, in spheres of life such as politics, religion, everyday life and knowledge production”.
Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts.
WRIGHTSON, Keith E. 2009 An introduction to the development of English society between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth centuries. Topics covered include the changing social structure, gender roles, economic development, religious change, the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, witchcraft and education, literacy and print culture; crime and the law; poverty and social welfare; […]
The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790.
WHITTLE, Jane, et al. 2023- A four-year Leverhulme-funded project to “transcribe, index and analyse the contents of a very large sample of 25,000 English wills from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury”.
Senses in early modern England, 1558–1660.
WATSON, Jackie, and Simon Smith (editors). 2020 The essays in this work offer “a picture of early modern thought in which sensory encounters are unstable, suggesting ways in which the senses are influenced by the contexts in which they are experienced: at night, in states of sexual excitement, or even when melancholic. The book […]
Memory and the English Reformation.
WALSHAM, Alexandra, Bronwyn Wallace, Ceri Law, Brian Cummings (editors). 2020 “Examining dissident as well as official versions , this richly illustrated, interdisciplinary collection traces how memory of the religious revolution evolved in the two centuries following the Henrician schism, and how the Reformation embedded itself in the early modern cultural imagination.”
Church Papists: Catholicism, conformity and confessional polemic in early modern England.
WALSHAM, Alexandra. 1999 “Church papists” were Catholics who, unlike recusants, conformed outwardly to the requirement to attend Church of England services. The focus on recusants led to the neglect of this sizeable number of Elizabethans, whose role and relevance is demonstrated in this seminal work.