University of Oxford History Faculty

Faculty Postholders

Dr Steven Gunn

M.A., D.Phil., F.R.Hist.S.
Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History

Research Interests

Dr Gunn's current research concerns the councillors and courtiers of Henry VII. He has also published in the wider fields of Tudor government, warfare, foreign policy and political culture and the comparison of the English state in this period with those in continental Europe.

Supervision Interests

Dr Gunn supervises graduate students working on Tudor government, politics and culture and similar themes in continental Europe. Examples of their recent work include A.L. Boyle, 'Hans Eworth's portrait of the earl of Arundel and the politics of 1549-50', English Historical Review, 117 (2002), 25-47; Y.N. Harari, Renaissance Military Memoirs: War, History and Identity, 1450-1600 (Woodbridge, 2004); P.R. Cavill, The Parliaments of Henry VII: England 1485�1504 (Oxford, 2009), 143-55; T.A. Sowerby, '"All our books do be sent into other countreys and translated": Henrician Polemic in its International Context', English Historical Review, 121 (2006), 1271-99; and Tomasz Gromelski, 'The commonwealth and monarchia mixta in Polish and English political thought in the later sixteenth century', in Richard Unger and Jakub Basista (eds), Britain and Poland-Lithuania, Contact and Comparison from the Middle Ages to 1795 (Leiden and Boston, 2008), pp. 167-181.

Selected Publications:

Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk c.1484-1545. (1988)
(ed.) Cardinal Wolsey: Church, State and Art . (1991)
'The Courtiers of Henry VII', English Historical Review. Vol 108 (1993)
Early Tudor government, 1485-1558. (Basingstoke, 1995) 254pp.
'The structures of politics in early Tudor England', Royal Historical Society Transactions. Vol 6, 5 (1995) pp. 59-90
'Sir Thomas Lovell: (c.1449-1524): A New Man in a New Monarchy?' in The End of the Middle Ages?. (1998) pp. 117-153
'Edmund Dudley and the Church', Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Vol 51 (2000) pp. 509-526
''New Men' and 'New Monarchy' in England, 1485-1524' in Powerbrokers in the Late Middle Ages: Les Courtiers Du Pouvoir Au Bas Moyen-Age . (Turnhout, 2001) pp. 153-163
'War, Dynasty and Public Opinion in Early Tudor England ' in Authority and Consent in Tudor England: Essays presented to C.S.L. Davies. (Aldershot, 2002) pp. 131-49
'Henry VII (1457-1509), king of England and lord of Ireland' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol 26 (Oxford, 2004) pp. 510-22
'The Court of Henry VII' in The Court as a Stage: England and the Low Countries in the Later Middle Ages. (Woodbridge, 2006) pp. 132-44
War, State and Society in England and the Netherlands, 1477-1559. (2007) 395pp.
'Henry VII in Context: Problems and Possibilities', History. Vol 92(307) (2007) pp. 301-317
'War and the State in Early Modern Europe: Widening the Debate', War in History. Vol 15 (2008) pp. 371-88
'Prince Arthur's Preparation for Kingship' in Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales: Life, Death and Commemoration. (Woodbridge, 2009) pp. 7-19
'Politic History, New Monarchy and State Formation: Henry VII in European Perspective', Historical Research. Vol 82 (2009) pp. 380-92
'War and the Emergence of the State: Western Europe 1350-1600' in European Warfare 1350-1750. (Cambridge, 2010) pp. 50-73
'War and Identity in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1477-1559' in The Dynamics of Identity in the Low Countries 1300-1600. (Leiden, 2010) pp. 151-72

Future Publications:

Henry VII�s New Men and the Making of Tudor England.
'Anglo-Florentine Contacts, 1485-1547: Political and Social Contexts' in Henrici-Medici: Artistic Links between the Early Tudor Courts and Medicean Florence. (New Haven and London, 2010)
'Archery Practice in Early Tudor England', Past and Present. (2011)

Research Interests and Activities

Early Modern Britain and Europe