Faculty Postholders
Dr Christopher Haigh
Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History
Email: christopher.haigh@chch.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Dr Haigh has written about the Reformation in England, post-Reformation Protestantism and Catholicism, and Elizabethan politics. He has just finished a book on 'The Plain Man's Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640', and is interested in most aspects of politics and religion from circa 1509 to circa 1642.
Supervision Interests
English politics and religion between 1529 and 1640.
Selected Publications:
- The English Reformation Revised. (Cambridge, 1987)
- English Reformations: Religion, Politics and Society under the Tudors. (Oxford, 1993)
- 'Politics in an Age of Peace and War, 1570-1630' in The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain. (Oxford, 1996) pp. 330-360
- Elizabeth I. (London, 1998)
- 'Success and Failure in the English Reformation', Past and Present. Vol 173 (1) (2001) pp. 28-49
- 'The Troubles of Thomas Pestell: Parish Squabbles and Ecclesiastical Politics in Caroline England', Journal of British Studies. Vol 41 (2002) pp. 403-428
- 'The Reformation in England to 1603' in The Blackwell Companion to the Reformation. (Oxford, 2003)
- 'Clergy JPs in England and Wales, 1590-1640', The Historical Journal. Vol 47 (2004) pp. 233-259
- 'The Character of an Antipuritan', Sixteenth Century Journal. Vol XXXV (2004) pp. 671-88
- 'A G Dickens and the English Reformation', Historical Research. Vol 77 (2004) pp. 24-38
Future Publications:
- 'Dr Temple's Pew: Sex and Clerical Status in the 1630s', Huntington Library Quarterly. Vol 68 Number 3 (2005) pp. 497-517
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