Faculty Postholders
Dr Felicity Heal
M.A., D.Phil., F.R.Hist.S.
Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History
Email: felicity.heal@jesus.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Dr Heal has written books on the economic problems of the Tudor bishops, on hospitality in early modern England and on the gentry. Her most recent book is Reformation in Britain and Ireland. She is now researching the theme of gift giving and social exchange.
Supervision Interests
The Reformation in Britain. All aspects of religious history from the late fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. Social history of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in England, especially the nobility and gentry.
Selected Publications:
- Of Prelates and Princes: A Study of the Economic and Social Position of the Tudor Episcopate. (Cambridge, 1980)
- Hospitality in Early Modern England. (Oxford, 1990)
- The Gentry in England and Wales, 1500-1700. (Basingstoke, 1994)
- 'Reputation and honour in Court and Country: Lady Elizabeth Russell and Sir Thomas Hoby', Royal Historical Society Transactions. Vol 6, 6 (1996) pp. 161-178
- 'Concepts of generosity in early modern England' in Luxury and Austerity: Historical Studies. Vol 21 (Dublin, 1999) pp. 30-45
- 'The Economic Patronage of William Cecil' in Patronage, Culture and Power: The Early Cecils. (New Haven & London, 2002) pp. 199-230
- Reformation in Britain and Ireland. (Oxford, 2003) 568pp.
- 'Mediating the Word: Language and Dialects in the British and Irish Reformations', Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Vol 56 (2) (2005) pp. 261-86
- 'What can King Lucius do for you? Early British Church History and Reformation Polemics', English Historical Review. Vol 120 (2005) pp. 593-614
- 'Appropriating History: Catholic and Protestant Polemics and the National Past', Huntington Library Quarterly. Vol 68 (2005) pp. 109-132
- 'Giving and Receiving on Royal Progress' in The Progresses, Pageants and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I. (Oxford, 2007) pp. 46-61
Future Publications:
- 'Faith of our forefathers? Elite families and the memory of religious identity in early modern England' in Between honour and disgrace:aristocratic memory in early modern Europe.. (2005)
- 'Gifts and gift-exchange in the great household: 1500-1650', Past and Present. (2008)
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