University of Oxford History Faculty

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Dr Martin Ingram

M.A., D.Phil.
Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History

Research Interests

Dr Ingram's research interest lie in the field of crime and the law, sex and marriage, and popular customs in early modern England. He has also published on the history of climate.

Selected Publications:

Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570-1640. (Cambridge, 1987)
'"Scolding Women Cucked or Washed": A Crisis in Gender Relations in Early Modern England?' in Women, Crime, and the Courts in Early Modern England. (London, 1994)
'Reformation of Manners in Early Modern England' in The Experience of Authority in Early Modern England. (Basingstoke, 1996) pp. 47-88
'Child Sexual Abuse in Early Modern England' in Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society: Order, Hierarchy and Subordination in Britain and Ireland. (Cambridge, 2001) pp. 63-84
'Regulating Sex in Pre-Reformation London' in Authority and Consent in Tudor England: Essays Presented to C S L Davies. (Aldershot, 2002) pp. 79-95
'Family and Household' in A Companion to Renaissance Drama. (Oxford and Malden, MA, 2002) pp. 93-108
'Love, Sex and Marriage' in Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide. (Oxford, 2003) pp. 114-26
'Shame and Pain: Themes and Variations in Tudor Punishments' in Penal Practice and Culture, 1500-1900: Punishing the English. (Basingstoke, 2004) pp. 36-62
'Charivari and Shame Punishments: Folk Justice and State Justice in Early Modern England' in Social Control in Europe: Volume I, 1500-1800. (Columbus, 2004) pp. 288-308
'The Information of Mary Hall, Westminster Sessions Roll (1626)' in Reading Early Modern Women: an Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1550-1700. (New York and London, 2004) pp. 40-2
'Cosin, Richard' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography from the Earliest Times to the Year 2000. Vol XIII (Oxford, 2004) pp. 538-9
'Lougher, Robert' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography from the Earliest Times to the Year 2000. Vol XXXIV (Oxford, 2004) pp. 480-1
'Review-Article: Men and Woman in Late Medieval and Early Modern Times', English Historical Review. Vol CXX (2005) pp. 732-58

Future Publications:

'The English Reformation in the Sixteenth Century: Major Themes and New Viewpoints', Historische Zeitschrift.
In Favour of Marriage: Regulating Sex in Tudor England.

Research Interests and Activities

Early Modern Britain and Europe