Professor Michael Questier
Professor in History
Location: Arts Two 3.06email: m.c.questier@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7882 8367
Michael Questier took something approximating to a first degree at Balliol College, Oxford. Then, after a brief spell in which he established that he was unlikely to train successfully for the law, he went to the University of Sussex where he eventually completed a D.Phil. on an aspect of early modern politico-religious history. Via Worcester College (Oxford), King’s College (London) he eventually ended up at Queen Mary.
Research interests:
Professor Questier has interests in the politics of religion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and has published on topics of post-Reformation history as diverse as aristocratic culture, the experience of conversion, the Jacobean exchequer and anti-popery. He has collaborated with Professor Peter Lake (Vanderbilt) in work on the “public sphere” and popular politics.
Postgraduate supervision:
He welcomes applications from postgraduates who feel that they are capable of enduring the stress which inevitably accompanies the pursuit of a Ph.D.
Publications:
Newsletters from the Caroline Court, 1631-1638: Catholicism and the Politics of the Personal Rule (Camden Society, fifth series, 26, 2005). Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c 1550-1640 (Cambridge University Press, 2006)Stuart Dynastic Policy and Religious Politics, 1621-1625 (Camden Society, fifth series, 34, 2009).
(with Ginevra Crosignani and Thomas McCoog) Recusancy and Conformity in Early Modern England: Manuscript and Printed Sources in Translation (Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies; Toronto University Press, 2010), pp. xxxiv+432
Forthcoming Publications
(with Peter Lake) The Trials of Margaret Clitherow: Persecution, Martyrdom and the Politics of Sanctity in Elizabethan England (Continuum, 2011)
The Secret Political History of Britain c. 1558-1688 (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Examples of research funding:
Undergraduate teaching:
Society and the State in England and Britain c 1500-1720 (Level 4: HST 4201)Politics, Society and Religion in the Reign of James I (Level 5: HST 5204)
Catholicism in Post-Reformation England 1558-1642 (Level 6: HST6210)