S. F. M. Head
@MrHistoryHead
EM History DPhil at @uniofoxford. Researching the use of Genesis commentaries/sermons/lectures for political theology in late 1500s-Mid 1600's England.
Delighted that my debut article is now out online! Revisioning John Sherman’s A Greek in the Temple: Teaching apologetic responses to pagan religion as confessionalised polemic at Cambridge University, c.1627–1641 | History of Universities: Volume XXXVII. academic.oup.com/book/59256/cha…
Massive congratulations 🥂🥳
viva passed with no corrections! next stop @Stanford 🤩
my latest piece is now out (it’s not on hobbes). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…
Very excited to announce that my book, Royal Justice, has been awarded the RHS First Book Prize for 2025. A real honour, for a project I greatly enjoyed working on! royalhistsoc.org/winners-of-the…
One of my friends has published a brilliant article on Giovanni Botero, Commercial Empire, and Venice. Please check it out here! …ine-com.ezproxy-prd.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/doi/full/10.10…
Bloodsuckers of the Commonwealth is available to pre-order now! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526189080/
There's still time to sign up for next week's graduate conference! See below for details ⬇️ intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford-c…
Thomas Cromwell’s fall from from power had political, religious, and diplomatic repercussions, creating a crisis which rocked the whole of Early Modern Europe. Read more in my new article co-authored with Susan Brigden on The Historical Journal (Cambridge University Press).
📣Out now on #firstview! Antonio Pattori (@AntonioPattori) (@UnivOxford) and Susan Brigden (@LincolnOutreach) on 'The Sacrifice of Thomas Cromwell' #Diplomacy #Execution #Alliance #Empire #Monarchy 👉Read open access here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
And the book is now available online! doi.org/10.1093/978019…. If early Tudor classical reception is your thing, please also consider checking out my second book, on Sallust, out in a few months’ time with the Early English Text Society (details in image below).
Thank you to everyone who came to Lost in Time: Before the Guillotine and helped make it such a stimulating event! We hope to replicate that success next year, so watch this space!
Lost in Time: Before the Guillotine starts in just over half an hour! Pop over to the Gustave lecture theatre at UCL to hear about overlooked topics in intellectual history!
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The inaugural Lost in Time: Intellectual History Before the Guillotine conference is taking place this Thursday and Friday! Sign up today to avoid missing out! eventbrite.co.uk/e/lost-in-time…
5 days to go! Sign up today to learn about demons, optics, paratexts, animals, and other overlooked themes in classical, early modern, and medieval intellectual history! eventbrite.co.uk/e/lost-in-time… 10th to 11th of April at University College London
Just a week to go! Sign up at the link below to attend the inaugural 'Lost in Time' intellectual history conference! Don't miss out!! eventbrite.co.uk/e/lost-in-time…
Attention historians of medieval, early modern, and classical ideas! There's just two weeks until Lost in Time: Intellectual History Before the Guillotine! Sign up via this link to avoid missing out!: eventbrite.co.uk/e/lost-in-time…
Three weeks left until Lost in Time: Before the Guillotine! Sign up via Eventbrite to attend on the 10th-11th of April and hear more about overlooked topics, places, and people! eventbrite.co.uk/e/lost-in-time…
Time is ticking to sign up! Three weeks left under the inaugural Lost in Time conference!
Just three weeks left until Lost in Time: Before the Guillotine. Sign up here to join us on the 10th-11th of April and hear about clocks, optics, the Chinese Noah and other overlooked topics in classical, medieval, and early modern intellectual history!: eventbrite.co.uk/e/lost-in-time…