Dr Kate Shore

I am a historian of early modern England and Germany, with a particular focus on religion and print.

Research Interests

My doctoral thesis (completed May 2025) was entitled 'Reformations across borders: printed German perceptions of the English Reformation 1547-1603'. This examined the flow of ideas and information between England and the Holy Roman Empire in the second half of the sixteenth century. A large body of German-language broadsheets, news pamphlets and books reported on the developments of the English Reformation and the reigns of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. My research demonstrated the internationalism of both English and German Protestantism and Catholicism in the period and also shed light on approaches to multiconfessionality in the Holy Roman Empire in the wake of the Peace of Augsburg of 1555.

I am currently working on Anglo-German religious connections in the early seventeenth century with a focus on the work of English Puritan William Perkins in German translation.