Professor Steven Gunn

Teaching

I would like to hear from potential DPhil students regarding later medieval and early modern British and European history or any potential Masters students looking into the same period.


I currently teach:

Prelims

FHS Masters

History of the British Isles III, 1330-1550

History of the British Isles III, 1330-1550 State and Society in Early Modern Europe (part of the Mst/MPhil Modern British and European History)
History of the British Isles IV, 1500-1700 History of the British Isles IV, 1500-1700  
European and World History III, 1400-1650

European and World History 6: Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700

 
Paper IV: Approaches to History  Europe, 15:00-17:00  
  Further Subject: The Wars of the Roses, 1450-1500  
  Special Subject: The Trial of the Tudor State: Politics, Religion and Society 1540-1560  
  Disciplines of History  

I supervise research students working on later fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English and international history, a number of whose theses have been published in revised form as books. These include P R Cavill, The English Parliaments of Henry VII, 1485-1504 (Oxford, 2009); Yuval Harari, Renaissance Military Memoirs: War, History and Identity, 1450-1600 (Woodbridge, 2004); Tracey Sowerby, Renaissance and Reform in Tudor England: The Careers of Sir Richard Morison c.1513-1556 (Oxford, 2010); and Monica Stensland, Habsburg Communication in the Dutch Revolt (Amsterdam, 2012). Others have published articles derived from their theses, such as Andrew Boyle, ‘Hans Eworth's portrait of the Earl of Arundel and the politics of 1549-50’, English Historical Review, 117 (2002), 25-47, Kirsten Claiden-Yardley, ‘Tudor noble funerals’, in The Howards and the Tudors: studies in science and heritage, ed. P G Lindley (Donington, 2015), 34-42, Mark Geldof, ‘The Pike and the Printing Press: Military Handbooks and the Gentrification of the Early Modern Military Revolution’, in International Exchange in the early modern Book World, ed. M McLean, S Barker (Leiden, 2016), 147-68, James McComish, ‘Defining Boundaries: Law, Justice, and Community in Sixteenth-Century England’, in Legalism: Community and Justice, ed. F Pirie, J Scheele (Oxford, 2014), 125-150 and Tim Wade, ‘Richard Pace and the Psalms’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 73 (2022), 57-78.