Shakespeare and religion; Reformation and Counter-Reformation literature; the vernacular and neo-Latin writing of post-Reformation British Catholics; the literature of Anglicanism; early modern book history and manuscript studies.
Stuart works on the histories of violence, social relations, law, and the emotions in early modern Europe. He is currently working on the Invention of Civil Society, the sequel to Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe (2023).
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