Elected 1974
Early modern Russian history, history of cartography, empire, visuality, and witchcraft, with interests in politics, gender, and religion in Russia and in comparative perspective
Early modern literature in its historical and intellectual contexts, especially poetry and drama; Edmund Spenser's engagement with Gaelic Ireland, the dynamics of Tudor and Jacobean patronage, the aesthetics of Renaissance tragedy.
Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University
