Current Projects
Apart from a handful of articles, I’m currently working on two books. The first is about a sixteenth century "false saint", Maria da Visitação: The Confessor and the Nun: A Story of Sanctity and Sin in Early Modern Portugal. The second is an intellectual/political history of sixteenth century Europe through a study of the Jesuit, Robert Persons: Robert Persons Writes the Counter-Reformation: Polemics and Ideas during the Wars of Religion. When I’m done with these I hope to develop a project on the “experience” of history in early modern Europe and another about Italian opera during the "Age of Revolutions."
Articles
“In From the Cold: Notes on Sixteenth Century English Catholic History,” in The Journal of
British Studies, 63:4 (2025), 751-760.
“Luisa de Carvajal, her ‘Life’, and the Place of Women in Counter-Reformation Politics,” in
Dominguez and Bulman, eds. Political and Religious Practice in the Early Modern British
World (Manchester University Press, 2022), 203-219.
“But a ‘Stage-play’: A Counter-Reformation View of the Marian Church,” Journal
of Ecclesiastical History, 72:1 (November 2020), 1-19.
“Relics and Saints: Commemoration and Memorialization of the Holy Dead” in Philip
Booth and Elizabeth Tingle, eds. A Companion to Death, Burial and Remembrance in
Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe 1300-1700 (Brill, 2021), 393-417.
“A Note on the Curious Case of John Bale in Spain,” The Library 21:3 (September 2020),
385-391.
“The Politics of Destroying Books.” Isabelle Fernandes, ed. Publish and Perish: The Practice
of Censorship in the British Isles in the Early Modern Period (Vernon Press, 2020), 137-149.
“Into the Library, Into the Past: Bob Dylan’s Sense of History” Anne-Marie Mai, New
Approaches to Bob Dylan (University Press of Southern Denmark, 2020), 233-246.
“Traitors Respond: English Catholic Polemical Strategies Against Treason during the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.” Larissa Tracy, ed. Treason: Early Modern Treachery, Betrayal, and Shame (Brill, 2019), 250-265.
“History in Action: The Case of Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s Historia ecclesiastica del
scisma de Inglaterra” in the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, XCIII:1 (January 2016), 13-38.
“From Saint to Sinner: Sixteenth-Century Perceptions of ‘La Monja de Lisboa’” in
Hilaire Kallendorf, ed., A New Companion to Hispanic Mysticism (Brill, 2010), 297-322.
Blog Post: “English Martyrs on the Streets of Milan”
Book Reviews
Oscar Recio Morales, Ireland and the Spanish Empire, 1600-1825, in The International History Review, 33:2 (June 2011), 359-360.
Geoffrey Parker, Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II in The Sixteenth Century Journal, XLVI: 3 (2015), 829-831.
Quentin Skinner, Forensic Shakespeare, in Renaissance and Reformation, 39:1 (2016), 200-202.
Marcus Harmes, Bishops and Power in Early Modern England, in Renaissance and Reformation, 39: 3 (2017), 184-185.
Thomas O’Connor, Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition: Migrants, Converts and
Brokers in Early Modern Iberia, in Irish Theological Quarterly, 82:2 (2017), 176-177.
Teresa Bela, Clarinda Calma, Jolanta Rzegocka, eds. Publishing Subversive Texts in
Elizabethan England and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in Journal of British Catholic History, 33:4 ( October 2017), 655-657.
Spencer Weinreich, ed. Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s ‘Ecclesiastical History of the Schism of the Kingdom of England’: A Spanish Jesuit’s History of the English Reformation, in Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, LXXXVI: 171 (2017), 219-220.
Antonio Feros, Speaking of Spain: The Evolution of Race and Nation in the Hispanic World, in the Sixteenth Century Journal, in The Sixteenth Century Journal, XLVIII:4 (2018), 1150-1152.
Thomas McCoog, SJ, The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1598-1606 , in The Catholic Historical Review, 104:3 ( Summer 2018), 551-552.
Victor Houliston, The Correspondence and Unpublished Papers of Robert Persons, Sj: Volume 1: 1574-1588 , in British Catholic History, 34:4 (October 2019), 666-668.
Alexander Samson, Mary and Philip: The marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain , in British Catholic History, 35:2 (May 2021), 354-357.
Liesbeth Corens, Confessional Mobility & English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe, in the Sixteenth Century Journal, 51:4 (Winter, 2020), 1208-1211.
Susan M. Cogan, Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England: Kinship, Gender, and
Coexistence, in Church History, 91:4 (2022), 933-935.
Francis Kelly, Captain Francisco de Cuéllar: Captain Francisco de CuéllarThe Armada,
Ireland, and the Wars of the Spanish Monarchy, 1578–1606 (Four Courts Press, 2021), in The Journal of British Studies, 62: 4 (October 2023), 1060-1062
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