Curriculum Vitae. Peter Lake 1708 Beechwood Avenue Nashville, TN (615) Date of Birth 23 August 1952 EDUCATION

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1 Curriculum Vitae Peter Lake 1708 Beechwood Avenue Nashville, TN (615) Date of Birth 23 August 1952 EDUCATION Clare College, Cambridge University BA in History, 1973 Ph.D. in History 1978 EMPLOYMENT 2008 to present, Distinguished University Professor of early modern English history Vanderbilt University , Professor of History, Princeton University , Reader in History, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London , Visiting Associate Professor, Department of History, Cornell University , Lecturer in History, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London. ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS 2012 winner of the Ben Jonson Prize for the best essay on Ben Jonson published in the Ben Jonson Journal for that year. (In the interests of full disclosure I should add that not all the articles published in that journal are about Ben Jonson.) 2011 Ford s lecturer, Oxford University.

2 2011, visiting fellow All Soul s College, Oxford. July 2007, Speaker, The Prothero Lecture for the Royal Historical Society, London , R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California , Visiting Leverhulme Professor at Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire , Guggenheim Fellow , Research Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C , Lilly Fellow, National Humanities Center, Triangle Park, North Carolina , Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey , Research Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C 1979, Joint winner from a field of two of the Archbishop Cranmer Prize, Cambridge University , Research Fellowship, Clare College, Cambridge University PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Editor with Ann Hughes and Anthony Milton of a monograph series on early modern Britain for Manchester University Press. Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of British Studies. BOOKS 2

3 With Michael Questier, The trials of Margaret Clitherow (Continuum, 2011) The Antichrist s Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post Reformation England, Yale University Press, The Boxmaker s Revenge: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London, Manchester University Press and Stanford University Press, Anglicans and Puritans? Presbyterianism and English Conformist Thought from Whitgift to Hooker, Unwin Hyman, Moderate Puritans and the Elizabethan Church, Cambridge University Press, Editor with Stephen Pincus, The Public Sphere in Early Modern England, (Manchester University Press, 2007). Editor with Ken Fincham, Religious politics in post reformation England (Boydell and Brewer, 2006) Editor with Tom Cogswell and Richard Cust of Politics, religion and popularity (Cambridge University Press, 2002) Editor with Michael Questier of Orthodoxy and Conformity in the English Church, Boydell and Brewer, Editor with Kevin Sharpe of Culture and Politics in early Stuart England, Macmillan and Stanford University Press, Editor with Maria Dowling of Protestantism and the National Church in Sixteenth Century England, Routledge and Kegan Paul, ARTICLES The dilemma of the establishment puritan; the Cambridge Heads and the case of Francis Johnson and Cuthbert Bainbrigg, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 29, 1978 Matthew Hutton; a puritan bishop? History, vol. 64,

4 Robert Some and the ambiguities of moderation, Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte, vol. 71, The significance of the Elizabethan identification of the pope as Antichrist, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 31, The collection of ship money in Cheshire during the sixteen thirties, Northern History, vol. 17, Constitutional consensus and puritan opposition during the 1620 s; Thomas Scott and the Spanish match, Historical Journal, vol. 25, with Richard Cust, Sir Richard Grosvenor and the rhetoric of magistracy, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, vol. 54, Puritan identities, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 35, with K.C. Fincham, The ecclesiastical policy of James I, Journal of British Studies, vol. 24, William Bradshaw, Antichrist and the community of the godly, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 36, Calvinism and the English church, , Past and Present, number 114, February Feminine piety and personal potency; the emancipation of Mrs. Jane Ratcliffe, The Seventeenth Century, vol. II, Conformist clericalism? Richard Bancroft s analysis of the socio-economic roots of presbyterianism in Studies in Church History, W.J. Sheils, ed., Oxford University Press, Presbyterianism, the idea of a national church and the argument from divine right in Protestantism and the National Church in Sixteenth Century England, Peter Lake and Maria Dowling, eds., Routledge and Kegan Paul, Serving God and the times; the Calvinist conformity of Robert Sanderson, Journal of British Studies, vol. 27,

5 Anti-popery; the structure of a prejudice in Conflict in Early Stuart England, Richard Cust and Ann Hughes, eds., Longman, The impact of early modern protestantism, The Journal of British Studies, vol. 28, Richard Kilby; a study in personal and professional failure in Studies in Church History, W. J. Sheils, ed., Oxford University Press, Puritanism, Arminianism and a Shropshire axe murder, Midland History, Lancelot Andrewes, John Buckeridge and avant garde conformity at the court of James I in The Mind of the Jacobean Court, L.L. Peck, ed., Cambridge University Press, Protestants, puritans and Laudians, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 42, The Laudians and the argument from authority in Court, Country and Culture, B. Kunze and D. Brautigam, eds., Boydell and Brewer, An historiographical introduction to a reissue of Geoffrey Nuttall s The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in Puritan Faith and Experience, University of Chicago Press, The Laudian style; order, uniformity and the pursuit of the beauty of holiness in the 1630s in The Early Stuart Church, K. Fincham, ed., Macmillan, with K., Fincham, The ecclesiastical policies of James I and Charles I, also in The Early Stuart Church. with Kevin Sharpe, the introduction to Culture and Politics in Early Stuart England, P. Lake and K. Sharpe, eds., Macmillan and Stanford University Press, Deeds against nature; cheap print, protestantism and murder in early modern England also in Culture and Politics in Early Stuart England. Defining puritanism again? in Puritanism; Transatlantic Perspectives on an Anglo- American Faith, Frank Bremer, ed., Massachusetts Historical Society, Popular form, puritan content? Two puritan appropriations of the murder 5

6 pamphlet from mid-seventeenth century London in Religion, Culture and Society, Anthony Fletcher and Peter Roberts, eds., Cambridge University Press, A review article of recent work by C.S.R. Russell in The Huntington Library Quarterly, January Predestinarian propositions, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, January The moderate and irenic case for religious war; Joseph Hall s Via Media in context in Political Culture and Culture Politics in Early Modern England, S.D. Amussen and M. Kishlanksky, eds., Manchester University Press, with Ken Fincham, Popularity, prelacy and puritanism in the 1630s; Joseph Hall explains himself, The English Historical Review, September A charitable Christian hatred ; the godly and their enemies in the 1630s in The Culture of English Puritanism, C. Durston and J. Eales, eds., Macmillan, Wentworth s political world in revisionist and post-revisionist perspective in The Political World of Thomas Wentworth, J. Merritt, ed., Cambridge University Press, with Michael Questier, Agency, appropriation and rhetoric at the foot of the gallows: puritans, romanists and the state in early modern England, Past and Present, November, with Michael Questier, Priests, prisons, and people during the long reformation in The Long Reformation, N. Tyacke ed., University College London Press, Periodisation, politics, and the social, Journal of British Studies, vol. 37, Religious identities in Elizabethan England in A Companion to Shakespeare, D. Kastan, ed., Blackwell, With David Como, Puritans, antinomians and Laudians in Caroline London: The strange case of Peter Shaw in contexts, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, November

7 With David Como, Orthodoxy and its discontents: Dispute settlement and production of consensus in the London (puritan) underground, Journal of British Studies, Joseph Hall, Robert Skinner and the rhetoric of moderation at the early Stuart court in The English Sermon, Lori-Ann Ferrell and Peter McCullough eds., Manchester University Press, Moving the goal posts? Modified subscription and the construction of conformity in the early Stuart church in Orthodoxy and Conformity in the English Church, P. Lake and M. Questier, eds., Boydell and Brewer, Joseph Hall, Robert Skinner and the rhetoric of moderation at the early Stuart court in The English Sermon, Lori-Ann Ferrell and Peter McCullough eds., Manchester University Press, with Michael Questier, Puritans, papists and the public sphere in Elizabethan England: the Campion affair in context, The Journal of Modern History, Business as usual? The immediate reception of Hooker s Ecclesiastical Polity, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 52, From Troynouvant to Heliogabulus s Rome and back; order and its others in the London of John Stowe in Imagining Early Modern London, J. Merritt, ed., Cambridge University Press, Order, orthodoxy and resistance: the ambiguous legacy of English puritanism or just how moderate was Stephen Denison in Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society: Order, Hierarchy, and Subordination in Britain and Ireland, M.J. Braddick and John Walter, eds., Cambridge University Press, Ministers, magistrates, and the production of order in Measure for Measure. Shakespeare Survey, Puritans, petitions and popularity; local politics and national contexts, Cheshire 1641 in Cogswell, Cust and Lake, eds., Politics, religion and popularity. 7

8 The Anglican Moment? Richard Hooker and the ideological watershed of the 1590s in Stephen Platter ed., Anglicanism and the western Christian tradition (The Canterbury Press, 2003) With Michael Questier, Margaret Clitherow, catholic nonconformity, martyrology and the politics of religious change in Elizabethan England, and the politics of catholic non conformity in Past and Present, no. 185, November The monarchical republic of Elizabeth I revisited (by its victims) as a conspiracy in B. Coward and J. Swann, eds., Conspiracies and conspiracy theory in early modern Europe (Aldershot, 2004) Ben Jonson and the politics of Roman (catholic) virtue: Elizabethan tyranny, Jacobean absolutism and republicanism, Catholic loyalist style, in Ethan Shagan ed., Catholics and the Protestant Nation (Manchester, 2005) The king, (the queen) and the Jesuit: The true law of free monarchies in context/s in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6 th series, 14, (2004). Puritanism, familism and heresy in early Stuart England: the case of John Etherington revisited in John Marshall and David Lowenstein eds., Heresy, literature and politicsin early modern English culture (Cambridge, 2006). Anti-puritanism: the structure of a prejudice and Puritanism, Arminianism and Nicholas Tyacke both on K. Fincham and P. Lake, eds., Religious politics in post reformation England (Woodbridge, 2006). With Steven Pincus, Rethinking the public sphere in early modern England, Journal of British Studies, With Steve Pincus, Rethinking the public sphere in P. Lake and S. Pincus, eds., The politics of the public sphere in early modern England, (Manchester, 2007). The politics of popularity and the post reformation public sphere: the monarchical republic of Elizabeth I defends itself in P. Lake and S. Pincus, eds., The politics of the public sphere in early modern England, (Manchester, 2007) Reading Clarke s lives in context in Kevin Sharpe and Steve Zwicker, eds., 8

9 Writing lives ( Oxford, 2008) The historiography of puritanism in John Coffey and Paul Lim, eds., The Cambridge Guide to Puritanism (Cambridge, 2008). With Thomas Cogswell, Buckingham does the Globe: Henry VIII and the politics of popularity in the 1620s, Shakespeare Quarterly, 60, The Court, the Country and the Northamptonshire connection: watching the puritan opposition think (historically) about politics on the eve of the English civil war Midland History, XXXV, Puritanism, (monarchical) republicanism and monarchy; or John Whitgift, anti-puritanism and the invention of popularity, The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 40, (2010). Religion and cheap print in Joad Raymond, ed., The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture (OUP, 2011). Ben Jonson and the politics of Conversion: Catiline and the relocation of Roman (Catholic) virtue, The Ben Jonson Journal, 19, (2012). Putting the politics of conscience on the public stage in Sir John Oldcastle pt. 1 in N. Lewycky and A. Morton, eds., Getting along (Farnham, 2012). With Michael Quester, St Margaret of York, History Today, 63;7, (2012). Saving souls and selling (virtual) godliness? The penny godlinesses of John Andrewes and the problem of popular puritanism in early Stuart England in A. Deutermann and A. Kisery, eds., Formal matters (Mancehster, 2013). With Michael Questier, Taking it to the street? The Archpriest Controversy and the issue of the succession, in Susan Doran and Paulina Kewes, eds., Doubtful and dangerous: the issue of the succession in late Elizabethan England (Manchester, 2014) FORTHCOMING BOOKS AND ARTICLES 9

10 BOOKS With Isaac Stephens, Libel and religious identity in early Stuart England. A Northamptonshire maid s tragedy, (Boydell, 2015). Brief chronicles of the time; performing politics in Shakespeare s England (Yale University Press, 2015). Bad queen Bess? Libelous politics and secret histories in an age of confessional conflict (OUP, 2015/16) Articles Shakespeare s Julius Caesar and the search for a useable (Christian?) past in David Lowenstein and Michael Whitmore, eds., Shakespeare and religion (Cambridge University Press, 2014/15) An evaluation of Patrick Collinson s The Elizabethan puritan movement in a special number of History dedicated to Collinson s work (2015?). Post reformation politics, or on not looking for the long term causes of the English civil war, in M. Braddick, ed., The Oxford Handbook to the English revolution (Oxford University Press, 2015). The theatre and the post reformation public sphere, in M. Smuts, ed., The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare s England (Oxford University Press) The political thought of the monarchical republic of Elizabeth I, discovered and anatomised, Journal of British Studies, 2015/16. With Michael Questier, The public politics of regime change; Thomas Digges, Robert Parsons and Sir Francis Hastings contest the religio-political arithmetic of the Elizabethan fin de siècle, Historical Journal. 10

11 Current Projects I am attempting to finish off two collaborative projects of embarrassingly long standing; the first, with Richard Cust is a study of the politics of Chesire and the outbreak of the English civil war and the second with Michael Questier a study of the performative politics of exorcism in Elizabethan and early Stuart England. I am also contracted with Tom Cogswell to write the early Stuart volume of the Oxford History of England. Reviews in such journals as the American Historical Review, the English Historical Review, Journal of British Studies, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Journal of Modern History, Huntington Library Quarterly, History, History Today. PAPERS AND SEMINARS Papers presented in such places as: Harvard University, Columbia University, U.C.L.A, University of Chicago, Cornell University, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, Louisiana State University, University of the South, Emory University, Oxford University, University of London, Cambridge University, University of Durham, University of York, Yale University and Manchester University. Seminar called Puzzling Evidence with David Kastan of Columbia University in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Seminar taught with Nigel Smith, , at the Folger. Week-long sessions for the National Endowment for the Humanities summer schools, one conducted for college and university teachers at Claremont and the other at the Folger. Seminar on Early Modern England, Institute for Historical Research, University of London, with other faculty in the field, such as C.S.R. Russell, Nicholas Tyacke, and Pauline Croft, helped organize a bi-weekly seminar from

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