John Cooper, MA, DPhil (Oxon), AM (University of Pennsylvania)
Office: Vanbrugh College V/205
Tel: Internal 2948, External (01904) 43-2948
Fax: (01904) 432986
e-mail: jpdc500@york.ac.uk
Biography
John Cooper is a Lecturer in the Department of History and in the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.
Research interests
John Cooper works on the political, religious and literary history of sixteenth-century Britain. His initial research explored the relationship between regional and national culture in Tudor England, and the role of imagery and royal propaganda in fostering popular allegiance to the monarchy. He is currently writing a study of the Elizabethan statesman and spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham, to be published by Faber. Themes addressed include the intellectual origins of Walsingham's Protestantism; the English Catholic mission and resistance theory; and English attitudes towards Ireland.
He welcomes enquiries from prospective postgraduate students in early modern British history, particularly those interested in the monarchy, the Reformation, the development of the state, and rebellion and popular politics.
Resources available for research students in York
Early modern history is unusually well served at York. The J. B. Morrell Library has a good range of primary and secondary resources for sixteenth-century history, including the State Papers on microfilm, and access to Early English Books Online and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The Raymond Burton Library for Humanities Research has the Elton collection of books on open shelves. The Borthwick Institute, located on campus, houses the records of the Archbishop of York together with much other material relating to the religious and social history of the period, and its archivists can offer expert advice. The interdisciplinary Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies hosts frequent lectures and seminars, and fosters a vibrant research culture.
Selected publications
Book
- Propaganda and the Tudor State: Political Culture in the Westcountry (Oxford University Press, 2003).
Articles (selected)
- 'Tudor royal propaganda and the power of prayer', in G. W. Bernard and S. J. Gunn (eds), Authority and Consent in Tudor England (Ashgate, 2002).
- 'King Edward VI', in Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World (Scribner, 2003).
- Thirteen articles in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004), including Sir Peter Carew, adventurer; Henry Courtenay Marquess of Exeter, courtier and conspirator; Humphrey Arundell, rebel leader.