Archives and Information in the Early Modern World
Edited by Kate Peters, Alexandra Walsham, and Liesbeth Corens
Author Information
Edited by Kate Peters, Senior College Lecturer in History, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, Alexandra Walsham, Professor of Modern History and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and Liesbeth Corens, Career Development Fellow in Renaissance History, Keble College, University of Oxford
Kate Peters trained as an archivist in 1988-89 and completed a PhD in History in 1996. She has lectured in records and archives management at UCL, and in History at Universities of Birmingham and Cambridge. Her first book, Print Culture and the Early Quakers, examined the role of print in the early Quaker movement of the 1650s. She is currently working on the politics of record keeping in the English civil wars.
Alexandra Walsham is a graduate of the Universities of Melbourne and Cambridge. She taught at the University of Exeter for many years before taking up her current appointment at Cambridge. She has published widely on the religious and cultural history of early modern England and her current research, supported by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, explores the intersections between the Reformation and generational change. She is also the Principal Investigator of the AHRC project, 'Remembering the Reformation'. She became a Fellow of the British Academy in 2009 and was made a CBE in 2017.
Liesbeth Corens is Career Development Fellow at Keble College, Oxford. She is currently completing a book manuscript on Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe for Oxford University Press. Her other project centres on creating counter-archives among Catholic minorities in early modern England and the Netherlands. With Kate Peters and Alexandra Walsham, she co-edited 'The Social History of the Archives: Record-Keeping in Early Modern Europe', Past and Present, supplement 11 (2016).
Contributors:
Ann Blair, Harvard University
Arndt Brendecke, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich
Filippo de Vivo, Birkbeck University of London
Randolph C. Head, University of California, Riverside
Sundar Henny, University of Basel
Arnold Hunt, University of Cambridge
Brooke Palmieri, University College
Kiri Paramore, Leiden University
Kate Peters, University of Cambridge
Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, Boston College
Jacob Soll, University of Southern California
Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania
Heather Wolfe The Folger Shakespeare Library
