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Dr Adam Morton

Reader in Early Modern British History

  • Email: adam.morton@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: School of History, Classics and Archaeology
    Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
    缅北禁地,
    缅北禁地 upon Tyne,
    NE1 7RU

Background

Adam arrived in 缅北禁地 in 2014, having previously worked at the universities of Oxford, Warwick and York. His work focusses on Reformation Britain, which he defines as ‘very long’ by seeing its concerns spreading into the early eighteenth century. The explicit focus of his research considers the cultural impact of Protestantism, the development of anti-Catholicism, the inter-related nature of tolerance and intolerance, and the impact of Reformed theology upon visual and material cultures. These research interests are the focus of his PhD thesis, which he is currently revising for publication.


Adam has broader research interests in the study of laughter, tolerance and intolerance, the history of the book, and the experience of belief in early modern England. He is also attached to the HERA-funded project ‘Marrying Cultures: Queens Consort and European Identities, 1500-1800’ led by a team of researchers in Oxford, Lund, and Wolfenbüttel. His research on this project focuses on the cultural impact and confessional strains wrought by the marriage of Charles II of England to Catherine of Braganza, his Portuguese wife. This research includes working on a diverse body of source material, from state papers, literature, news media and material culture.


 

Research

Adam has research interests in the 'long Reformation' in Britain, print and visual culture, satire and laughter, anti-Catholicism and toleration. He would be delighted to supervise PhD study in any of these fields and welcomes all enquiries about post-graduate research.

He suggests that the following topics are particularly ripe for study:

- Gender in the long Reformation

- The representation of royal births and deaths in Tudor and Stuart Britain

- anti-Catholicism in England c.1580-1850

- Popular Anglicanism 1660-1700

- Early modern stereotypes

- Assessments of dialogue and contradictions between religious and natural philosophical conceptions of the senses in the seventeenth centuries.

- Protestantism's relationship with rhetoric

- The circulation of bible stories in cheap print

 

These are suggested topics and are meant to be indicative of the types of materials and areas which Adam is keen to supervise. He is, however, highly keen to hear suggested research topics from prospective graduate students.

Teaching

- Aspects of British History

- Elizabeth I: the Politics of Religion

- Reading History: Diane Purkiss, The Witch in History

- Tudor Religion: Continuity and Conflict in England, c. 1470-1558

- Pathway in British History

- Ideas and Influences in British History 

Publications

  • Articles

    • Morton A. . Studies in Church History 2024, 60, 312-339.
    • Morton A. . The Seventeenth Century 2016, 31(4), 411-449.
    • Morton A. . Reformation 2015, 20(1), 1-24.
    • Morton A. 'Coming of Age? The image in Early Modern England’. Journal of Early Modern History 2011, 15, 435-457.

  • Book Chapters

    • Hammersley R, Morton A. . In: Rachel Hammersley & Adam Morton, ed. Civil Religion in the Early Modern Anglophone World, 1550-1700. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2024.
    • Morton A. . In: John Morrill & Liam Temple, ed. The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Volume II: Uncertainty and Change, 1641-1745. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, pp.170–188.
    • Morton A. . In: Yamamoto, K, ed. Stereotypes and stereotyping in early modern England: Puritans, papists and projectors. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022.
    • Morton A. . In: Angela Ellis, Robert E. Scully SJ, ed. A Companion to Catholicism and Recusancy in Britain and Ireland. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2022, pp.410-448.
    • Morton A. . In: Brian Cummings & Alexandra Walsham, ed. Memory and the English Reformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp.80-97.
    • Morton A. . In: Knights M; Morton A, ed. The Power of Laughter & Satire in Early Modern Britain: Political and Religious Culture, 1500-1820. Martlesham: Boydell & Brewer, 2017.
    • Morton A. . In: Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly and Adam Morton, ed. Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016, pp.172-201.
    • Morton A. . In: Baranova,T; Szcech,N, ed. Usages et stratćégies polémiques en Europe au temps de l’humanisme du XIV au milieu du XVII siècle. Berne, Germany: Peter Lang, 2016.
    • Morton A. . In: Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly and Adam Morton, ed. Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016, pp.1-14.
    • Stronks E, Morton A, Dietz F. . In: Dietz,F; Morton,A; Roggen,L; Stronks,E; VanVaeck,M, ed. Illustrated Religious Texts in the North of Europe, 1500-1800. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014, pp.1-18.
    • Morton A. . In: Davies,D; Fletcher,P, ed. News in early modern Europe: currents and connections. Leiden: Brill, 2014, pp.115-140.
    • Morton A. . In: Morton, A; Dietz, F; Roggen, L; Stronks, E; Van Vaeck, M, ed. Illustrated Religious Texts in the North of Europe, 1500-1800. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014, pp.135-166.
    • Morton A, Lewycky N. 'Introduction'. In: Morton,A; Lewycky,N, ed. Getting Along? Confessional politics, identity and non-conformity in early modern Europe – essays in honour of Professor W. J. Sheils. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.

  • Edited Books

    • Hammersley R, Morton A, ed. Civil Religion in the early modern Anglophone World 1500-1700. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2024. In Preparation.
    • Knights M, Morton A, ed. . Boydell Press, 2017.
    • Watanabe-O'Kelly H, Morton A, ed. . Abingdon: Routledge, 2017.
    • Dietz F, Morton A, Roggen L, Stronks E, Van Vaeck M, ed. . Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.
    • Morton A, Lewycky N, ed. Getting Along? Religious Identities and Confessional Relations in Early Modern England - Essays in Honour of Professor W.J. Sheils. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.