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Professor Michael Mullett

Professor Emeritus

Research Interests

• The History of Christianity including Catholicism, the Reformation and Counter Reformation, Protestantism, Nonconformity and Quakers.
• British Catholics, Quakers.

Publications

Monographs and other Books

• Radical Religious Movements in Early Modern Europe, Early Modern Europe Today (London, 1980).
• Popular Culture and Popular Protest in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Beckenham, Kent, 1987).
• Sources for the History of English Nonconformity, 1660-1832, Archives and the User 8 (London, 1991).
• John Bunyan in Context, 1628-1688, Studies in Protestant Nonconformity (Edinburgh, 1996).
• Catholics in Britain and Ireland, 1558-1829, Social History in Perspective (Basingstoke, 1998).
• The Catholic Reformation (London and New York, 1999).
• Luther (London and New York, 2004).
• English Catholicism, 1680-1830, (6 vols., London, 2006)

Edited Collections

• Early Lancaster Friends (Lancaster, 1978).
• New Light on George Fox 1624 to 1691: Papers from the George Fox Tercentenary Conference Held at the University of Lancaster in 1991 (York, 1994).

Recent Articles

• Entries on James Anderton (1557-1613), Laurence Anderton (1575-1643), John Angier (1605-1677), James Arderne (d. 1691), Alexander Briant (1556-81), Seth Bushell (1620/21-1684), Thomas Cartwright (1634-1689), Thomas Case (d. 1682), Thomas Curwen (c.1610-1680), Anne Docwra (c.1624-1710), Leonard Fell (1624-1701), Richard Heyrick (1600-1667), John Lewgar (d. 1665), William Lloyd (1627-1717), John Nicholls (1555-1584?), Sir Robert Pye (c.1622-1701), Thomas Ramsay (fl. c.1647-1653), Sir Richard Shelley (c.1513-1587), Nathaniel Stephens (1606/7-1678), Christopher Taylor (1614/15-1686), Cipriano de Valera (c.1532-c.1606), Thomas Vane (b.1599/1600), Edward Walsingham (d.1663), and Thomas White (1628-1698), in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004), s.n.
• 'Recusants, Dissenters and North-Western Politics between the Restoration and the Glorious Revolution', in John C. Appleby and Paul Dalton (ed.), Government, Religion and Society in Northern England, 1000-1700, (Stroud, 1997), pp. 199-209.
• With Stuart Mews, 'Catholicism and the Church of England in a Northern Library: Henry Halstead and the Burnley Grammar School Library', in Diana Wood (ed.), Life and Thought in the Northern Church c.1100 - c.1700: Essays in honour of Claire Cross, Studies in Church History: Subsidia 12 (Woodbridge, 1999).
• 'Late Medieval Piety', Lancaster University Centre for North West Regional Studies Bulletin, n.s. 12 (1998), 61-69.
• 'Friends, Society of'; 'John Bunyan': in Hans J. Hillerbrand (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Protestantism (New York, 2002)
• 'Catholic and Quaker Attitudes to Work, Rest and Play in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century England', in R.N. Swanson (ed.), The Use and Abuse of Time in Christian History, Studies in Church, 37 (2002)
• 'The Reformation in the Parish of Whalley', in Robert Poole (ed.), Lancashire Witches Histories and Stories (London and New York, 2002)
• With Dr John Callow, 'The Shireburnes of Stonyhurst: Memory and Survival in a Lancashire Catholic Recusant Family', in Richard Dutton (ed.), Lancashire Shakespeare: Religion, Religion and Patronage (Manchester and New York, 2003)
• 'The Catholic Reformation and the Arts', in Tom Schornberg (ed.), Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Vol. 106 (Thompsonville, MI, 2001)

Works Forthcoming

• Historical Dictionary of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation (Scarecrow Press, c.2010).

Areas of Research Supervision

Professor Mullett is interested in hearing from students interested in writing dissertations and theses on topics that would fall under the following headings:

• European and British Religious History from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries.
• The History of North-Western England in the Early Modern Period.
• Quakerism and other species of nonconformity.
• Catholic History.
• Jewish History.

Associated Keyword: History

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