Michael Questier
Michael C. Questier is an English academic and historian.
Questier studied at Worth School and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1991 he completed a D.Phil at the University of Sussex on early modern politico-religious history. He has published works on post-Reformation history, and English Catholicism between the early Reformation and the English Civil War, particularly focusing on anti-popery, aristocratic culture, the Jacobean exchequer, and the experience of conversion. He taught at Worcester College, Oxford, was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at King's College London, and in 2002, became a senior lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London, subsequently becoming its Professor of Early Modern British and European History. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.
Published works
- "Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580-1625", Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
- , Article
- : Volume 26: Catholicism and the Politics of the Personal Rule, Camden Fifth Series xvi+358
- "Elizabeth and the Catholics" in Catholics and the Protestant Nation: Religious Politics and Identity in Early Modern England, Manchester University Press, edited by E. Shagan, pp. 63–94
- , Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
- , Historical Journal, 49, pp. 53–78 .
- , English Historical Review, cxxiii, pp. 1132–65
- Stuart Dynastic Policy and Religious Politics, 1621-1625, Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society TLS, August 8, 2025.
Co-authored published works
- , Nicholas Tyacke UCL Press Ch 8, pp 195–225 with Professor Peter Lake. |
- , Camden Fifth Series,, with George Birkhead,
- The Antichrist's Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England, Yale University Press, with Professor Peter Lake,
- Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, c.1560-1660, Studies in Modern British Religious History - Boydell and Brewer, with Professor Peter Lake, |
- The Trials of Margaret Clitherow: Persecution, Martyrdom and the Politics of Sanctity in Elizabethan England with Professor Peter Lake, |