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Staff Profile of Dr Paul Cavill MA (Oxon.), M.St., D.Phil.

Name:

Dr Paul Cavill

Position:

Lecturer in Early Modern History

Email:

Location:

Room 222.6 Main Arts

Phone:

+44 (0)1248 383623

Areas of Teaching and Supervision

Undergraduate modules

  • The Birth of Modern Europe? Christendom Divided, c.1470–c.1560 (Part One: convenor)
  • England and Wales, 1461–1558 (Part Two: General Course)
  • England and Wales, 1558–1642 (Part Two: General Course)
  • Early Modern Society: England c.1485–c.1642 (Part Two: Topic Course)
  • The Scottish Reformation, c.1525–c.1603(Part Two: Topic Course)
  • The Tudor Parliament (Part Two: Special Subject)

Postgraduate modules

  • Kings, Queens and Lawyers in Renaissance England
  • Documents and Sources in Medieval and Early Modern History (contributor)

Current Research

My areas of interest are politics, government, and the constitution in Tudor England. I have recently completed a study of the parliaments of Henry VII, which will be published by OUP in 2009.

Publications

  • ‘The Enforcement of the Penal Statutes in the 1490s: Some New Evidence’, Historical Research (in print 2009)
  • ‘The Debased Coinage of 1492’, British Numismatic Journal 77 (2007), 283–6
  • ‘Debate and Dissent in Henry VII’s Parliaments’, Parliamentary History, 25 (2006), 160–75
  • ‘The Problem of Labour and the Parliament of 1495’, in The Fifteenth Century, v: Of Mice and Men: Image, Belief and Regulation in Late Medieval England, ed. L. Clark (Woodbridge, 2005), 143–55