Michael C. Questier is an English academic and historian

Historian

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Questier studied at Worth School

Worth School

Worth School, near the village of Turners Hill, Crawley, West Sussex, England, is a co-educational Roman Catholic boarding and day independent school for pupils aged between 11–18 years. The school is located with Worth Abbey, a Benedictine monastery, in of Sussex countryside...

 and Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College, Oxford

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. In 1991 he completed a D.Phil at the University of Sussex

University of Sussex

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 on early modern politico-religious history. He has published works on post-Reformation history, and English Catholicism

Catholicism

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 between the early Reformation

Reformation

- Movements :* Protestant Reformation, an attempt by Martin Luther to reform the Roman Catholic Church that resulted in a schism, and grew into a wider movement...

 and the Civil War

Civil war

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, particularly focusing on anti-popery, aristocratic

Aristocracy (class)

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 culture

Culture

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, the Jacobean

Jacobean

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 exchequer

Exchequer

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, and the experience of conversion

Religious conversion

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. He taught at Worcester College, Oxford

Worcester College, Oxford

Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in the eighteenth century, but its predecessor on the same site had been an institution of learning since the late thirteenth century...

, was a British Academy

British Academy

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 Postdoctoral Fellow at King's College, London, and in 2002, became a senior lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London

Queen Mary, University of London

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, subsequently becoming its Professor of Early Modern British

Early Modern Britain

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 and European History. He has also been a Visiting Fellow

Visiting fellow

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 at All Souls College, Oxford

All Souls College, Oxford

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Published works

• "Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580-1625", Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History (1996) ISBN 0521442141
• The Politics of Religious Conformity and the Accession of James I, Article (2002) DOI: 10.1111/1468-2281.00051
• *Newsletters from the Caroline Court, 1631-1638: Volume 26: Catholicism and the Politics of the Personal Rule, Camden Fifth Series xvi+358 (2005) ISBN 0521854075
• "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 (2005)
• http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hjQHtU3OiisC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Catholicism+and+Community+in+Early+Modern+England:+Politics,+Aristocratic+Patronage+and+Religion,+c.1550-1640&source=bl&ots=_wDkDuWse9&sig=3_RZSLyE7TB3ml9ZPbnhuq7T9pk&hl=en&ei=_a51TODkIMyNjAeKp_SVBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c.1550-1640"], Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History (2006) ISBN 0521860083
• "Arminianism, Catholicism and Puritanism in England during the 1630s", Historical Journal, 49, pp. 53–78 (2006) doi:10.1017/S0018246X05005054.
• "Catholic Loyalism in Early Stuart England", English Historical Review, cxxiii, pp. 1132–65 (2008)
• Stuart Dynastic Policy and Religious Politics, 1621-1625, Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society (2009) ISBN 9780521194037

Co-authored published works

• England's long reformation, 1500-1800, Nicholas Tyacke UCL Press Ch 8, pp 195–225 (1998) with Professor Peter Lake. ISBN 1857287568 | ISBN 978-1857287561
• Newsletters from the Archpresbyterate of George Birkhead, Camden Fifth Series, (1999), with George Birkhead, ISBN 052165260X
• The Antichrist’s Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England, Yale University Press (2002), with Professor Peter Lake, ISBN 0300088841 | ISBN 0300088847
• Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, c.1560-1660, Studies in Modern British Religious History - Boydell and Brewer (2000), with Professor Peter Lake, ISBN 0851157971 | ISBN 978-0851157979
• The Trials of Margaret Clitherow: Persecution, Martyrdom and the Politics of Sanctity in Elizabethan England (2011) with Professor Peter Lake, ISBN 1441104364 | ISBN 978-1441104366

Further reading

"Religion in the State Papers 1603-1640"