Dr Sarah Mortimer

I am especially interested in the relationship between political thought and religious ideas, in the aftermath of the Reformation and after the discovery of the New World.  The sixteenth century saw the development of new ideas about salvation, about political life and about what it means to be human; after Luther, Machiavelli and Christopher Columbus the intellectual and political landscape looked very different.  I am exploring how people coped with these new ideas and political realities in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.