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Jonathan McGovern

@jonathanmcgovern.bsky.social
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Professor of English at Xiamen University. Author of 3 books, most recently 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘦𝘯𝘳𝘺 𝘝𝘐𝘐𝘐 (Boydell). Tudor political/administrative history & early modern literature, inc. Shakespeare. propter se ipsam appetenda scientia

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Jonathan McGovern @jonathanmcgovern.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just out in Law and History Review! I discuss the workings of the court of the marshalsea in the reign of Henry VIII, arguing that reforms to this obscure jurisdiction reflect a general process of 16th-century judicial regularisation.
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Law and Justice in the Court of the Marshalsea of the King’s Household, 1509–1547 | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
Law and Justice in the Court of the Marshalsea of the King’s Household, 1509–1547
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Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
🌟Publication Day!🌟 The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship, ed. Rory Loughnane and Will Sharpe For more details about the book's contents and contributors, see here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Jonathan McGovern @jonathanmcgovern.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
CFP: conference on early globalisms. Please retweet if interested.
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Jonathan McGovern @jonathanmcgovern.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
In this new article, I argue that the Rose Theatre continued in use after 1606, the presumed date of its closure and demolition. It was probably not pulled down until the late 1620s. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KGB3B...
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Jonathan McGovern @jonathanmcgovern.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I was recently invited on the Not Just the Tudors podcast to talk about the Babington Plot: shows.acast.com/not-just-the.... Thank you to Suzannah Lipscomb for a great conversation. Free Spotify link here: open.spotify.com/episode/06AR....
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Plots against Elizabeth I | Not Just the Tudors
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Darren Freebury-Jones @freeburian.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
My thanks to the brilliant @drwillgreen.bsky.social for having me form part of his exciting special issue on Shakespeare and Middleton, and for his superb editorial work.
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Jonathan McGovern @jonathanmcgovern.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Just published in Notes & Queries: new evidence concerning the famous rape accusation against Thomas Culpeper. academic.oup.com/nq/advance-a...
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New Insight on the Rape Accusation Against Thomas Culpeper, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber
On 10 May 1542, an evangelical exile in Strasbourg named Richard Hilles wrote a letter to Henry Bullinger, in which he reported on the Catherine Howard aff
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The Historical Writers' Association has just announced the shortlist for the 2025 HWA Non-fiction Crown - I was one of the judges. So many great books here! 📚
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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
📣Out now on #firstview! Jack Haughton (@camhistory.bsky.social) on 'Dispelling ‘das Herbert Butterfieldproblem’: A Rereading of The Whig Interpretation of History' #IntellectualHistory #Progress #Positive 20thc 🗃️ 👉Read online here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Herbert Butterfield’s The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) is universally received as sceptical of ‘whig’ teleology in historical accounts and, therefore, of politically charged narratives of history. This view stands in need of a basic correction. Butterfield’s work targets teleological accounts which involve a determinate conception of progress such as would arm a partisan politics. He calls this the politics of the ‘general proposition’. Nevertheless, he does defend a conception of progress involving an indeterminate concept. The historian finds, intimated in the detail of the past, that progress is the fruit of interactions between opposing parties. The imperative for the statesman in the present, then, is to facilitate such interactions. In short, The Whig Interpretation of History is a positive work of political thought. Looked at this way, Butterfield’s later, controversial work, The Englishman & His History, does not appear to be in contradiction with the earlier book so much as a polemical expression of it. The two books together present what may be called Butterfield’s politics of historiography. Histories which present progress as a straight line, to be co-opted by one party, encourage precisely the political action which impedes progress. Butterfield, in short, is still a kind of ‘whig’.
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Darren Freebury-Jones @freeburian.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Very exciting to see THE COLLECTED WORKS OF THOMAS KYD: VOLUME 2, for which I am the Associate Editor, now listed on the Boydell & Brewer website. The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd - Boydell and Brewer share.google/Lg1i9VkrMyzD...
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Darren Freebury-Jones @freeburian.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Exciting times as we await imminent proofs for 'The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd: Volume 2'. Seven years in the making, I can't wait to see the full edition out in the world.
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Jonathan McGovern @jonathanmcgovern.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Cover proofs for new book, coming out in December!
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I've just completed the index for @jonathanmcgovern.bsky.social's book 'The Early Parliaments of Henry VIII - an important and very comprehensive work of parliamentary history, coming soon from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-ear...
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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Closing date for this Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist role at The National Archives is this Sunday (31 August). Details via the link in the original post.
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Jonathan McGovern @jonathanmcgovern.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The poverty of scholars, as described in Tang Xianzu's Peony Pavilion (1598), sometimes described as the Chinese Romeo and Juliet.
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Jonathan McGovern @jonathanmcgovern.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I've never seen a video fo Geoffrey Elton before. Amazing that this footage survives and has been made available. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayeg...
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INTERVIEWS WITH HISTORIANS - GEOFFREY ELTON
YouTube video by Institute of Historical Research
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Jonathan McGovern @jonathanmcgovern.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Proofs!
A pen on top of a proofing manuscript.
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Jonathan McGovern @jonathanmcgovern.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
An Elizabethan French lesson. "Sblood! Swoundes! Yeeld thy purse: quicke, quicke, dispatch, yeeld, alight, or I will shoote this bullet into thy belly."
A passage from Ortho-epia Gallica (1593).
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