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Professor
Lucy Wooding
FRHistS
Born
Lucy Elizabeth Catherine Wooding
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Historian and academic
TitleProfessor of History
Children3
Academic background
Alma materMagdalen College, Oxford
ThesisFrom humanists to heretics: English Catholic theology and ideology, c.1530-c.1570 (1994)
Doctoral advisorSusan Brigden
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsQueen's University Belfast
King's College London
Lincoln College, Oxford
Notable worksTudor England: A History

Lucy Elizabeth Catherine Wooding FRHistS (also Kostyanovsky)[1] is a British historian of Tudor England. She is Professor of History at the University of Oxford and Langford Fellow and Tutor in History at Lincoln College.[2]

Academic career

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Wooding completed her undergraduate and doctoral degrees at Magdalen College, Oxford, where her doctoral supervisor was Susan Brigden.[3] After completing her DPhil in 1994 she became a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, before moving to King's College London in 1995. She became Reader in History at King's in 2015 before she joined Lincoln College in October 2016, succeeding her former supervisor Brigden as the college's tutor in early modern history.[3] She was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of History by the University of Oxford in October 2024.[4]

In addition to her academic roles, Wooding has served as Fellow Archivist and Welfare Dean for Lincoln College since 2021[5] and as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Faculty of History since 2022.[6]

She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).[7]

Research

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Wooding's doctoral research focused on Catholic theology during the English Reformation, and she published her first monograph on this topic, Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England, in 2000.[8] Her second book, published in 2009, was a biography of Henry VIII.[9] Reformation historian Peter Marshall called the book "the best general biography of Henry VIII in nearly half a century".[10] Her third, Tudor England: A History, was published by Yale University Press in 2022.[11]

Beyond her monographs, Wooding has contributed journal articles and book chapters on subjects such as Erasmus' Bible translations,[12] John Jewel's Apology for the Church of England,[13] and the printing of books during the Marian Restoration.[14]

Media work

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Wooding appeared as a panelist on an episode of the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time in November 2009, discussing the Münster Rebellion with Diarmaid MacCulloch and Charlotte Methuen.[15] Also in 2009 Wooding appeared in an episode of the Radio 4 series The Hidden Henry discussing Henry VIII's role as a father with Susan Doran.[16] She appeared twice on Suzannah Lipscomb's podcast Not Just the Tudors, discussing life in Tudor England in November 2022[17] and the life of Henry VIII in November 2023.[18]

Wooding also contributes reviews of early modern history books to Literary Review,[19] London Review of Books,[20] Times Higher Education[21] and Times Literary Supplement.[22] She has also written for the magazine History Today.[23]

Personal life

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Wooding is married with three children.[24]

Bibliography

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Books

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Articles

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  • 'Richard Whitford's Werke for Housholders: Humanism, Monasticism and Tudor Household Piety', Studies in Church History 50 (2014), pp. 161–173
  • 'Erasmus and the Politics of Translation in Tudor England', Studies in Church History 53 (2017), pp. 132–145
  • 'Encountering the Word of God in Early Tudor England', English Historical Review 136 (2021), pp. 836–866

Chapters

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  • 'From Tudor Humanism to Reformation Preaching', in Peter McCullough, Hugh Adlington and Emma Rhatigan, eds., The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 328–347
  • 'Remembrance in the Eucharist', in Andrew Gordon and Thomas Rist, eds., The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England: Memorial Cultures of the Post-Reformation (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2013), pp. 19–36
  • 'Catholicism, the Printed Book and the Marian Restoration', in Vincent Gillespie and Susan Powell, eds., A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558 (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2014), pp. 307–324
  • 'Reading the Crucifixion in Tudor England', in Sabrina Corbellini, Margriet Hoogvliet and Bart Ramakers, eds., Discovering the Riches of the Word: Religious Reading in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2015), pp. 282–310
  • '"So sholde lewde men lerne by ymages": Religious Imagery and Bible Learning', in Robert Armstrong and Tadhg Ó Hannracháin, eds., The English Bible in the Early Modern World (Leiden: Brill Publishing, 2018), pp. 29–52
  • 'John Jewel, Elizabethan Religion and the Invention of the Church of England', in Sarah Bastow, André A. Gazal and Angela Ranson, eds., Defending the Faith: John Jewel and the Elizabethan Church (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2019), pp. 1–17

References

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  1. ^ "Lucy Kostyanovsky". King's College London. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  2. ^ "Professor Lucy Wooding". Faculty of History, University of Oxford. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Professor Lucy Wooding". Lincoln College, Oxford. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  4. ^ "Recognition of Distinction" (PDF). University of Oxford Gazette. 155 (5431): 21. 3 October 2024.
  5. ^ "Lincoln College Record, 2022-23" (PDF). Lincoln College, Oxford. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  6. ^ "University of Oxford Calendar, Michaelmas 2022" (PDF). University of Oxford. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  7. ^ "List of Fellows (February 2024)" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  8. ^ Wooding, Lucy (2000). Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198208650.
  9. ^ Wooding, Lucy (2009). Henry VIII. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415339964.
  10. ^ "Henry VIII - 2nd Edition". Routledge. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  11. ^ Wooding, Lucy (2022). Tudor England: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300162721.
  12. ^ Wooding, Lucy (2017). "Erasmus and the Politics of Translation in Tudor England". Studies in Church History. 53: 132–145.
  13. ^ Lucy Wooding (2019). "John Jewel, Elizabethan Religion and the Invention of the Church of England". In Angela Ranson; André A. Gazal; Sarah Bastow (eds.). Defending the Faith: John Jewel and the Elizabethan Church. Penn State University Park: Penn State University Press. pp. 1–17.
  14. ^ Lucy Wooding (2014). "Catholicism, the Printed Book and the Marian Restoration". In Vincent Gillespie; Susan Powell (eds.). A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 307–324.
  15. ^ "In Our Time, The Siege of Munster". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  16. ^ "The Hidden Henry, Henry the Father". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
  17. ^ "Not Just the Tudors - Life in Tudor England". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  18. ^ "Not Just the Tudors - Henry VIII: What You Really Need to Know". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  19. ^ "Lucy Wooding". Literary Review. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  20. ^ "Lucy Wooding". London Review of Books. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
  21. ^ "Lucy Wooding". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  22. ^ "Lucy Wooding Archives". Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  23. ^ "Lucy Wooding". History Today. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
  24. ^ Wooding, Lucy (2022). Tudor England: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. xii. ISBN 978-0-300-16272-1.
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