Participant Info
- First Name
- Emily
- Last Name
- Hansen
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- emilylynnhansen@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Independent Scholar
- Website URL
- Keywords
- early modern, early modern England, education, grammar schools, schoolmasters, prosopography, the Commonwealth, monarchy (UK/Canada),
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
My research focusses on grammar schools in England from the late fifteenth to the mid seventeenth centuries. I am interested in the purpose of grammar school education in this period, and how the humanist Latin curriculum was viewed compared to other types of knowledge, but even more than that, I am interested in who was establishing schools and why, who was teaching in them, and who was attending them.
An additional area of research concerns the modern-day Commonwealth, what it is and what it does, and what it definitely isn’t – there is considerable misinformation and misunderstanding about the Commonwealth’s purpose and I aim to clarify this to an audience of the general public. The same is true for the subject of the monarchy in the present day; I want to demystify the Crown’s role in both the UK and Canadian contexts.
- Recent Publications
‘A Prosopographical Study of Early Modern English Schoolmasters, c.1480 – c.1650’, Renaissance Studies, vol 35 (4): 675-690.
I cover a number of subjects on my blog howitwasbecause.wordpress.com, including the Commonwealth, monarchy, and occasionally early modern grammar schools.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- England
- Expertise by Chronology
- Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
