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First Name
Emilie
Last Name
Murphy
Country
United Kingdom
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Affiliation
University of York
Website URL
https://www.york.ac.uk/history/staff/profiles/murphy/
Keywords
English Reformation, Counter-Reformation Europe, Post-Reformation Catholicism, sound, senses, music, society, and culture in early modern England, women, women's writing, convents, nuns, exiles, migration, language.
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About Me

I am Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of York and specialist of the cultural and religious history of early modern England. I have experience sharing my research with a public audience on TV and radio, and have offered expert advice and comment for musical recording projects and TV shows.

Recent Publications

Books:

(ed. with Robin Macdonald and Elizabeth L. Swann) Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (London: Routledge, 2018).

Peer-reviewed Essays:

‘Making Memories in post-Reformation English Catholic musical miscellanies’ in Memory and the English Reformation Brian Cummings et al (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).

‘Exile and Linguistic Encounter: Early Modern English Convents in the Low Countries and France’, Renaissance Quarterly 73 (2020): 132-164.

‘Language and Power in an English Convent in Exile, c.1621-c.1631’, The Historical Journal 62 (2019): 101-125.

‘Introduction’ in Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (New York: Routledge, 2018). With Robin Macdonald and Elizabeth Swann.

‘A sense of place: hearing English Catholicism in the Spanish Habsburg territories, 1568-1659’ in Sensing the Sacred, eds. Murphy, Macdonald and Swann, 136-157.

‘Musical self-fashioning and the “theatre of death” in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England’, Renaissance Studies 30 (2016): 410-429.

‘Ballads and Catholic culture in post-Reformation Lancashire: piety, protest and conversion’, British Catholic History 32 (2015): 492-525.

‘Adoramus te Christe: Music and post-Reformation English Catholic domestic piety’ in Religion and the Household: Studies in Church History Vol. 50, eds. Alexandra Walsham et al. (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2014): 242-255.

Media Coverage
I have media experience, and have shared my research expertise with the general public through features on radio (BBC Radio 4), and on television in the UK (BBC 1 - Countryfile) and US (What on Earth, The Science Channel - for WAG TV).
Country Focus
England
Expertise by Geography
British Isles, England, United Kingdom, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
Pre-17th century, 17th century, Early Modern
Expertise by Topic
Gender, Migration & Immigration, Religion