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Hannah
Last Name
Yip
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United Kingdom
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early modern sermons, recreation, loneliness, Reformation studies, religious history, manuscript studies
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About Me

I specialise in early modern religious literature, visual culture, and the artistic and musical pursuits of clergymen in post-Reformation England. My research has been supported by the AHRC and a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship.

Other research interests include loneliness, both in early modern writings and within the academy today. With Thomas Clifton, I am the editor of Writing Early Modern Loneliness (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). This work received coverage in The Boston Globe.

I have also worked as a consultant for the BBC’s acclaimed series, A House Through Time, uncovering crucial biographical material relating to an eighteenth-century Particular Baptist minister (Series 3, Episode 2).

In 2025, I curated a digital exhibition on extra-illustrated early modern books for the John Rylands Research Institute and Library.

Qualifications: DipABRSM, LRSM, BMus (Hons), MSt (Oxon), PhD, FHEA

Recent Publications

Yip, Hannah, ‘Visualising the Crucifix in Early Modern England’, in The Edinburgh Companion to Early Modern Literature and the Arts, ed. by Chloe Porter and Sally Barnden (Edinburgh University Press; invited chapter, forthcoming)

Yip, Hannah, and Ben Jackson, eds, Clerical Lives in England and Wales, c. 1600–1800 (Manchester University Press; under contract, 2027)

Yip, Hannah, ‘Precarious Preachers in the Age of Milton’, Milton Studies (in press)

Yip, Hannah, and Thomas Clifton, eds, Writing Early Modern Loneliness (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

Yip, Hannah, ‘The Familial Afterlives of Parochial Sermons in Early Modern England’, Reformation, 27.2 (2022), 125–140

Yip, Hannah, and Thomas Clifton, ‘“Thrust from the society of many dear friends”: loneliness in early modern Britain and in the humanities today’, The Lancet Psychiatry, 8 (2021), 658–660

Yip, Hannah, ‘What was a Homily in Post-Reformation England?’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 72.1 (2021), 53–70

Yip, Hannah, ‘‘The text and the occasion mingled together make a chequer-worke, a mixture of black and white, mourning and joy’: Visual Elements of the Printed Funeral Sermon in Early Modern England’, in What is an Image in Medieval and Early Modern England?, ed. by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar and Olga Timofeeva (Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2017), pp. 157–182

Media Coverage
https://theconversation.com/how-one-18th-century-sermon-triggered-englands-first-celebrity-crush-with-merchandise-226260
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Expertise by Geography
British Isles, United Kingdom, United States
Expertise by Chronology
Pre-17th century, 17th century, Early Modern
Expertise by Topic
Book History, Libraries & Archives, Literary History, Material Culture, Religion