Faculty

Peter Lake
University Distinguished Professor of History
Professor of the History of Christianity, Divinity School

PhD, Cambridge, 1978

Early modern English history, with an emphasis on religion, politics and culture.   
 
Telephone:  615-322-3333
Email: peter.lake@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours: On leave 2012-2013
Office:  211 Benson Hall

Peter Lake works on post-Reformation English History (mostly in the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods).  He has written five books, including The Trials of Margaret Clitherow: Persecution, Martyrdom and the Politics of Sanctity in Elizabethan England (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011; co-authored with Michael Questier), The Antichrist's Lewd Hat (Yale University Press, 2002), The Boxmaker's Revenge (Stanford University Press, 2001), Anglicans and Puritans?: Presbyterianism and English Conformist Throught from Whitgift to Hooker (Unwin Hyman, 1988) and Moderate Puritans and the Elizabethan Church (Cambridge University Press, 1982). He is also co-editor of six collections of essays.  He is currently working on three projects: a book on Shakespeare's history plays and the religious and dynastic politics of the 1590s; a book on Catholic critiques of the Elizabethan regime as a conspiracy of evil counsel and a tyranny; and a book about Samuel Clarke’s collections of godly lives.