Professor Andrew Spicer
Professor Emeritus of Early Modern European History
School of Education, Humanities and Languages
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Role
Andrew Spicer joined Oxford Brookes University in 2003 from the University of Exeter.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, serving as Literary Director (2016–21); the Society of Antiquaries; Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. From 2020–22, he was President of the Sixteenth Century Society.
Research
Andrew's research focuses on:
- the socio-cultural impact of the Reformation, principally, church architecture
- death and burial
- iconoclasm and confessional violence
- the material culture of worship
- sacred space.
This research encompasses France, the Low Countries and Scotland. Building on his doctoral research, he continues to publish on early modern migration and immigrant communities in England.
Publications
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Journal articles
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Spicer A, Anglican Rites of Consecration and the Delineation of Sacred Space, c. 1689–1735
Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 90 (2) (2021) pp.324-347 ISSN: 0009-6407 eISSN: 1755-2613 Anglican Rites of Consecration and the Delineation of Sacred Space, c. 1689–1735 Open Access version on RADAR -
Spicer A, Adiaphora, Martin Luther and the Material Culture of Worship
Studies in Church History 56 (2020) pp.246-272 ISSN: 0424-2084 eISSN: 2059-0644 Adiaphora, Martin Luther and the Material Culture of Worship Open Access version on RADAR -
Spicer A, Religious Representation in Comenius's Orbis sensualium pictus (1658)
Reformation & Renaissance Review 21 (1) (2019) pp.64-88 ISSN: 1462-2459 eISSN: 1743-1727 Religious Representation in Comenius's Orbis sensualium pictus (1658) Open Access version on RADAR -
Spicer A, Iconoclasm
Renaissance Quarterly 70 (3) (2017) pp.1007-1022 ISSN: 0034-4338 eISSN: 1935-0236 Iconoclasm Open Access version on RADAR -
Spicer A, L’Entretien d’un catholique et d’un calviniste (1684). Les Huguenots et reliques dans l’Orléans moderne
Revue d’histoire du protestantisme 1-3 (2016) ISSN: 2297-6167 -
Spicer A, The 'Livre du Clerc' of the French Church in Southampton, 1853–1939
Huguenot Society Journal 30 (2) (2014) pp.37-43 -
Spicer A, After Iconoclasm: Reconciliation and Resacralization in the Southern Netherlands, ca. 1566-85
The Sixteenth Century Journal 44 (2013) pp.411-433 ISSN: 0361-0160 eISSN: 2326-0726 -
Spicer A, Consecration and Violation: Preserving the Sacred Landscape in the (Arch)diocese of Cambrai, c. 1550-1570
Intersections 22 (2012) pp.253-274 ISSN: 1568-1181 -
Spicer A, Holiness and the Temple: Thomas Adams and the Definition of Sacred Space in Jacobean England
The Seventeenth Century 27 (1) (2012) pp.1-24 ISSN: 0268-117X -
Spicer A, 'Le Quatriesme Ordre' : the Diaconate in the French-Walloon Churches of London and Sandwich, c. 1568-1573
Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London 29 (1) (2008) pp.1-13 ISSN: 0309-8346 -
Spicer A, The Consistory Records of Reformed Congregations and the Exile Churches
Proceedings- Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland 28 (5) (2008) pp.640-663 ISSN: 0957-0756 -
Spicer A, (Re)building the sacred landscape: Orleans, 1560 1610
French History 21 (3) (2007) pp.247-268 ISSN: 0269-1191 eISSN: 1477-4542 -
Spicer A, Accomodating of Thalme Seflis to Heir the Worde: Preaching, Pews and Reformed Worship in Scotland, 1560-1638
History 88 (2004) pp.405-422 ISSN: 0018-2648 eISSN: 1468-229X -
Spicer A, Laudianism in Scotland? St-giles-cathedral, Edinburgh, 1633-39 - a Reappraisal
Architectural History 46 (2004) pp.95-108 ISSN: 0066-622X eISSN: 2059-5670
Books
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Knight, F, Methuen C, Spicer A, (ed.),
The Churches and Rites of Passage
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Cambridge University Press (2023) ISSN: 0424-2084 eISSN: 2059-0644 ISBN: 9781009421744 -
Methuen C, Spicer A, (ed.),
The Church in Sickness and in Health
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Cambridge University Press (2022) eISSN: 2059-0644 ISBN: 9781009284806 -
Methuen C, Ryrie, A, Spicer A, (ed.),
Inspiration and Institution in Christian History
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Cambridge University Press (2021) ISBN: 9781316514801 -
McKitterick R, Methuen C, Spicer A, (ed.),
The Church and the Law
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Cambridge University Press (2020) ISBN: 9781108839631 -
Morwenna Ludlow
Charlotte Methuen
Andrew Spicer, (ed.),
Churches and Education
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Cambridge University Press (2019) ISBN: 9781108487085 -
Brown SJ, Methuen C, Spicer A, (ed.),
The Church and Empire
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Cambridge University Press (2018) eISSN: 2059-0644 ISBN: 9781108473798 -
Ditchfield S, Methuen C, Spicer A, (ed.),
Translating Christianity
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Cambridge University Press (2017) ISBN: 9781108419246 -
Stevens Crawshaw J, Spicer A, (ed.),
The Place of the Social Margins, 1350-1750
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Routledge (2016) ISBN: 9781138790728 -
Andrews F, Methuen C, Spicer A, (ed.),
Doubting Christianity: The Church and Doubt
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Cambridge University Press (2016) ISBN: 9781107180734 -
Spicer A, (ed.),
Parish Churches in the Early Modern World,
Ashgate (2016) ISBN: 9781472446084 -
Methuen C, Spicer A, Woolfe J, (ed.),
Christianity and Religious Plurality
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Boydell and Brewer (2015) eISSN: 1361-7672 ISBN: 9780954681036 -
Graeme Murdock
Penny Roberts
Andrew Spicer, (ed.),
Ritual and Violence: Natalie Zemon Davis and Early Modern France
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Oxford University Press (2012) ISBN: 0199654963 -
Spicer A, (ed.),
Lutheran Churches in Early Modern Europe
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Ashgate (2012) ISBN: 9780754665830 eISBN: 9781315250144 -
Author: Duke A, Edited by: Pollmann J, Spicer A, (ed.),
Dissident identities in the early modern Low Countries
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Ashgate (2009) ISBN: 9780754656791 -
Duke A, Pollman J, Spicer A ,
Dissident Identities in the Early Modern Low Countries ,
Ashgate (2009) ISBN: 9780754656791 -
Andrew Spicer,
Calvinist Churches in Early Modern Europe,
Manchester University Press (2007) ISBN: 9780719054877 -
Judith Pollmann
Andrew Spicer, (ed.),
Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands
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Brill (2006) ISBN: 9789047411604 -
Will Coster
Andrew Spicer, (ed.),
Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe
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Cambridge University Press (2005) ISBN: 9780521824873 -
Andrew Spicer
Sarah Hamilton, (ed.),
Defining the Holy. Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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Ashgate (2005) ISBN: 0754651940 -
Raymond A. Mentzer
Andrew Spicer, (ed.),
Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685
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Cambridge University Press (2002) ISBN: 0521773245 -
Andrew Spicer,
The French-speaking Reformed Community and their Church in Southampton, 1567-c. 1620,
Huguenot Society / Southampton Record Series (1997) ISBN: 0854326472
Book chapters
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Spicer A, Inscriptions, Text and the Material Culture of Worship in the Southern Netherlands, c.1566–1621
in French, Anna (ed.), Reading the Reformations, Brill (2023) ISBN: 9789004521230 eISBN: 9789004521247 -
Spicer A, Iconoclasm in Mid-Sixteenth Century France
in Richard A. Etlin (ed.), The Cambridge Guide to the Architecture of Christianity, Cambridge University Press (2022) ISBN: 9781108471510 -
Spicer A, The Scottish Reformation and Church Architecture, 1560–ca.1638
in William Ian P. Hazlett (ed.), A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, ca. 1525–1638, Brill (2022) ISBN: 9789004329720 -
Andrew Spicer, Bells, Confessional Conflict and the Dutch Revolt, c. 1566s-1585
in Colin, Marie-Alexis Fenlon, Iain Laube, Matthew (ed.), Theatres of Belief. Music and Conversion in the Early Modern City, Brepols (2021) ISBN: 9782503598871 eISBN: 9782503598888 -
Spicer, Andrew, Liturgical Space in the German and Scottish Reformations
in Dorothea Wendebourg, Euan Cameron and Martin Ohst (ed.), Sister Reformations III = Schwesterreformationen III From Reformation Movements to Reformation Churches in the Holy Roman Empire and on the British Isles-Von der reformatorischen Bewegung zur Kirche im Heiligen Römischen Reich und auf den britischen Inseln, Mohr Siebeck (2019) ISBN: 9783161589324 Liturgical Space in the German and Scottish Reformations Open Access version on RADAR -
Spicer A, The Huguenots and Marks of Honor and Distinction in the Parish Church and Reformed Temple
in Karen E. Spierling, Erik A. de Boer, R. Ward Holder (ed.), Emancipating Calvin. Culture and Confessional Identity in Francophone Reformed Communities, Brill (2018) ISBN: 9789004363410 -
Andrew Spicer, The Material Culture of the Lord’s Supper: Adiaphora, Beakers, and Communion Plate in the Dutch Republic
in Barbara Pitkin (ed.), Semper Reformanda: John Calvin, Worship, and Reformed Traditions, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (2018) ISBN: 9783525552735 eISBN: 9783666552731 -
Andrew Spicer, Afterword
in Gabriella Scarlatta and Lidia Radi (ed.), Representing Heresy in Early Modern France, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (2017) ISBN: 9780772721877 -
Andrew Spicer, Epilogue. Jamme Masjid mosque and Layered Landscapes
in Eric Nelson and Jonathan Wright (ed.), Layered Landscapes: Early Modern Religious Space across Faiths and Cultures, Routledge (2017) ISBN: 9781472459510 eISBN: 9781317107194 -
Spicer A, Aliens, Native Englishmen and Migration: William Herbert’s 'Considerations in the behalf of Foreiners' (1662)
in Andrew Spicer and Jane Stevens Crawshaw (ed.), The Place of the Social Margins, 1350-1750, Routledge (2016) ISBN: 9781138790728 Aliens, Native Englishmen and Migration: William Herbert’s 'Considerations in the behalf of Foreiners' (1662) Open Access version on RADAR -
Spicer A, The Material Culture of Early Modern Churches
in David Gaimster, Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe, Routledge (2016) ISBN: 9781409462699 -
O’Halloran L, Spicer A, Catholic Burial and Commemoration in Early Seventeenth Century Lancashire
in Elizabeth Tingle and Jonathan Willis (ed.), Dying, Death and Burial in Reformation Europe, Ashgate (2016) ISBN: 9781472430144 -
Spicer A, The Huguenots and Art, c. 1560-1685
in Mentzer R, van Ruymbeke B (ed.), A Companion to the Huguenots, Brill (2016) ISBN: 978-90-04-31035-3 eISBN: 978-90-04-31037-7 -
Andrew Spicer, Martin Luther and the Material Culture of Worship
in Martin Luther and the Reformation / Treasures of the Reformation, Sandstein Verlag (2016) ISBN: 9783954982233 -
Spicer A, Dutch Churches in Asia
in Andrew Spicer (ed.), Parish Churches in the Early Modern World, Ashgate (2015) ISBN: 9781472446084 -
Spicer A, Parish Churches in the Swiss Romande
in Andrew Spicer (ed.), Parish Churches in the Early Modern World, Ashgate (2015) ISBN: 9781472446084 -
Spicer A, The Early Modern Parish Church: An Introduction
in Andrew Spicer (ed.), Parish Churches in the Early Modern World, Ashgate (2015) ISBN: 9781472446084 -
Spicer A, Lady Anne Clifford and her Church Building
in Donovan C (ed.), A Fresh Approach. Essays Presented to Colin Platt in Celebration of his Eightieth Birthday 11 November 2014 by some of his former students, Trouser Press Publishing (2014) ISBN: 9780993094408 -
Spicer A, 1885: French Protestantism and Huguenot Identity in Victorian Britain
in Benedict P, Daussy H, Léchot P (ed.), L'Identité huguenote: Faire mémoire et écrire l'histoire (XVIe-XXIe siècle), Librairie Droz (2014) ISBN: 978-2-600-01752-7 eISBN: 978-2-600-11752-4 -
Spicer A, Iconoclasm on the Frontier: Le Cateau-Cambrésis, 1566
in Marina Prusac and Kristine Kolrud (ed.), Iconoclasm from Antiquity to Modernity, Ashgate (2014) ISBN: 9781409470335 -
Spicer A, 'Hic coeli porta est, hic domus ecce dei': Lutheran churches in the Dutch World, c.1566-1719
in Lutheran churches in early modern Europe, Ashgate Publishing (2012) ISBN: 9780754665830 -
Spicer, Andrew, “Of no church”. Immigrants, liefhebbers and Confessional Diversity in Elizabethan London, c. 1568–1581
in Isabel Karremann Cornel Zwierlein Inga Mai Groote (ed.), Forgetting Faith? Negotiating Confessional Conflict in Early Modern Europe, De Gruyter (2012) ISBN: 9783110267525 eISBN: 9783110270051 -
Spicer, A, Disjoynet, Dismemberit and Disuneited: Church-building and Re-drawing Parish Boundaries in Post-Reformation Scotland: A Case Study of Bassendean, Berwickshire
in The Archaeology of Post-medieval Religion, Boydell & Brewer (2011) ISBN: 978-1-84383-693-3 -
Spicer A, "God Hath put such secrets in nature": The Reformed Kirk, Church Building and Re-drawing Parish Boundaries in Post-Reformation Scotland
in God's Bounty? The Churches & the Natural World, Ecclesiastical History Society (2010) ISBN: 9780954680961 -
Spicer A, L'Evesque en soit adverty:' excommunication in the exile congregations
in Dire l'interdit: The Vocabulary of Censure and Exclusion in the Early Modern Reformed Tradition, BRILL (2010) ISBN: 9789004179226 -
Spicer A , Confessional Space and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe
in Formierungen des konfessionellen Raumes in Ostmitteleuropa, Franz Steiner Verlag (2008) ISBN: 9783515091312
Other publications
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Murdock G, Spicer A, Ritual and Violence: Natalie Zemon Davis and Early Modern France Afterword,
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Murdock G, Roberts P, Spicer A, Ritual and Violence: Natalie Zemon Davis and Early Modern France Preface,
(2012)