Professor Andrew Spicer

Professor Emeritus of Early Modern European History

School of Education, Humanities and Languages

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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