JONATHAN JAMES MCGOVERN
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Professional Title: Professor
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Research Papers

Books

1.      Jonathan McGovern, The Little History of England. Cheltenham: The History Press, 2024. 256 pp.

2.      Jonathan McGovern, The Tudor Sheriff: A Study in Early Modern Administration. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 297 pp.

 

Articles

1.      Jonathan McGovern, ‘The Official Career of Sir Christopher Hales, Attorney-General and Master of the Rolls under Henry VIII.’ Accepted, forthcoming in Historical Research. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

2.      Jonathan McGovern, ‘An Early Draft of John Hooker’s The Order and Usage How to Keep a Parliament in England in These Days (c. 1571).’ Accepted, forthcoming in Parliamentary History. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

3.      Jonathan McGovern and Yuxuan Tao, ‘The Parliament of Birds and the Fall of Cardinal Wolsey: A Case Study of Political Allegory in Early Modern England’. Accepted, forthcoming in Studies in Philology. Indexed in the A&HCI. First author.

4.      Jonathan McGovern, Kirsty Wright and Connor Huddlestone, ‘State of the Field: The New Administrative History’, History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Published ahead of print: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13416. Indexed in the A&HCI. First author.

5.      Jonathan McGovern, ‘Parliamentary Procedure in the Reign of Henry VI: New Light on Pilkington’s Case (1455)’, Parliamentary History 43, no. 3 (2024) 266–275. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

6.      Jonathan McGovern, ‘The Place of History in Wang Shouren’s Writings on Foreign Literature’, Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature 8, no. 2 (2024), 264–279. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

7.      Jonathan McGovern, ‘Sir Peter Carew as the Author of A Copye of a letter (1549) Concerning the Western Rebellion’, Notes & Queries 71, no. 2 (2024), 165–167. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

8.      Jonathan McGovern, ‘Unpaid Debts to London Booksellers: John Harrison the Elder’s Lawsuit against Two Chapmen in 1585’, The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 24, no. 3 (2023), 332342. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

9.      Jonathan McGovern, ‘Publicity and Persuasion in Early Modern England: The Babington Plot and its Aftermath, 15861588’, Parergon 40, no. 1 (2023), 119143. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

10. Jonathan McGovern, ‘Sir David Owen as Knight of the Shire for Sussex in 1523’, Notes & Queries 70, no. 1 (2023), 12. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

11. Jonathan McGovern ‘The Practical Historical Approach: A Review of the Principles and Methods of Fact-First History’, World History Studies 9, no. 2 (2022), 114.

12. Jonathan McGovern, ‘Royal Counsel in Tudor England, 1485–1603’, The Historical Journal 65, no. 5 (2022), 1442–1469. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

13. Jonathan McGovern, ‘The Identity of Robert Parke, Translator of Juan Gonzales de Mendoza’s Historia de China (1585, 1588)’, Notes & Queries 69, no. 3 (2022), 200–202. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

14. Jonathan McGovern, ‘Some Elizabethan Sermons Delivered at St. Paul’s Cross (1597)’, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 73, no. 1 (2022), 114–116. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

15. Jonathan McGovern, ‘The Compters at Poultry and Wood Street in Early Modern London’, The London Journal 46, no. 3 (2021), 249–267. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

16. Jonathan McGovern, ‘Three Tudor Tongue Twisters’, Notes & Queries 68, no. 4 (2021), 392–393. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

17. Jonathan McGovern, ‘The Origin of the Phrase “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”’, Notes and Queries 68, no. 3 (2021), 266. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

18. Jonathan McGovern, ‘Maliverey Catilyn’s “Booke of the Traytors”: A Narrative of the Treason Trials of Anthony Babington and his Confederates’, Derbyshire Archaeological Journal 140 (2020), 139–176.

19. Jonathan McGovern, ‘The Presentation of the Speaker of the Commons in Tudor Parliaments: Pageantry, Persuasion and Management’, Parliamentary History 39, no. 3 (2020), 361–376. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

20. Jonathan McGovern, ‘The Sheriffs of York and Yorkshire in the Tudor Period’, Northern History 57, no. 1 (2020), 60–76. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

21. Jonathan McGovern, ‘Allegory as Counsel: “The Garden Plot” and the Anjou Marriage Negotiations of Queen Elizabeth I’, Studies in Philology 117, no. 4 (2020), 743–768. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

22. Jonathan McGovern, ‘The Development of the Privy Council Oath in Tudor England’, Historical Research 93, no. 260 (2020), 273–285. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

23. Jonathan McGovern, ‘Newly Discovered Notes of a Sermon by Hugh Latimer’, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 71, no. 3 (2020), 596–601. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

24. Jonathan McGovern, ‘Was Elizabethan England Really a Monarchical Republic?’, Historical Research 92, no. 257 (2019), 515–528. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

25. Jonathan McGovern, ‘A New Source Related to Balladry in the Pilgrimage of Grace’, Huntington Library Quarterly 82, no. 2 (2019), 303–313. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

26. Jonathan McGovern, ‘The Political Sermons of Lancelot Andrewes’, The Seventeenth Century 34, no. 1 (2019), 3–25. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

27. Jonathan McGovern, ‘A Herald’s Account of Mary I’s Oration at the Guildhall (1 February 1554)’, Notes & Queries 66, no. 3 (2019), 387–388. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

28. Jonathan McGovern, ‘Nicholas Udall as Author of a Manuscript Answer to the Rebels of Devonshire and Cornwall, 1549’, Notes & Queries 65, no. 1 (2018), 24–25. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

 

Book Reviews

1.      Jonathan McGovern, Review of Religion and Politics in Elizabethan England: The Life of Sir Christopher Hatton, by Neil Younger. The Journal of British Studies 63, no. 1 (2024), 238–239. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

2.      Jonathan McGovern, Review of Marriage, Separation, and Divorce in England, 1500–1700, by K. J. Kesselring and Tim Stretton. The Journal of British Studies 62, no. 3 (2023), 786–787. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

3.      Jonathan McGovern, Review of The Cambridge Connection in Tudor England, edited by John F. McDiarmid and Susan Wabuda. The Journal of British Studies 62, no. 3 (2023), 789–791. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

4.      Jonathan McGovern, Review of Who Ruled Tudor England: Paradoxes of Power, by George Bernard. The Journal of British Studies 62, no. 2 (2023), 505–506. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

5.      Jonathan McGovern, Review of Roger Ascham and his Sixteenth-Century World, edited by Lucy R. Nicholas and Ceri Law. The Journal of British Studies 61, no. 4 (2022), 1028–1030. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

6.      Jonathan McGovern, Review of Star Chamber Matters: An Early Modern Court and its Records, edited by K. J. Kesselring and Natalie Mears. Parliamentary History 41, no. 2 (2022), 370372. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.

7.      Jonathan McGovern, Review of “A Marvel to Behold”: Gold and Silver at the Court of Henry VIII, by Timothy Schroder. Renaissance and Reformation 44, no. 2 (2021), 271–273. Indexed in the A&HCI. Sole author.