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    2. Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017; paperback 2025).

    1. Corpus Lives: A Biographical History of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1352-2002 (with Peter Martland, Cambridge: Corpus Christi College, 2003).

    2. The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Images of Iberia (with Piers Baker-Bates, Farnham: Ashgate, 2015; paperback 2018).

    3. Cultures of Voting in Pre-Modern Europe (with Serena Ferente and Lovro Kuncevic, London: Routledge, 2018).

    4. A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal (with Mary Hollingsworth and Arnold Witte, Leiden: Brill, 2020).

    5. The Cambridge History of the Papacy (with Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Robert Ventresca, and Melodie Eichbauer, 3 vols., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025).

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    2. ‘Governor and Government in Sixteenth-Century Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome 77 (2009): 257–72.

    3. ‘The Conclaves of 1590 to 1592: An Electoral Crisis of the Early Modern Papacy?’, The Sixteenth Century Journal 44 (2013): 391–410.

    4. ‘Antonio de Fuenmayor’s Life of Pius V: a pope in early modern Spanish Historiography’, Renaissance Studies 32 (2018): 183–200.

    5. ‘The Jesuit Giambattista Tolomei (1653–1726): Cardinal and Philosopher’, Journal of Jesuit Studies 7 (2020): 570–91.

    6. ‘Papal Rome in Lockdown: Proximities, Temporalities, and Emotions during the Im/mobility of the Conclave’, I Tatti Studies 24 (2021): 291–309.

    7. ‘Ringing in the Papal Restoration: Francesco Cancellieri’s treatise on the Capitoline Bells (1806)’, Modern Italy 27 (2022): 207–23.

    8. ‘Gaspar Sanz’s Ecos sagrados de la fama gloriosa de Innocencio XI (1681) and Clerical Cultures of Diversion in Baroque Spain’, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 73 (2022): 783–813.

    9. ‘Dressing Pope Francis: his public costume between pontifical, Jesuit, and Franciscan traditions’, Journal of Jesuit Studies 11 (2024): 185–203.

    10. ‘Priests and their Wigs in Eighteenth-Century Rome’, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 93 (2024), early view online (20pp).

    11. ‘The Papal Tiara in Sacred Historiography’,The Catholic Historical Review 110 (2024), 630–55.

    12. With Michael D. Barbezat, ‘The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney’, Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies 269 (2025), forthcoming (49pp).

    1. ‘Rome as a “Spanish Avignon”? The Spanish Faction and the Monarchy of Philip II’, in Piers Baker-Bates and Miles Pattenden (eds.), The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Images of Iberia (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), 65–84.

    2. ‘From Ambassador to Cardinal? Francisco de Vargas at the papal court (1559-63)’, in Diana Carrió-Invernizzi (ed.), Embajadores culturales. Transferencias y lealtades de la diplomacia española de la edad moderna (Madrid: Editorial UNED, 2016), 139–56.

    3. ‘Cultures of Secrecy in Pre-Modern Papal Elections’, in Serena Ferente, Lovro Kuncevic and Miles Pattenden (eds.), Cultures of Voting in Pre-Modern Europe (London: Routledge, 2018), 94–112.

    4. ‘The Roman Curia’, in Pamela Jones, Simon Ditchfield, and Barbara Wisch (eds.), A Companion to Early Modern Rome: 1492-1692 (Brill: Leiden, 2019), 44–59.

    5. ‘Introduction’, co-written with Mary Hollingsworth and Arnold Witte, in Mary Hollingsworth, Miles Pattenden and Arnold Witte (eds.), A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 1–6.

    6. ‘The College of Cardinals’, in Mary Hollingsworth, Miles Pattenden and Arnold Witte (eds.), A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 23–39.

    7. ‘Cardinals and the non-Christian World’, in Mary Hollingsworth, Miles Pattenden and Arnold Witte (eds.), A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 375–92.

    8. ‘The Early Modern Historiography of Early Modern Cardinals’, co-written with Arnold Witte, in Mary Hollingsworth, Miles Pattenden and Arnold Witte (eds.), A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 435–52.

    9. ‘The Early Modern Cardinal: An Historical Appraisal’, in Piers Baker-Bates and Irene Brooke (eds.), Portrait Cultures of the Early Modern Cardinal (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021), 43–65.

    10. ‘Regime Change in Papal Rome: Pius IV and the Carafa, 1559-61’, in Alexander Lee and Brian Maxson (eds.), The Culture and Politics of Regime Change in Italy, 1494-1559 (London: Routledge, 2022), 75–93.

    11. ‘Locating the Renaissance Curia, c.1420–c.1530’, in Donald S. Prudlo (ed.), A Companion to the History of the Roman Curia (Leiden: Brill, 2025), 227–44.

    12. ‘Inventing the Early Modern Papacy: Four Paradigms’, in Carolina Armenteros and Francisco Javier Ramón Solans (eds.), Inventing the Modern Papacy (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2025), in press.

    13. ‘General Introduction,’ co-written with Melodie Eichbauer, Joëlle Rollo-Koster, and Robert Ventresca in The Cambridge History of the Papacy, Vol. I: The Two Swords (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025), 1–31.

    14. ‘Papal Elections and Resignations’, in Melodie Eichbauer, Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Miles Pattenden, and Robert Ventresca (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Papacy, Vol. I: The Two Swords (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025), 477–98.

    15. ‘The College of Cardinals,’ in Melodie Eichbauer, Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Miles Pattenden, and Robert Ventresca (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Papacy, Vol. II: The Governance of the Church (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025), 182–204.

    16. ‘Catholic Masculinities’, in Tim Reinke-Williams (ed.), The Routledge History of Masculinity in Early Modern Europe (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2025).

    17. ‘Clericalism and Sexual Abuse: An Historical and Historiographical Perspective’, in Philip McCosker, Luigi Gioia, and Travis LaCouter (eds.), Clericalism and Sexuality: Interdisciplinary Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2025).

    1. ‘Thomas F. Mayer (1951-2014) and the Roman Inquisition’, Reviews in Religion and Theology 23 (2016): 101–08.

    2. ‘Priests and their Bodies after Trent: (Dis)abilities, Masculinities, Sexualities’, The Journal of Religious History 48 (2024): 215–27.

    1. Lezlie Knox, Creating Clare of Assisi. Female Franciscan identities in later medieval Italy, in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 61 (2010): 177.

    2. Johannes Meier (ed.), Klöster und Landschaft. Das kulturräumliche Erbe der Orden, in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 61 (2010): 824–25. 


    3. M.E. Bratchel, Medieval Lucca and the Evolution of the Renaissance State, David Peterson and Daniel Bornstein (eds.), Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance
Italy: Essays in Honour of John M. Najemy, and Alick M. McLean, Prato: Architecture, Piety, and Political Identity in a Tuscan City, in Urban History 38 (2011): 184–86. 


    4. James Corkery and Thomas Worcester (eds.), The Papacy since 1500: From Italian Prince to Universal Pastor, in History 95 (2012): 123–25. 


    5. Irene Fosi, Papal Justice: Subjects and Courts in the Papal State, in The Medieval Review (2012), online. 


    6. Adam Patrick Robinson, The Career of Cardinal Giovanni Morone (1509-1580): Between Council and Inquisition, in The Catholic Historical Review 99 (2013): 558–59. 


    7. Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Morte e elezione del papa: Norme, riti e conflitti. 1. Il medioevo, in The English Historical Review 130 (2015): 422–24.

    8. June Mecham, Sacred Communities, Shared Devotions: Gender, Material Culture and Monasticism in Late Medieval Germany, in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 66 (2015): 872–73.

    9. Christopher Celenza, Machiavelli: A Portrait, in The Sixteenth Century Journal 46 (2015): 551–52.

    10. Rebecca Messbarger, Christopher Johns, and Philip Gavitt (eds.), Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science and Spirituality, in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 45 (2016): 614–15.

    11. Keith Howard, The Reception of Machiavelli in Early Modern Spain, in the Hispanic Research Journal 17 (2016): 554–55.

    12. Annemarie Jordan Gschwend and K.J.P. Lowe (eds.), The Global City: On the Streets of Renaissance Lisbon, in The Sixteenth Century Journal 47 (2016): 1087–88.

    13. Harald E. Braun and Jesús Pérez-Magallón (eds.), The Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque: Complex Identities in the Atlantic World, in Renaissance Studies 31 (2017): 668–70. 


    14. Stephen Andes and Julia Young (eds.), Local Church, Global Church: Catholic Activism in Latin America from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II, in Reviews in Religion and Theology 24 (2017): 423–25.

    15. David d’Avray, Papacy, Monarchy and Marriage, 860-1600 and Dissolving Royal Marriages: A Documentary History, in The English Historical Review 132 (2017): 1275–78.

    16. Julie Byrne, The Other Catholics: Remaking America’s Largest Religion, in Reviews in Religion and Theology 24 (2017): 662–65.

    17. Fabrizio d’Avenia, La Chiesa del re: Monarchia e Papato nella Sicilia spagnola (secc. XVI–XVII), in The American Historical Review 122 (2017): 1696–97.

    18. A. Edward Siecienski, The Papacy and the Orthodox: Sources and History of a Debate, in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 46 (2017): 621–22.

    19. Massimo Rospocher, Il papa guerriero. Giulio II nello spazio pubblico europeo, in The English Historical Review 132 (2017): 1567–68.

    20. Thomas Albert Howard, The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age, in Reviews in Religion and Theology 25 (2018): 85–87.

    21. John Hunt, The Vacant See in Early Modern Rome, in Renaissance Studies 32 (2018): 506–08.

    22. Kimberley Lynn and Erin Rowe (eds.), The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches, in Renaissance Studies 32 (2018): 817–18.

    23. Felicia Rosu, Elective Monarchy in Transylvania and Poland-Lithuania, 1569–1587, in The American Historical Review 124 (2019): 775–76.

    24. David Kertzer, The Pope who would be King: the exile of Pius IX and the emergence of Modern Europe, in Reviews in Religion and Theology 26 (2019): 267–68.

    25. Emily O’Brien, The Commentaries of Pope Pius II (1458–1464) and the Crisis of the Fifteenth-Century Papacy, in Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 53 (2020): 394–97.

    26. Pascale Rihouet and Jennifer DeSilva (eds.), Eternal Ephemera: The Papal Possesso and its Legacies in Early Modern Rome, in Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 44 (2021): 229–31.

    27. Nelson Minnich and Michael Root (eds.), Martin Luther and the shaping of the Catholic Tradition, in Cristianesimo nella storia 43 (2022): 982–83.

    28. Emily Michelson, Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance, in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 74 (2023): 664–66.

    29. Celeste McNamara, The Bishop’s Burden: Reforming the Catholic Church in Early Modern Italy, in Church History 92 (2023): 725–26.

    30. Carlos Eire, They Flew: A History of the Impossible, in The Journal of Religious History 48 (2024): 76–77.

    1. ‘The Carafa Trial (1560-1561)’, in Luca Al Sabbagh, Domizia Weber and Daniele Santarelli (eds.), Eretici, dissidenti, inquisitori. Per un dizionario storico mediterraneo: volume I (Rome: Aracne, 2016), 189–90.

    2. ‘The Accolti Conspiracy (1564)’, in Luca Al Sabbagh, Domizia Weber and Daniele Santarelli (eds.), Eretici, dissidenti, inquisitori. Per un dizionario storico mediterraneo: volume I (Rome: Aracne, 2016), 191–92.

    3. ‘Francisco Vargas’, in Luca Al Sabbagh, Domizia Weber and Daniele Santarelli (eds.), Eretici, dissidenti, inquisitori. Per un dizionario storico mediterraneo: volume II (Rome: Aracne, 2017), 111–13.

    1. ‘Research Report (Rome Scholarship): The Politics of Nepotism in Sixteenth-Century Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome 76 (2008), 318–19.

    2. ‘The Dangers of Elevating Social Ethos to Religious Orthodoxy’, Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights on the Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 and Related Bills, 15th December 2021, co-authored with Timothy Jones and Michael D. Barbezat.

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