Faculty members

Dr Richard Rex

Reader in Reformation History and Fellow and Tutor, Queens' College

Courses taught this academic year

• Second year course B7 (Reform and Renewal in Christian History)
• MPhil Seminars on Issues and Methods in the History of Christianity

Research interests

Dr Rex is currently conducting research into aspects of the English Reformation under Henry VIII, and has research interests in late medieval and sixteenth-century theology and Church history especially in the reign of Henry VIII.

He would be happy to supervise doctoral or magisterial research into almost any aspect of religious change in sixteenth-century England or France, as well as into Wycliffe's theology; Lollardy; or Christian humanism.

Publications

Richard Rex's The Tudors is published in a new edition (Amberley, 2009)

The second edition of Richard Rex's Henry VIII and the English Reformation is published by Palgrave on 7 April 2006. This updated edition emphasises the personal role of Henry VIII in driving religious change, and includes an important new chapter on the interaction of religion and politics in early Tudor England.

• 'The Friars in the English Reformation', in The Beginnings of English Protestantism, ed. P. Marshall and A.G. Ryrie (Cambridge: CUP, 2002), pp. 38-59
• The Lollards (Basingstoke & London: Macmillan, 2002)
• Henry VIII's ecclesiastical and religious foundations (co-written with Colin Armstrong), Historical Research 75 (2002), pp. 390-407
• 'Redating Henry VIII's The Glasse of the Truthe', The Library, 7th series 4 (2003), pp. 16-27
• Elizabeth I (Stroud: Tempus, 2003)
• 'Lady Margaret Beaufort and her Professorship: 1502-1559', in Patrick Collinson, Richard Rex, and Graham Stanton, Lady Margaret Beaufort and her Professors of Divinity at Cambridge, 1502-1649 (Cambridge: CUP, 2003), pp. 19-56
• 'New Light on Tyndale and Lollardy', Reformation 8 (2003), pp. 143-171
• The Tudors (rev. edn. Stroud: Tempus, 2003)

Additional information

Dr Rex is Director of the MPhil in Theology and Religious Studies for the academic year 2006-7.

Contact details

Faculty of Divinity
West Road
Cambridge CB3 9BS

Tel.: +44 1223 763034
Fax: +44 1223 763003
Email: rawr1@cam.ac.uk