Notes on contributors

CLARE EGAN is a lecturer in medieval and early modern literature at Lancaster University. Her research interests include early drama and performance, especially the study of spectatorship, and provincial libels tried at the court of Star Chamber under James I. Other areas of research interest include spatial humanities and ecocriticism. She has recently had articles published in the journals Medieval English Theatre and Early Theatre.

DANIEL GOSLING is the Early Modern Legal Records Specialist at The National Archives of the UK. His PhD thesis (University of Leeds, 2016) examined the use and interpretation of the Statute of Praemunire in the late medieval and early modern periods. His current research includes the legal records relating to the Bear Garden in Elizabethan and Jacobean Southwark, the inns of court, regicides and writ development in the late medieval period.

SIMON HEALY was a researcher at the History of Parliament Trust for many years, writing almost a million words on members of the House of Commons and House of Lords from 1604–29. In 2015, he completed a doctorate on crown finances and the political culture of early Stuart England at Birkbeck College, London, where he worked (for the most part) under the supervision of the late professor Barry Coward. His contribution to this volume derives from an investigation of the money supply in early modern England.

SADIE JARRETT is currently the Economic History Society Postan Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research and is affiliated with Cardiff University. She is an honorary research associate at Bangor University’s Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates, where she completed her PhD. Her doctoral thesis comprised an extended case study of the Salesburys of Rhug and Bachymbyd, an early modern Welsh gentry family from northeast Wales. Her research interests include expressions of gentility in the early modern world, the role of women in gentry families and regional participation in the power structures of the early modern state.

EMILY KADENS is a professor of law at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, USA. Her research focuses primarily on the medieval and early modern history of commercial law and practice. She is currently working on a book on the history of commercial cheating in early modern England.

K. J. KESSELRING is a professor of history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. She has published three books that drew, to varying degrees, on Star Chamber records, including most recently Making Murder Public: Homicide in Early Modern England (2019). In addition to writing a set of articles on subjects such as felony forfeiture and coverture, she has also edited or co-edited several volumes of essays and documents, including Star Chamber Reports: BL Harley MS 2143 (List and Index Society, Special Series 57, 2018).

LOUIS A. KNAFLA is professor emeritus at the University of Calgary and a legal historian of early modern England and western Canada. His most recent publication is ‘Legal-historical writing for the Canadian prairies: past, present, future’, in Canada’s Legal Pasts: Looking Forward, Looking Back (Calgary, 2020), pp. 271–96. Volume seven of his series Kent at Law 1602 on Courts of Equity – The Equity Side of Exchequer, is in press.

NATALIE MEARS is an associate professor (reader) in Tudor and early Stuart history at Durham University. She has published widely on Elizabethan politics and religion, including Queenship and Public Discourse in the Elizabethan Realms (2005), and was co-investigator on the AHRC-funded project, ‘British state prayers’, acting as lead editor for the first of four volumes, National Worship (2013). She was host and co-organizer of the conference ‘Star Chamber and its records’ held in Durham in July 2019.

HILLARY TAYLOR is a temporary lecturer in early modern British social and economic history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Jesus College. She is finishing a book on social relations and the class politics of language and is beginning a new project on workplace violence, both focused on early modern England. She received her PhD from Yale University in 2016.

IAN WILLIAMS is an associate professor in the Faculty of Laws, University College London. His research focuses on early modern English law, ranging from the history of legal ideas to book history and more political topics.

DEBORAH YOUNGS is a professor of history at Swansea University with research interests in the social, legal and cultural histories of late medieval England and Wales. She is currently engaged on a series of projects relating to women’s litigation and with a specific focus on Star Chamber. She is also co-editing (with Teresa Phipps) a collection of essays entitled Litigating Women: Gender and Justice in Courts of Law, c.1300–c.1750, to be published by Routledge.