Jonathan Willis

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PhD projects

Dr Willis is interested in supervising research projects on most aspects of the social, cultural and religious history of reformation-era England, especially concerning questions of theology, popular belief, religious practice, puritanism, parish religion, material and musical cultures, and religious education.

Research activity per year

7 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
5 Book/Film/Article review
4 Chapter
3 Book
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- 3 Article

22 results

2024
‘Strange enthusiastical exhortations’: Distress, Religious Identity, and the English Reformation
Willis, J., 7 Jul 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Ecclesiastical History.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2023
From rejection to reconciliation: Protestantism and the image in early modern England
Willis, J. & Hamling, T., 4 Dec 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of British Studies.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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2017
The reformation of the Decalogue: religious identity and the Ten Commandments in England, c.1485-c.1625
Willis, J., Oct 2017, Cambridge University Press. 404 p. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
4 Citations (Scopus)
2016

Ecclesiastical Sources
Willis, J., 2 Jun 2016, Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources. Willis, J. & Sangha, L. (eds.). Routledge, (Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Introduction: Sin and Salvation in Reformation England
Willis, J., 18 Mar 2016, Sin and Salvation in Reformation England. Willis, J. (ed.). Farnham: Ashgate, p. 1-22 (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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136 Downloads (Pure)
Introduction, Dying, Death, Burial and Commemoration
Willis, J. & Tingle, E., 18 Mar 2016, Dying, Death, Burial and Commemoration in Reformation Europe. Willis, J. & Tingle, E. (eds.). Ashgate, p. 1-24 (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Open Access
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314 Downloads (Pure)
Introduction: Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources
Sangha, L. & Willis, J., 19 May 2016, Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources. Willis, J. & Sangha, L. (eds.). Routledge, (Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
'Moral Arithmetic' or Creative Accounting? (Re-)defining Sin through the Ten Commandments
Willis, J., 18 Mar 2016, Sin and Salvation in Reformation England. Willis, J. (ed.). Farnham: Ashgate, p. 69-86 (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Open Access
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1 Citation (Scopus)

99 Downloads (Pure)
2015

Music and religious identity in Elizabethan London: the value (and limitations) of the churchwardens’ accounts
Willis, J., 27 Nov 2015, Views from the Parish: Churchwardens' Accounts c.1500-c.1800. Foster, A. & Hitchman, V. (eds.). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 179-199 19 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

1 Downloads (Pure)
Sin and Salvation in Reformation England
Willis, J. (Editor), 2015, Farnham: Ashgate. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2014

The Decalogue, Patriarchy and Domestic Religious Education in Reformation England
Willis, J., May 2014, Religion and the household. Doran, J., Methuen, C. & Walsham, A. (eds.). Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, (Studies in Church History).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
2013

Protestant Worship and the Discourse of Music in Reformation England
Willis, J., Mears, N. (Editor) & Ryrie, A. (Editor), 2013, Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain. Mears, N. & Ryrie, A. (eds.). Farnham: Ashgate, p. 131-150 (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

3 Citations (Scopus)

2 Downloads (Pure)
Repurposing the Decalogue in Reformation England
Willis, J., 2013, The Influence of the Decalogue: Historical, Theological and Cultural Perspectives. Markl, D. (ed.). Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, p. 190-204 (Hebrew Bible Monographs; no. 58).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

3 Downloads (Pure)
2010

'A Pottle of Ayle on Whyt Sonday': Everyday Objects and the Musical Culture of the Post-Reformation Parish Church
Willis, J. & Richardson, C. (Editor), 1 Sept 2010, Everyday Objects: Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture and its Meanings. Hamling, T. & Richardson, C. (eds.). Farnham: Ashgate, p. 211-220 10 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England: Discourses, Sites and Identities
Willis, J., May 2010, Farnham: Ashgate. 314 p. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
36 Citations (Scopus)
Duffy, Eamon, Fires of Faith: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), Xiv + 249 Pp., £19.99/$28.50, Isbn 978 0 300 15216 6
Willis, J., 1 May 2010, In: Journal of Early Modern History. 14, 3, p. 273-275 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Nature, Music, and the Reformation in England
Willis, J., 2010, Gods Bounty? The Churches and the Natural World. Clarke, P. & Claydon, T. (eds.). Boydell & Brewer, Vol. 46. p. 184-193 9 p. (Studies in Church History).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Review of...Alexandra Kess, Johann Sleidan and the Protestant Vision of History
Willis, J., 1 Jan 2010, In: Renaissance Studies. 25, 2, p. 338-339 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Review of... James Anthony Froude and Eamon Duffy, J.A. Froude's The Reign of Mary Tudor: Introduced and Selected by Eamon Duffy
Willis, J., 1 Jan 2010, In: Reformation and Renaissance Review. 12, 2-3, p. 255-356 102 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
The Reformation in Rhyme: Sternhold, Hopkins and the English Metrical Psalter, 1547–1603 – By Beth Quitslund
Willis, J., Jan 2010, In: History. 95, 317, p. 120-121 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
2009
'By These Means the Sacred Discourses Sink More Deeply into Minds of Men': Music and Education in Elizabethan England
Willis, J., Jul 2009, In: History. 94, 315, p. 294-309 16 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
10 Citations (Scopus)
2007

Review of...Hyun-Ah Kim, HUmanism and the Reform of Sacred Music: John Merbecke the Orator and the Booke of Common Praier Noted (1550)
Willis, J., 1 Jan 2007, In: Reformation and Renaissance Review. 9, 3, p. 345-346 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

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