Please note that Dr Adam Morton has now left the Warwick History Department.

 

Adam joined the department at Warwick in 2012, having previously worked at the University of York as a Teaching Fellow. His PhD thesis, 'Glaring at Antichrist: Anti-Catholic Imagery in England, c.1530-1685', focuses on visual culture and anti-Catholicism in early modern England, from the Reformation to the Glorious Revolution. Engaging with an emerging field of scholarship on the visual in history, Adam analyses the impact of Protestant suspicion of the visual on cultures of print, and places much of the visual culture of this period with wider frameworks of shame, dishonour and justice.

Adam's research focuses on visual culture and Anti-Catholicism in early modern England, from the Reformation to the Glorious Revolution. Engaging with an emerging field of scholarship on the visual in history, Adam analyses the impact of Protestant suspicion of the visual on cultures of print, and places much of the visual culture of this period with wider frameworks of shame, dishonour and justice.

Handling a wide range of source material - from emblem books to broadside ballads, book illustrations to polemical prints - his research has considered the multiplicity of functions which Anti-Catholic prejudice held in early modern society, being essential to Protestant identity, memory, piety and learning, and suggests that it gripped English national identity for centuries not because it was monolithic, but because its forms were varied, flexible and fecund.

His research has led him to present numerous papers at international conferences, and he is currently working on a number of journal articles for publication. He ultimately hopes to situate the visual within emerging scholarship on ridicule and libelling, and to contribute to the debate concerning the impact of the long Reformation in England.

 

Academic Profile

• 2012-2013: Assistant Professor of Early Modern British Religious and Social History, University of Warwick
• 2010-2012: Teaching Fellow, University of York
• 2011: PhD, University of York
• 2006: MA in Early Modern History, University of York
• 2003: BA (Hons) in History, University of York

Teaching

• HI255 Religion and Religious Change in England (undergraduate second-year option module)
• HI31R The Elizabethan Reformation (undergraduate final-year Special Subject module)
• HI948 English Religious Life in the Sixteenth Century (MA option module)

Research Projects

• Glaring at Antichrist: Printed Images of the Papacy in Early Modern England, c.1530-1685
• Encountering Babylon: English Experiences of Catholicism in Rome and Ireland, c.1550-1750