Dr Tim Wade

I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at Warwick. Prior to joining Warwick, I was a lecturer and junior research fellow at the University of Oxford. My primary research interests lie in the history of the book; early modern readers and marginalia; Renaissance humanism and reformation scholarship; Erasmus; Christian Hebraism; and the Republic of Letters.

My current project, England’s Roads to Renaissance, traces the activities of English scholars across mainland Europe between 1490 and 1550. It asks where, why and how English humanists made and sustained contact with their European peers, and why some encounters failed while others succeeded. I am particularly interested in how different forums for encounters such as printing shops, universities and diplomatic missions affected the transmission of ideas. In the course of this project I will be drawing on overlooked letters, travel accounts, marginalia and printed books to reveal the full extent of English involvement in European scholarly life.

Recent publications include:

‘Pole and Humanism in Padua’, in James Willoughby (ed.), Reformation Cardinal: Reginald Pole in Sixteenth-Century Italy & England (Oxford, 2023), pp. 15-26. Published in conjunction with the Lambeth Palace Library exhibition: ‘Reformation Cardinal’ (October 2023-December 2023).
‘Richard Pace and the Psalms’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 73:1 (2022), pp. 57-78.