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Sophie Aldred is a Lecturer in Early Modern Christianities at the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford. She specializes in the religious, cultural, and intellectual history of Western Europe and North America from the Reformation to the late seventeenth century, with particular emphasis on reading practices, confessional identity, and public life in early modern England.
Her research integrates methodologies from the history of the book, cultural and intellectual history (including historical sociology of knowledge), gender history, and the religious and political history of the seventeenth century. She holds a BA and MSt in History from Oxford and completed her PhD in 2024 under the supervision of George Southcombe and Grant Tapsell.
Recent work focuses on Lord John Robartes and the library at Lanhydrock, exploring intersections of medicine, marriage, masculinity, and political dynamics. Before her current role, she was a Stipendiary Lecturer in Early Modern History at Merton College, Oxford.
Teaching includes courses such as Early Modern Christianity 1500-1648 and MSt Ecclesiastical History.
