Murray Gove
Doctoral Student in Literature - Murray’s thesis is entitled ‘Women Prophets, Religion, and Travel in Early Modern England and wider Europe, c. 1600 – 1700’
Research Project Title:
Women Prophets, Religion, and Travel in Early Modern England and wider Europe, c. 1600-1700
Supervisors:
Prof Kate Chedgzoy, Dr Ruth Connolly and Dr Simon Mills
Contact Details:
Email: m.gove@newcastle.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- The prophetic writings of Lady Eleanor Davies (1590-1652), Anna Trapnel (fl. 1642-1660), Katherine Sutton (fl. 1630-1663), Katherine Evans (1618-1692), and Sarah Cheevers (1608-1664)
- Voices of women in non-conformist Christian denominations in early modern England, wider Europe, and colonial North America
- The birth of Anglicanism in Reformation England and the theological and liturgical innovations of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer
- The printing, transmission and use of The Book of Common Prayer throughout the early modern period
- The works of the poet Richard Crashaw (c. 1613-1649)
Brief Outline of Research Project:
In my research I reconsider religion and mobility in texts written by women prophets in seventeenth-century England, as well as the physical and intellectual mobility of these women and the texts themselves. Tracking the journeys of Protestant women across regional and national borders in seventeenth-century England and wider Europe, I examine geographical travel as a crucial vector in the transmission of prophecy via printed and oral culture, as women prophets travelled to publishing houses as well as public forums.
- 'Negotiating Boundaries: Early Modern Texts and Cultures', London Shakespeare Centre & Shakespeare’s Globe Graduate Conference, February 2020
- 'Early Modern Women on Politics and Ethics', University of Gothenburg, October 2023
Research Groups:
- MEMS (Medieval & Early Modern Studies) research group
- NUMPS (Newcastle University Manuscript & Print Studies) research group