Academic publications
A record of published books, edited volumes, journal articles, book chapters, and review articles.
Pius IV and the Fall of the Carafa: Nepotism and Papal Authority in Counter-Reformation Rome
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White Smoke: A History of the Papacy Through Conclaves
Bloomsbury, 2027, in press.
Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450–1700
Oxford University Press, 2017; paperback 2025.
Pius IV and the Fall of the Carafa: Nepotism and Papal Authority in Counter-Reformation Rome
Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edited Books
The Cambridge History of the Papacy, 3 vols.
Edited with Melodie Eichbauer, Joëlle Rollo-Koster and Robert Ventresca (Cambridge University Press, 2025).
A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal
Edited with Mary Hollingsworth and Arnold Witte (Brill, 2020).
Cultures of Voting in Pre-Modern Europe
Edited with Serena Ferente and Lovro Kuncevic (Routledge, 2018).
The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Images of Iberia
Edited with Piers Baker-Bates (Ashgate, 2015).
Corpus Lives: A Biographical History of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1352–2002
Edited with Peter Martland (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 2003).
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Academic Freedom and the Future of Catholic Universities: Notes from ACU
Australian Journal of Law and Religion 7 (2026), 94–106.
Growth and erasure of the papal beard
Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 56 (2025), 189–206.
The cult of gay relics and queer medievalism in 1980s Sydney
Past & Present 269 (2025), 277–324, with Michael D. Barbezat.
Priests and their Wigs in Eighteenth-Century Rome
Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 93 (2024), 272–91.
The Papal Tiara in Sacred Historiography
The Catholic Historical Review 110 (2024), 630–55.
Dressing Pope Francis: his public costume between pontifical, Jesuit, and Franciscan traditions
Journal of Jesuit Studies 11 (2024), 185–203.
Ringing in the Papal Restoration: Francesco Cancellieri’s treatise on the Capitoline Bells (1806)
Modern Italy 27 (2022), 207–23.
Gaspar Sanz’s Ecos sagrados de la fama gloriosa de Inocencio XI (1681) and Clerical Cultures of Diversion in Baroque Spain
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 73 (2022), 783–813.
Papal Rome in Lockdown: Proximities, Temporalities, and Emotions during the Im/mobility of the Conclave
I Tatti Studies 24 (2021), 291–309.
The Jesuit Giambattista Tolomei (1653–1726): Cardinal and Philosopher
Journal of Jesuit Studies 7 (2020), 570–91.
Antonio de Fuenmayor’s Life of Pius V: a pope in early modern Spanish Historiography
Renaissance Studies 32 (2018), 183–200.
The Conclaves of 1590 to 1592: An Electoral Crisis of the Early Modern Papacy?
The Sixteenth Century Journal 44 (2013), 391–410.
Governor and Government in Sixteenth-Century Rome
Papers of the British School at Rome 77 (2009), 257–72.
The Canonisation of Clare of Assisi and Early Franciscan History
Journal of Ecclesiastical History 59 (2008), 208–26.
Book Chapters
Catholic Masculinities
In Tim Reinke-Williams (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in Early Modern Europe (Routledge, 2027).
The UK Sisters in Global Context
In Nina Kane (ed.), Amazing Pride: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in the UK (Palgrave Macmillan, 2027).
Clericalism and Sexual Abuse: A Historical and Historiographical Perspective
In Philip McCosker, Luigi Gioia and Travis LaCouter (eds.), Catholic Priests and the Matter of Sex: New Approaches to Clericalism (Cambridge University Press, 2026), 39–62.
Inventing the Early Modern Papacy: Four Paradigms
In Carolina Armenteros and Francisco Javier Ramón Solans (eds.), Inventing the Modern Papacy (Brill, 2025), 21–52.
Locating the Renaissance Curia, c.1420–c.1530
In Donald S. Prudlo (ed.), A Companion to the History of the Roman Curia (Brill, 2025), 227–44.
The College of Cardinals
In The Cambridge History of the Papacy, Vol. II: Popes and the Church (Cambridge University Press, 2025), 182–204.
Papal Elections and Resignations
In The Cambridge History of the Papacy, Vol. I: Popes and the World (Cambridge University Press, 2025), 477–98.
General Introduction
With Melodie Eichbauer, Joëlle Rollo-Koster and Robert Ventresca, in The Cambridge History of the Papacy, Vol. I (Cambridge University Press, 2025), 1–31.
Regime Change in Papal Rome: Pius IV and the Carafa, 1559–61
In Alexander Lee and Brian Maxson (eds.), The Culture and Politics of Regime Change in Italy, 1494–1559 (Routledge, 2022), 75–93.
The Early Modern Cardinal: An Historical Appraisal
In Piers Baker-Bates and Irene Brooke (eds.), Portrait Cultures of the Early Modern Cardinal (Amsterdam University Press, 2021), 43–65.
The Early Modern Historiography of Early Modern Cardinals
In A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal (Brill, 2020), 435–52, with Arnold Witte.
Cardinals and the non-Christian World
In A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal (Brill, 2020), 375–92.
The College of Cardinals
In A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal (Brill, 2020), 23–39.
The Roman Curia
In A Companion to Early Modern Rome: 1492–1692 (Brill, 2019), 44–59.
Cultures of Secrecy in Pre-Modern Papal Elections
In Cultures of Voting in Pre-Modern Europe (Routledge, 2018), 94–112.
From Ambassador to Cardinal? Francisco de Vargas at the papal court (1559–63)
In Embajadores culturales (Editorial UNED, 2016), 139–56.
Rome as a “Spanish Avignon”? The Spanish Faction and the Monarchy of Philip II
In The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Images of Iberia (Ashgate, 2015), 65–84.
Review Articles
Priests and their Bodies after Trent: (Dis)abilities, Masculinities, Sexualities
The Journal of Religious History 48 (2024), 215–27.
Thomas F. Mayer (1951–2014) and the Roman Inquisition
Reviews in Religion and Theology 23 (2016), 101–08.