Carl B. Estabrook

Title: Associate Professor of History
Office: 207 Carson Hall
Phone: 646-3138
Departmental Web Site: Carl B. Estabrook

Medieval and Renaissance Courses Taught

• History 49: Early Modern England, 1485-1780
• History 96.2: Topics in British History

Areas of Research Interest

General

• Culture and society in the British Isles, c. 1450-1780

Specific

• English cathedral cities, c. 1450-1700
• Religious culture in the British Isles, c. 1450-1700
• Lay/clerical relations in the British Isles, c. 1450-1700
• Urban/rural interaction in the British Isles, c. 1450-1780
• Print culture in England, c. 1480-1730
• The British Atlantic world, c. 1480-1780

Important, Recent, and Major Publications

• Urbane and Rustic England: Cultural Ties and Social Spheres in the Provinces, 1660-1780.
• "Ritual, space and authority in seventeenth-century English cathedral cities," The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 32, No. 4 (Spring 2002).
• "In the Midst of ceremony: cathedral and community in seventeenth-century Wells," Amussen and Kishlansky, eds. Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern England.
• Book in progress: Cathedral and Community in England, 1580-1700.