About the Author

Dr Liam Temple 
 
Biography: 

Liam Temple

I was born and raised in Darlington, attending Carmel RC College before studying at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at Northumbria University, Newcastle. My research is especially concerned with mysticism and mystical experience in both Catholic and Protestant groups in seventeenth century England. It focuses on examples of how mysticism encouraged conversation and collaboration across confessional boundaries in the period. My wider research interests include religious radicalism, nonconformity, enthusiasm and polemical controversies concerning religion in the seventeenth century. I can be contacted at liamtemple@hotmail.co.uk. 

I have lectured at several North East universities in recent years. In 2014-15 I was an Associate Tutor at Northumbria University, becoming an Associate Lecturer in 2015-16. Before this in 2013-14 I was an Associate Lecturer at the University of Sunderland. 

Education:

PhD in History, Northumbria University, 2016.
MRes History (Distinction), Northumbria University, 2012.
BA (Hons) History (1st Class), Northumbria University, 2011.

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2015 – )

Publications: 

Monographs:

Mysticism in Early Modern England (Forthcoming, Boydell & Brewer 2018/19).

Book Chapters: 

‘Anglicans and Mysticism’, in R. Rittgers and V. Evener (eds.), Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe (Forthcoming, Brill, 2018).

Journals: 

‘The Mysticism of Augustine Baker, OSB: A Reconsideration’ forthcoming in Reformation and Renaissance Review.

‘“Have we any mother Juliana’s among us?”: The Multiple Identities of Julian of Norwich in Restoration England’, British Catholic History, Volume 33, Issue 3 (2017), pp. 383-400.

‘Returning the English “mystics” to their medieval milieu: Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and Bridget of Sweden’, Women’s Writing, Vol. 23, No. 2 (2016), pp. 141-158.

Book Reviews: 

‘Mannock Strickland (1683–1744): Agent to English convents in Flanders. Letters and accounts from exile, ed. Richard G. Williams’. Archives (Forthcoming, 2017).

‘Jane Lead in her Transnational Context, ed. Ariel Hessayon’. Reviews in History. (Published online November 2016).

‘Women Prophets and Radical Protestantism in the British Atlantic World, 1640-1740 by Elizabeth Bouldin’, History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (Published online May 2016).

‘Mysticism and Reform, 1400-1750, eds. Sara S. Poor and Nigel Smith’, British Catholic History, Vol. 33, No. 1 (2016), pp. 151-53.

‘The Varieties of Vernacular Mysticism (1350-1550), by Bernard McGinn’, Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures, Vol. 39 (2013), pp. 243-47.