Dr Tim Wade
I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at Warwick. Prior to joining Warwick, I was a lecturer and junior research fellow at the University of Oxford. My primary research interests lie in the history of the book; early modern readers and marginalia; Renaissance humanism and reformation scholarship; Erasmus; Christian Hebraism; and the Republic of Letters. These themes are reflected in my first monograph on the reception of Erasmus in early modern England, as seen through the eyes of his readers. This will be published by Brill in .
My current project, England鈥檚 Roads to Renaissance, traces the activities of English scholars across mainland Europe between 1490 and 1550. It asks where, why and how English humanists made and sustained contact with their European peers, and why some encounters failed while others succeeded. I am particularly interested in how different forums for encounters such as printing shops, universities and diplomatic missions affected the transmission of ideas, and how the reformation reshaped learned culture. In the course of this project I will be drawing on overlooked letters, travel accounts, marginalia and printed books to reveal the full extent of English involvement in European scholarly life.
Recent publications include:
- '', European History Yearbook, 23 (2026), 59-80.
- 'A Piety Fit for Kings? Henry VIII, Thomas Cranmer and Erasmus鈥檚 Enarratio in Psalmum XXXIII', The Library, 27:2 (2026), 176-88.
- 'Sacred Proverbs in the Shadow of Erasmus: The Transformations of Polydore Vergil's Proverbs in Print, 1498-1550', Erasmus Studies, 46:1 (2026), 31-58.
- '', History Today (March 2026)
- 'Nicholas Udall's Copy of Polydore Vergil', Notes & Queries (2025)
- 鈥楶ole and Humanism in Padua鈥�, in James Willoughby (ed.), Reformation Cardinal: Reginald Pole in Sixteenth-Century Italy & England (Oxford, 2023), 15-26. Published in conjunction with the Lambeth Palace Library exhibition: 鈥楻eformation Cardinal鈥� (October 2023-December 2023).
- 鈥楻ichard Pace and the Psalms鈥�, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 73:1 (2022), 57-78
Teaching and Office Hours:
I teach various early modern and research skill classes for the CSR and the History Faculty.
For students of 'Europe in the Making', my office hour falls on Fridays 10.30am-11.30am in FAB 3.36.