Dr Astrid Stilma

Research Projects

• Being Human: Kent - Women Making Sense. Researcher(s): Dr Susan Civale, Mrs Helen Wright, Ms Peggy Riley, Mr William Hill, Dr Sonia Overall, Mr Jon Schwochert, Dr Rachael Stone, Dr Astrid Stilma. [Project]
• Canterbury's Aphra Behn. Researcher(s): Dr Astrid Stilma, Mrs Helen Wright. [Project]
• Mental Illness as Disability in Early Modern England: using textual and material evidence to study the perceptions of and care for the mentally ill.. Researcher(s): MX Angie Majnic-Lane. Supervisor(s): Dr Astrid Stilma, Dr Dave Hitchcock, Professor Leonie Hicks. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Moyses was but a jugler: Atheism, Republicanism, and Religion in the works of Christopher Marlowe. Researcher(s): Mr Daniel Harvey. Supervisor(s): Dr Astrid Stilma, Professor Jackie Eales. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• PIETY, PATRONAGE AND PROPERTY-HOLDING: WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL CANTERBURY AND ITS HINTERLAND, c.1150–c.1300. Researcher(s): Ms Tracey Dessoy. Supervisor(s): Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, Dr Astrid Stilma, Professor Thomas Hennessey. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The Letter Book of Gabriel Harvey C.1573 – 1580. An Examination of a Cambridge Scholar’s Epistolary Practices with a Focus on Early Modern Social Context and the Material Implications of Hand Written Correspondence.. Researcher(s): Mr Anthony Heathfield. Supervisor(s): Dr Claire Bartram, Dr Astrid Stilma. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]

• William Alexander, King James, and neo-stoic advice to princes in The Monarchick Tragedies Stilma, A., (2013), James VI and I, Literature and Scotland: Tides of Change, 1567-1625. Leuven: Peeters. [Book chapter]
• A king translated: the writings of James VI & I and their interpretation in the Low Countries, 1593-1603 Stilma, A.. Aldershot: Ashgate. [Book]
• Tyrants and translations: Dutch interpretations of George Buchanan's political thought Stilma, A., (2012), George Buchanan: Political Thought in Early Modern Britain and Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate. [Book chapter]
• "If angels fight": angels, demons and political action in two early Jacobean history plays Stilma, A., (2011): Berghahn Journals. [Journal article]
• "As Warriouris in Ane Camp": the image of King James VI as a Crusader Stilma, A., (2010), The Apparelling of Truth: Literature and Literary Culture in the Reign of James VI: A Festschrift for Roderick J. Lyall. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Book chapter]
• ''The Catalogue of Good Kings'': Instructing King James VI&I in his English Heritage Stilma, A., Role and Rule: History and Power on Stage. [Conference paper]
• King James as a religious writer Stilma, A., (01 Apr 2009), Literature and the Scottish Reformation. Farnham, UK: Ashgate. [Book chapter]
• The international currency of ideas: Anglo-Dutch translation and the Amsterdam book trade Stilma, A., Intellectual Exchange Between Britain and the Continent. [Conference paper]
• Justifying war: Dutch translations of Scottish books around 1600 Stilma, A., Mighty Europe 1400-1700: Writing an Early Modern Continent. Bern: Peter Lang. [Book chapter]
• The Battle of Lepanto: the introduction of James VI of Scotland to the Dutch Stilma, A., James VI and I: Ideas, Authority and Government. Aldershot: Ashgate. [Book chapter]