David Como

Assistant Professor of Early Modern England

At Stanford Since 2002

Ph.D Princeton 1999

• Puritanism, Politics
• English Revolution
• History of print
  

• Heresy, Witchcraft and Social Change in Early Modern England
• Revolutionary England
• Religion and Politics in Early Modern England
• Yorkist-Tudor England
• Political Thought in Early Modern Britain
  
  
  

Books:

• Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in pre-Civil-War England Stanford, 2004.

Articles:

• "The Burning of Edward Wightman: Puritanism, Prelacy and the Politics of Heresy in Early Modern England," English Historical Review,forthcoming. Co-written with Ian Atherton, Keele University.
• "The Politics of Predestination in Laud's London," Historical Journal, 46 (2003).
• "Puritans, Predestination and the Construction of Orthodoxy in Early Seventeenth Century England," in P. Lake and M. Questier, eds., Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, c. 1560-1642 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2000).
• David R. Como and Peter Lake, "'Orthodoxy' and its Discontents: Dispute Settlement and the Production of 'Consensus' in the London (Puritan) 'Underground,'" Journal of British Studies, 39 (2000).
• "The Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Traske and the Kingdom of Christ: The Persistence of Radical Puritanism in Early Stuart England," in Michael MacDonald, Muriel McClendon and Joseph Ward, eds., Protestant Identities: Religion, Society, and Self-Fashioning in Post-Reformation England (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).
• David R. Como and Peter Lake, "Puritans, Antinomians and Laudians in Caroline London: The Strange Case of Peter Shaw in its Contexts," Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 50 (1999). Document with an extended commentary.
• "Women, Prophecy and Authority in Early Stuart Puritanism," Huntington Library Quarterly, 61 (1998).