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David Como

Associate Professor of Early Modern British History

E-mail: dcomo@stanford.edu

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At Stanford Since 2002

Ph.D. Princeton 1999

Research Interests

  • Puritanism, Politics
  • English Revolution
  • History of print

Courses Taught

  • 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

Publications

Books

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

Articles

  • “Radical Puritanism, c. 1558-1660” in J. Coffey and P. Lim, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
  •  “Secret Printing, the Crisis of 1640, and the Origins of Civil-War Radicalism,” Past and Present, 196 (2007).
  •  “An Unattributed Pamphlet of William Walwyn: New Light on the Prehistory of the Leveller Movement,” The Huntington Library Quarterly, 69 (2006).
  • "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).