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Paul Seaver

Professor of Early Modern English History, Emeritus

E-mail: seaver@stanford.edu

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Ph.D., Harvard University; B.A., Haverford College

Awards

  • Danforth Fellow, 1955-60
  • Guggenheim Fellow, 1970-71
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Grant, 1976
  • Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1981
  • British Council Prize in the Humanities, 1986 (for Wallington's World)
  • Dinkelspiel Award for Outstanding Service to Undergraduate Education,  1987
  • Fellow of Early Modern Studies (awarded for “significant contribution to the advancement of scholarship and learning” by the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 1998)

University Service

  • Allen D. Christensen Professor of Western Culture, Professor of Early Modern English History
  • Director of Culture, Ideas, and Values Program

Publications

  • The Puritan Lectureships 1560-1662 (Stanford, 1970).
  • Seventeenth Century England, ed. and intro. (New York, 1976).          
  • "Le Puritanisme:  Communauté et Continuité dans L'Angleterre Pre-Revolutionnaire," Revue du Nord, 59 (July-Sept., 1977), 299-316.
  • "Community Control and Puritan Politics in Elizabethan Suffolk," Albion, 9 (1977), 297-315.
  • "The Puritan Work Ethic Revisited," Journal of British Studies,19 (Spring, 1980), 35-53.
  • "The English Reformation," in Reformation Europe: A Guide to Research, ed. Steven     Ozment (St. Louis, 1982), 271-296.
  • Biographical Dictionary of British Radicals in the Seventeenth Century, eds. Richard L. Greaves and Robert Zaller. 3 vols. (Brighton, Sussex, 1982-84), articles on William Bradford, William Brewster, Thomas Goodwin, John Owen, Christopher Taylor, John Winthrop.
  • Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth Century London. (Stanford, 1985).
  • "A Geographic Perspective in Microcosm:  An Artisanal Case Study," in Geographic Perspectives in History, eds. Eugene Genovese and Leonard Hochberg )Basil Blackwell,  1989).
  • “Armies, Nations and Liberty,”  Peace Review, I (Winter, 1989), 8-11.
  • “A Social Contract?  Master Against Servant in the Court of Requests,” History Today, 39 (September, 1989), 50-56.
  • “Declining Status in an Aspiring Age:  The Problem of the Gentle Apprentice in Seventeenth-Century London” in Court, Country and Culture:  Essays on Early Modern British History in Honor of Perez Zagorin, eds.  B. Kunze and D. Brautigan (Boydel and Brewer, 1992), 129-147.
  • ‘Thomas Dekker’s Shoemaker’s Holiday  and the world of London artisans and apprentices,” in David L. Smith, Richard Strier and David Bevington, eds., The Theatrical City:  London’s Culture, Theatre and Literature, 1576-1649 (Cambridge U.P., 1995), 87-100.
  • ‘Work, Discipline and the Apprentice in Early Modern London’, in Penelope Gouk, ed., Wellsprings of Achievement (Aldershot:  Variorum, 1995), pp.159-179.
  • ‘Laud and the Livery Companies’, in Charles Carlton, ed., State, Sovereigns and Society:  Essays in Early Modern English History in Honor of A.J. Slavin   (Sutton, 1997), 219-234.
  • ‘Recent Studies of the English Reformation’, Religious Studies Review,  24/1 (1998), 31-36.
  • ‘Symposium:  Controlling (Mis)Behavior:  Introduction’, Journal of British Studies,  37 (1998), 231-245.
  • New Dictionary of National Biography, articles on William Carter, Joseph Caryl, John Downham, John Poynter, Henry Roborough, John Stoughton, Nehemiah Wallington (Oxford U.P., 2004)
  • Articles on Richard Stock, Sir Richard Knightley, Nehemiah Wallington, lectureships, feoffees for impropriations, etc., for  The Encylopedia of Puritanism, ed. by Francis Bremer and Tom Webster. (ABC-CLIO, 2005).
  • Article, ‘Puritanism in England, 1560-1660,’  for Jonathan Dewald, ed., Europe 1450-1789;  Encylcopedia  of Early Modern World  (New York, Scribners, 2004).
  • ‘Suicide and the Vicar General in Early Stuart London,’ in From Sin to Insanity:  Suicide in Early Modern Europe,  ed. Jeffrey R. Watt (Cornell U.P., 2004), 25-47, 195-199.
  • ‘State Religion and Puritan Resistance in Early 17th century England’, in Religion and the Early Modern State, eds. James Tracy and Marguerite Ragnow (Cambridge UP, 2004), 207-249.          
  • “Puritan Preachers and their Patrons,” Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England, eds., Peter Lake and Kenneth Fincham. (Boydell and Brewer, 2006), 128-142.
  • “Middleton’s London,” in The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, vol.1, eds. Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford U,P,, 2007), 57-71.

University Service

  • Reed College, Instructor, 1962-64
  • Stanford University, Assistant Professor, 1964-70
  • Associate Professor, 1970-82
  • Professor, 1982-2001
  • Christensen Professor and Director of the Program in Cultures, Ideas, and Values, 1989-97