Dr Miles Pattenden

I am a Research Fellow at Wolfson College and Lecturer in the Faculty of History, where I teach British, European and World History c.1400-1800. My research focuses on early modern Italy and Spain, in particular the papacy and the Catholic Church during the Counter-Reformation. My first book Pius IV and the Fall of the Carafa (OUP, 2013) told the story of the only early modern papal family to be indicted for corruption and I have just finished a second monograph, Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, which is forthcoming with OUP in 2017. I am currently writing a history of Global Catholicism from the Council of Trent to Pope Francis and co-ordinating a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust sponsored project on the Early Modern Cardinal. 

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