Paul EJ Hammer

Paul EJ Hammer (born May 5, 1964 ) is a New Zealand historian who specializes in the military and political culture of English history of the Elizabethan period . He teaches as a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States.

Life

Hammer received his Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Auckland . He received his PhD in 1991 at Selwyn College of the University of Cambridge in England about the rise of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex to the favorites of Queen Elizabeth I ( 'The bright shininge sparke'. The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex , c.1585-c.1597 ). He then taught at the University of New England and the University of Adelaide in Australia and at St Andrews in Scotland. He is currently a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States.

In his work, Hammer mainly deals with the political and military cultural history of Elizabeth I's reign in England. His 1999 published biography of the rise of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex until 1597, based on the dissertation, is considered a standard work ("definitive biography of Essex's early career"). He is working on a continuation of this work, which will mainly deal with the fall of the Earl of Essex through a rebellion he led ( Essex Rising ) in 1601, and is writing a book about the English King Henry VIII. Most recently, he published alongside a number of Articles from the anthology Warfare in Early Modern Europe, 1450–1660 .

Works (selection)

The Polarization of Elizabethan Politics. The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585–1597. (= Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. ) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999, ISBN 0-521-43485-8 (preview on Google Books).
'Absolute Sovereign and Mistress of her Grace'? Queen Elizabeth and Her Favorites, 1581–1592. In: JH Elliott, LWB Brockliss (ed.): The World of the Favorite. Yale University Press, New Haven CT 1999, pp. 38-53 (preview on Google Books).
Sex and the Virgin Queen. Aristocratic Concupiscence and the Court of Elizabeth I. In: Sixteenth Century Journal 31 (2000), pp. 77-97.
Elizabeth's Wars. War, Government and Society in Tudor England, 1544-1604. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke et al. 2003, ISBN 0-333-91943-2 .
(Ed.) Warfare in Early Modern Europe, 1450–1660. (= The International Library of Essays on Military History. ) Ashgate, Aldershot et al. 2007, ISBN 0-7546-2529-X , ISBN 978-0-7546-2529-2 .
The Smiling Crocodile. The Earl of Essex and Late Elizabethan 'Popularity'. In: Peter Lake, Steven Pincus (Eds.): The Politics of the Public Sphere in Early Modern England. (= Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain. ) Manchester University Press, Manchester 2007, ISBN 0-7190-5317-X , pp. 95-115.
Shakespeare's Richard II, the Play of 7 February 1601, and the Essex Rising. (PDF; 763 kB) In: Shakespeare Quarterly 59 (2008), No. 1, pp. 1–35 (online on Hammers university website).

Web links

Paul EJ Hammer. Brief introduction on the University of Colorado Boulder website

Individual evidence

^ Catalog entry at the British Library .
↑ Alexandra Gajda: The Earl of Essex and Late Elizabethan Political Culture. (= Oxford Historical Monographs. ) Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-969968-1 , p. 3, note 6 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hammer, Paul EJ
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hammer, PEJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	New Zealand historian
DATE OF BIRTH	5th May 1964

[1] Catalog entry at the British Library .

[2] Alexandra Gajda: The Earl of Essex and Late Elizabethan Political Culture. (= Oxford Historical Monographs. ) Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-969968-1 , p. 3, note 6 .