Michael C. Questier is an English academic and historian.

Questier studied at Worth School and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1991 he completed a D.Phil at the University of Sussex on early modern politico-religious history. He has published works on post-Reformation history, and English Catholicism between the early Reformation and the English Civil War, particularly focusing on anti-popery, aristocratic culture, the Jacobean exchequer, and the experience of conversion. He taught at Worcester College, Oxford, was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at King's College London, and in 2002, became a senior lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London, subsequently becoming its Professor of Early Modern British and European History. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.

Published works

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  • "Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580-1625", Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History (1996) ISBN 0-521-44214-1
  • The Politics of Religious Conformity and the Accession of James I, Article (2002) doi:10.1111/1468-2281.00051
  • *Newsletters from the Caroline Court, 1631-1638: Volume 26: Catholicism and the Politics of the Personal Rule, Camden Fifth Series xvi+358 (2005) ISBN 0-521-85407-5
  • "Elizabeth and the Catholics" in Catholics and the Protestant Nation: Religious Politics and Identity in Early Modern England, Manchester University Press, edited by E. Shagan, pp. 63–94 (2005)
  • "Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c.1550-1640", Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History (2006) ISBN 0-521-86008-3
  • "Arminianism, Catholicism and Puritanism in England during the 1630s", Historical Journal, 49, pp. 53–78 (2006) doi:10.1017/S0018246X05005054.
  • "Catholic Loyalism in Early Stuart England", English Historical Review, cxxiii, pp. 1132–65 (2008)
  • Stuart Dynastic Policy and Religious Politics, 1621-1625, Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society (2009) ISBN 978-0-521-19403-7

Co-authored published works

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Further reading

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"Religion in the State Papers 1603-1640"