Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of English at the University of Sussex
Publications
The Two Martyrs Fireback: Further comments, by Dr Paul Quinn, published December 2013 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 131, article, p.8, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507923] & S.A.S. library View Online
Preview:Crispin Paine's fascinating discussion of the 'Sussex Martyrs' fireback in the August edition of Sussex Past & Present raises the intriguing possibility that the image on the fireback is based on two woodcuts found in the 1570 edition of Foxe's Acts and Monuments. The suggestion that the fireback is based upon the image of the martyrdom of Simon Miller and Elizabeth Cooper at Norwich is interesting but problematic.
Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex: Culture and Conflict, by Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield and Paul Quinn, published 17 September 2014 (286 pp., Routledge, ISBN-10: 1409457036 & ISBN-13: 9781409457039)
Abstract:Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex is an interdisciplinary study of a county at the forefront of religious, political and artistic developments in early-modern England. Ranging from the schism of Reformation to the outbreak of Civil War, the volume brings together scholars from the fields of art history, religious and intellectual history and English literature to offer new perspectives on early-modern Sussex. Essays discuss a wide variety of topics: the coherence of a county divided between East and West and Catholic and Protestant; the art and literary collections of Chichester cathedral; communities of Catholic gentry; Protestant martyrdom; aristocratic education; writing, preaching and exile; local funerary monuments; and the progresses of Elizabeth I. Contributors include Michael Questier; Nigel Llewellyn; Caroline Adams; Karen Coke; and Andrew Foster. The collection concludes with an Afterword by Duncan Salkeld (University of Chichester). This volume extends work done in the 1960s and 70s on early-modern Sussex, drawing on new work on county and religious identities, and setting it into a broad national context. The result is a book that not only tells us much about Sussex, but which also has a great deal to offer all scholars working in the field of local and regional history, and religious change in England as a whole.
Sussex Protestantism and the construction of martyrdom, by Paul Quinn, published 17 September 2014 in Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex: Culture and Conflict (Chapter 8., Routledge, ISBN-10: 1409457036 & ISBN-13: 9781409457039)