About

I am a Postgraduate Researcher at the University of Leeds working on early modern Catholic culture. Specifically, the project seeks to understand how ordinary Catholics in early modern Venice experienced and reacted to religious change. Drawing on a range of sources, including inquisitorial trials, confraternity records, and religious material culture, and print, my project investigates the Venetian laity’s relationship with the sacred during the Catholic Reform. How did ordinary Catholics in Counter-Reformation Venice interact with sacred powers? How did the laity work to cultivate a climate of sacred immanence in their daily spiritual lives? In asking these questions, my project contributes to the social history of the Counter-Reformation by bringing the ‘everyday’ Catholic to the centre of the study of religious culture.

My research is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) through the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities (WRoCAH).