Dr Amanda Capern

Dr Amanda Capern

Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Women's History

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education
  • School of Humanities

Summary

Amanda Capern is a specialist in early-modern British and European women's and gender history and is editing The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe.

Her current research focuses on authority, power and emotions, and she is writing a book on family relations, finances and the law courts.

Amanda Capern is Principle Investigator on the Gender, Place and Memory interdisciplinary and inter-faculty research cluster at the University of Hull, running a series of projects on early-modern women's property.

She is co-editor of Gender and History - a Palgrave book series - and welcomes book proposals on any area of gender history.

Undergraduate

- Early Modern People and their Worlds

- Gender, Society and Culture in Early Modern England

Postgraduate

- Themes in Medieval and Early Modern European History

Recent outputs

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Book Chapter

Visions of monarchy and magistracy in women's political writing, 1640– 80

Capern, A. L. (2018). Visions of monarchy and magistracy in women’s political writing, 1640– 80. In J. Clare (Ed.), From republic to restoration: legacies and departures (102-123). Manchester: Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526107510.00012

Mary Hays and the Imagined Female Communities of Early Modern Europe

Capern, A. (2017). Mary Hays and the Imagined Female Communities of Early Modern Europe. In G. L. Walker (Ed.), The Invention of Female Biography (174-198). Abingdon: Routledge

Journal Article

Gender, property and succession in the early modern English aristocracy: the case of Martha Janes and her illegitimate children

Worthen, H., McDonagh, B., & Capern, A. (2019). Gender, property and succession in the early modern English aristocracy: the case of Martha Janes and her illegitimate children. Women's History Review, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2019.1696414

Maternity and justice in the Early Modern English Court of Chancery

Capern, A. L. (2019). Maternity and justice in the Early Modern English Court of Chancery. Journal of British Studies, 58(4), 701-716. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2019.91

More than bricks and mortar: Female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England

Aston, J., Capern, A., & McDonagh, B. (2019). More than bricks and mortar: Female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England. Urban history, 46(4), 695-721. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926819000142

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Economic History Society Coordination Project - Follow On Funding

Funder

Economic History Society

Grant

£105,306.00

Started

1 June 2021

Status

Ongoing

Project

Gender, Debt And Family Relations: The Temples Of Stowe

Funder

The Huntington

Grant

£4,285.00

Started

17 July 2017

Status

Complete

Project

Thames Consortium’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme

Funder

AHRC Arts & Humanities Research Council

Grant

£55,827.00

Started

1 October 2014

Status

Complete

Project

Going to Chancery: Gender, Family and Law in England, 1550-1750

Funder

The Leverhulme Trust

Grant

£48,232.00

Started

1 February 2019

Status

Complete

Project

Economic History Society Coordination Project

Funder

Economic History Society

Grant

£12,683.00

Started

1 April 2020

Status

Complete

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

AHRC-RLUK Professional Practice Fellowship Scheme for academic and research libraries

Funder

AHRC Arts & Humanities Research Council

Grant

£19,823.00

Started

1 July 2022

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

Amanda Capern welcomes enquiries about doctoral supervision on any aspect of early-modern British women's history.

Current PhD supervisions

- Elizabeth Rogers (1st supervisor). Women and the World: Explorers from the Home during the Enlightenment in Britain (AHRC, Heritage Consortium Scholarship)

- Alice Whiteoak (1st supervisor). Walking the World: Gender and Place in the Court of Exchequer 1620-1670 (Gender, Place and Memory Interdisciplinary Research Cluster, University of Hull)

- Helen Manning (2nd supervisor). Women, Property and the Law: Mapping Sexual Inequality in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 1708-1974 (Gender, Place and Memory Interdisciplinary Research Cluster, University of Hull)

- Stormm Buxton-Hill (2nd supervisor). Early Modern Women's Agency in negotiating Marriage Settlements

- Sarah Shields (2nd supervisor). Maid, Wife and Widow: Women's Lifecycle and Property Ownership in the Long Eighteenth Century (University of Hull Doctoral Scholarship)

- Charlotte Garside (1st supervisor). Women in Chancery: An Analysis of Chancery as a Women's Court of Redress in 17th Century England (AHRC, Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with The National Archives)

- Nicola Kelsall (1st supervisor). The Figure of the Cuckold in Early Modern Political Culture and Social Discourse (University of Hull Doctoral Scholarship)

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