Dr Sandy Wilkinson M.A, M.Litt., PhD. FRHistS
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Biography:
| I was educated at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Following the completion of my PhD, I stayed in St Andrews in the post of Project Manager of the British Academy and AHRC-funded French Vernacular Book Project. In 2006, I moved to Ireland, where I took up a Lectureship in the History of the Media at the School of History and Archives here in UCD. My research and teaching interests lie broadly in the social and cultural history of Europe
between 1450 and 1700. Currently, the focus of my research,
funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is on the development of the book trade in Spain and Portugal before 1650. From 2011-2014, I will serve as Vice-Principal of the College of Arts and Celtic Studies, overseeing the Graduate School. I am also Director of the Centre for the History of the Media, the founding editor of Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media and sit on the editorial board of St Andrews Studies in French History and Culture. From 2012-2015, I will serve as Secretary of The Society for the Study of French History, having previously acted as Membership Secretary. I am also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. |
Research Interests
| My research interests lie principally in the communications culture of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe, especially in France and Spain, and on interdisciplinary approaches to the history of the early modern book. My doctorate took as its subject the image of Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587) and how this was represented in literature and polemic over the course of one of the most turbulent periods in French history, the Religious Wars. This work was underpinned by bibliographical investigation undertaken as part of the French Vernacular Book Project, led by Professor Andrew Pettegree of the University of St Andrews. From 2001-2006, I served as project manager of this British Academy and AHRC-funded project which sought to compile an analytical short title catalogue of books published in French before 1601 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 2007). After moving to Ireland in 2006, my attention has shifted westwards to the publishing industries of Spain and Portugal, where I have attempted to refine the methodology of the French Project to a different print domain. In 2010, the first fruits of this labour were published by Brill - Libros Ibéricos: Libros publicados en español o portugués o en la Península Ibérica antes de 1601. A significant award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2011-2014) will permit the continutation of this project up to 1650. These projects will be published online as part of the Universal Short Title Catalogue Project. The USTC will bring together all of Europe's national bibliographies into a single searchable resource. It is hoped that this resource, made available free of charge, will help transform our understanding of the first great age of print. Once the bibliographical work has drawn to a close, I am hoping to undertake a comparative assessment of how the print cultures of France, Spain and England evolved between 1470 and 1650. |
Research Projects
| Sponsor : The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (AMF) Title : IB17: The Iberian Book Project, 1601-1650 Start Date / End Date : 01-MAR-11 / 31-MAY-14 |
Books
| Alexander S. Wilkinson (ed.); (2012) Exploring the Print World of Early-Modern Iberia. London: Bulletin of Spanish Studies. [Details] |
Alexander S. Wilkinson; (2011) The Universal Short Title Catalogue (contributing Iberian Books Online and co-editor of French Vernacular Books Online). St Andrews: St Andrews.  [Details] |
| Alexander S. Wilkinson; (2010) Iberian Books. Libros Ibéricos. Books Published in Spanish or Portuguese or on the Iberian Peninsula before 1601. Libros publicados en español o portugués o en la Península Ibérica antes de 1601. Leiden: Brill. [Details] |
| Andrew Pettegree, Malcolm Walsby & Alexander S. Wilkinson; (2007) French Vernacular Books: A Short Title Catalogue of Books Published in the French Language before 1601. Livres imprimés en français avant 1601. Leiden: Brill, 2 vols. [Details] |
| Alexander S. Wilkinson; (2004) Mary Queen of Scots and French Public Opinion, 1542-1600. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details] |
Book Chapters
| Alexander S. Wilkinson; (2011) 'The Printed Book on the Iberian Peninsula, 1500-1540' In: Malcolm Walsby and Graeme Kemp (eds). The Book Triumphant: Print in Transition in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Leiden: Brill. [Details] |
| David Foster & Alexander S. Wilkinson; (2011) 'Irish Lesson / Lekcja irlandzka' In: Anna Karwinska (eds). Humanista na rynku pracy. Krakow: Wyzsza Szkola Europejska im. ks. J'ozefa Tischnera w Krakowie. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Alexander S. Wilkinson; (2013) 'Cheap Vernacular Print in Spain before 1601: Some General Trends and International Comparisons'. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, . [Details] |
| Alexander S. Wilkinson; (2012) 'Exploring the Print World of Early-Modern Iberia'. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 89 (4):491-506. [Details] |
| Alexander S. Wilkinson and Marinela Garcia-Sempere; (2012) 'Catalan and the Book World of the Crown of Aragon, 1475-1601'. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 89 (4):557-574. [Details] |
| Alexander S. Wilkinson & Marinela Garcia-Sempere; (2011) 'La producció impresa en català durant els segles XV i XVI: Observacions sobre la història de la impremta a través de l'estudi dels catàlegs'. Caplletra: Revista Internacional de Filologia, . [Details] |
| Alexander S. Wilkinson; (2009) 'Lost Books Printed in French before 1601'. The Library, 10 (2):188-205. [Details] |
| Alexander S. Wilkinson; (2004) 'Homicides Royaux: The Assassination of the Duc and Cardinal de Guise and the Radicalisation of French Public Opinion'. French History, 18 (2). [Details] | |||||||||
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Other Journals
| Alexander S. Wilkinson; (2004) 'Mary Queen of Scots and the French Connection' History Today . [Details] |
Book Reviews
| Alexander S. Wilkinson; (2011) Review of Audrey Beth-Fitch, The Search for Salvation: Lay Faith in Scotland 1480-1650 (Birlinn, 2009) for Canadian Journal of History. Book Reviews [Details] |
| Alexander S. Wilkinson; (2010) Review of Stuart Carroll. Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009) in Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 63, no.2 (1 June 2010), pp. 654-655. Renaissance Quarterly: Book Reviews [Details] |
| Alexander S. Wilkinson; (2006) Review of Bronwen Wilson, The World in Venice: Print, the City, and Early Modern Identity, by Bronwen Wilson. Studies in Book and Print Culture. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2005. xviii, 406 pp. in Canadian Journal of History (Autumn, 2006). Book Reviews [Details] |
| Alexander S. Wilkinson; (2006) Review of Paul Arblaster, Antwerp and the World. Richard Verstegan and the International Culture of Catholic Reformation (Leuven University Press, 2004), in Sixteenth Century Journal 37:1 (2006). Book Reviews [Details] |
| Alexander S. Wilkinson; (2003) Review of Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685, edited by Raymond A. Mentzer and Andrew Spicer. Journal of Ecclesiastical History 54, no. 2 (2003): 371-72. Book Reviews [Details] |
Honours and Awards
| Year: 2011. Title: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholarly Communication and Information Technology Award (2011-2014) for Iberian Book Project: 1601-1650 |
| Year: 2010. Title: Instituto Camões Discretionary Award (2010) for International Conference 'Exploring the Print World of Early-Modern Iberia' |
| Year: 2008. Title: Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Award to develop Centre for the History of the Media |
| Year: 2004. Title: Arts and Humanities Research Council Institutional Postdoctoral Fellowship (September 2004 - August 2006) |
| Year: 2001. Title: British Academy Institutional Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2001-2004) |
| Year: 2000. Title: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Research Grant |
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| Year: 1998. Title: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Doctoral Scholarship (1998-2001) |
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| Year: 1998. Title: Scottish Awards Agency Scotland studentship |
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Associations
| Association: Royal Historical Society, Function/Role: Fellow |
| Association: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media, Function/Role: Founding Editor |
| Association: Society for the Study of French History, Function/Role: Secretary |
| Association: St Andrews Studies in French History and Culture (Publication Series), Function/Role: Editorial Board Member |
| Association: Sixteenth Century Studies Society, Function/Role: Member |
Conference Contributions
| Wilkinson, Alexander S.; (2011) Printing on the Periphery of Europe. [Invited Lecture], The Early Modern Book World: The Launch of the Universal Short Title Catalogue, Edinburgh , 22-NOV-11 - 23-NOV-11. |
| Alexander Wilkinson; (2011) Peripheral Print Cultures in Renaissance Europe. [Plenary Lecture], UNESCO Renaissance City of Literature Conference, Marsh's Library in Dublin , 05-SEP-11 - 05-SEP-11. |
| Alexander Wilkinson; (2011) Charting the Book World of Early Modern Iberia: The UCD Iberian Book Project. [Invited Lecture], TCD European History Research Seminar, Trinity College, Dublin , 27-JAN-11 - 27-JAN-11. |
| Alexander Wilkinson; (2011) Panel 2E: Politics and Personality in medieval and early modern France. [Chaired Session], Society for the Study of French History, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge , 13-JUL-11 - 15-JUL-11. |
| Alexander Wilkinson; (2011) The Book World of Early Modern Spain. [Invited Lecture], University of Alicante Graduate Seminar Series, University of Alicante , 23-MAY-11 - 24-MAY-11. |
| Alexander Wilkinson; (2010) 'The Bigger Picture: Publishing in Spain before 1601'. [Non Refereed Paper/Abstract Presented at Conference], Golden Age Research Symposium, Cork , 19-NOV-10 - 21-NOV-10. | |||||||||
| Alexander Wilkinson; (2010) The Iberian Book Project. [Invited Lecture], Reading Anthologies in Sixteenth-Century Europe, Trinity College, Dublin , 19-JUL-10 - 21-JUL-10. | |||||||||
| Alexander Wilkinson; (2010) Organised International Conference. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Exploring the Print World of Early Modern Iberia, University College Dublin , 20-MAY-10 - 21-MAY-10. | |||||||||
| Wilkinson, Alexander S.; (2009) Mapping the Print World of Early Modern Iberia: The UCD Book Project. [International Refereed Conference], Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Geneva, Switzerland , 28-MAY-09 - 30-MAY-09. | |||||||||
| Alexander Wilkinson; (2008) International Conference hosted by the UCD Centre for the History of the Media. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Print Culture after Union: The Impact of 1707 and 1800 on the Print Cultures of Scotland and Ireland, Dublin , 12-DEC-08 - 13-DEC-08. | |||||||||
| Wilkinson, A.; (2008) The Iberian Book 1500-1540. [Invited Lecture], The book in Transition. The Printed Book in the post-incunabula age, 1500-1540, St. Andrews, Scotland , 03-SEP-08 - 05-SEP-08. | |||||||||
| Wilkinson, A.; (2007) Reconstructing the Legion of the Lost: The Case of French Print before 1601. [Invited Lecture], TCD Research Seminar, Dublin , 22-OCT-07. | |||||||||
| Wilkinson, A.; (2007) The Bibliothèques of François de La Croix du Maine and Antoine Du Verdier. [National Refereed Conference Paper], Society for the Study of French History annual conference, St. Andrews , 01-JUL-07. | |||||||||
| Wilkinson, A.; (2007) 'Sustaining a city under siege: Paris versus Henri de Navarre', one day symposium entitled. [Non Refereed Paper/Abstract Presented at Conference], Religious Disputation:The Culture of Controversy in Early Modern Ireland in an International Context, Dublin , 01-JUN-07 - 01-JUN-07. | |||||||||
| Wilkinson, A; (2006) Press Censorship in France during the Religious Wars: the Book Privilege System 1560-1600. [Invited Oral Presentation], Censorship and Propaganda, UCD School of History , 24-FEB-06. | |||||||||
| A. Wilkinson; (2001) The Crown and the Public Image of England and Scotland in the Polemical Literature of the French Wars of Religion. [International Refereed Conference], Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver , 01-OCT-01. | |||||||||
| A. Wilkinson; (2000) Mary Queen of Scots and the Polemic of the French Catholic League. [International Refereed Conference], Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, Ohio , 01-NOV-00. | |||||||||
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Committees
| Committee : Secretary, Society for the Study of French History |
| Committee : Vice-Principal - Director of the Graduate School, College of Arts and Celtic Studies, UCD. |
| Committee : Assessment Appeals Committee |
| Committee : Membership Secretary, Society for the Study of French History |
| Committee : Director, UCD Centre for the History of the Media |
Employment
| Employer: School of History and Archives, UCD Position: Lecturer in the History of the Media |
| Employer: School of History, University of St Andrews Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
Education
| Year 1997 Institution: University of St Andrews Qualification: MA Subject: Modern History |
| Year 1999 Institution: University of St Andrews Qualification: MLitt Subject: Reformation Studies |
| Year 2002 Institution: University of St Andrews Qualification: PhD Subject: |
Languages
| French: |
| Spanish: |
| Hellenistic Greek: |
| Latin: |
Other Activities
| Reader's Report, Palgrave Macmillan |
| Reader's Report, Manchester University Press |
| Project Manager of the British Academy and AHRC funded St. Andrews French Book Project 01/09/2001 -31/08/2006 |
Internal Collaborators
| Professor Don Cruickshank (Emeritus Professor, School of Languages, UCD), USTC Project |
External Collaborators
| Graeme Kemp, University of St Andrews Professor Maria Manuela Garcia Sempere, Facultat Filosofia y Letra - Filología Catalana (Universitat d'Alacant) Professor Andrew Pettegree (University of St Andrews), USTC Project Dr Malcolm Walsby (School of History, University of St Andrews), USTC Project Dr Chandrika Kaul (School of History, University of St Andrews), co-editor, Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media Dr Bill Bell (Director, Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh), co-editor, Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Professor Kenneth Osgood (Florida Atlantic University), co-editor, Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. |