Mark Rankin

Biographic Data

ID3980850
NAMEMark Rankin
GIVEN NAMESMark
FAMILY NAMERankin
SIGNATURERANKIN M
AFFILIATIONSJames Madison University
ORCID0000-0003-1565-2266
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • More’s Confutation of Tyndale and its readers

    Open AccessMark RankinARTICLEMoreana2026

    Following the work of G. R. Elton (1921–94), scholars have tended to dismiss More’s Confutation of Tyndale’s Answere (1532–33) as endless, tedious, aesthetically unpleasing, lacking in the poetry of Utopia, and thus among the worst works of More’s oeuvre. This thesis derives from the writing of sixteenth-century authors, especially John Foxe (1516–87), who juxtaposed Utopia with More’s polemical works to dismiss him. This article surveys early re…

  • Recent Studies in the Early Modern Bible

    Open AccessMark RankinARTICLEThe English Historical Review2026

  • Richard Topcliffe e a Cultura Livreira Clandestina do Catolicismo Elisabetano

    Open AccessMark Rankin, Vicente Eudes Lemos Alves et al.ARTICLEHistória histórias2024

    Richard Topcliffe (1531-1604) foi o mais infame torturador da Inglaterra elisabetana, e era também um leitor profissional. Historiadores do livro se interessam sobre a maneira como regimes repressivos leram os livros de seus inimigos. Este ensaio identifica um conjunto de livros que contêm anotações marginais feitas por Topcliffe e que ainda não foram estudados previamente. Aqui, argumento que a leitura de Topcliffe era de natureza forense, e foi…

  • English Reformation Literature

    Mark RankinCHAPTER2022

    The English Reformation produced a vibrant literature, which entertained and consoled readers and audiences, and attempted to influence the direction of religious change. Scholars long overlooked this literature because they clung to assumptions of canon-formation by which the medieval poet Chaucer and his imitators were thought to lead seamlessly to the Italianate aesthetic standards of the 1570s and the careers of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser,…

  • The Early Spenser, 1554–80: “Minde on honour fixed.”

    Mark RankinARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2022

  • The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590–1670

    Mark RankinARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2021

  • Is there still a need for abortion-specific laws? The capacity of the health framework to regulate abortion care

    Open AccessJohn Dwyer, Mark Rankin et al.ARTICLEAlternative Law Journal2021Cited by: 3

    After prolonged periods of criminalisation, 20th and 21st century law reform has now moved abortion care closer to being regulated as health care in all Australian jurisdictions. However, no jurisdiction has yet tested the proposition that specific laws for abortion care are unnecessary. This article analyses the capability of health law, policy and ethics to regulate abortion comprehensively, without the need for either stand-alone laws or speci…

  • Archives and Information in the Early Modern World

    Mark RankinARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2020

  • Richard Topcliffe and the Book Culture of the Elizabethan Catholic Underground

    Open AccessMark RankinARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2019Cited by: 1References: 2

    Richard Topcliffe (1531–1604) was the most infamous torturer of Elizabethan England. He was also a professional reader. Historians of the book are interested in how repressive regimes read the books of their enemies. This essay identifies a number of books that contain Topcliffe's marginalia and have not previously been studied by scholars. It argues that Topcliffe's reading was forensic in nature, and was utilized directly by the Elizabethan reg…

  • Prolegomena to the Adages: Adagiorum Collectanea

    Mark RankinARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2018

  • The Royal Provenance and Tudor Courtly Reading of a Wycliffite Bible

    Mark RankinARTICLEJournal of Medieval and Early…2017

    This analysis of Cambridge University Library, MS Mm.2.15 indicates some ways in which the English Bible may have been read by social elites during the mid-Tudor period. The presence of the Cambridge manuscript within the royal collection followed a precedent set by several of Edward VI's predecessors, who owned manuscript copies of the Wycliffite Bible. The exclusive status of the Middle English scriptural text changed after printed English bibl…

  • John Skelton: The Career of an Early Tudor Poet, by John Scattergood

    Open AccessMark RankinARTICLEThe English Historical Review2017

    John Skelton (c.1460–1529) can be described as the most important English poet between Geoffrey Chaucer, and Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, earl of Surrey. His career spans the Wars of the Roses and the English Reformation, and he was laureated by three universities—Oxford, Louvain and Cambridge. He worked as a propagandist for both Henry VII and Henry VIII, under whom he held the title of orator regius. He was also familiar with developments…

  • Reformation Unbound: Protestant Visions of Reform in England, 1525–1590

    Open AccessMark RankinARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2016

    Reformation Unbound: Protestant Visions of Reform in England, 1525–1590. Karl Gunther. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. x + 284 pp. $99. - Volume 69 Issue 2

  • Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest

    Mark RankinARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2014

  • The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama

    Mark RankinARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2014

  • Bound to Read: Compilations, Collections, and the Making of Renaissance Literature

    Open AccessMark RankinARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2014

    Jeffrey Todd Knight. Bound to Read: Compilations, Collections, and the Making of Renaissance Literature. Material Texts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. viii + 280 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4507-3. - Volume 67 Issue 2

  • Henry VIII and the Court: Art, Politics and Performance

    Open AccessMark RankinARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2014

    Thomas Betteridge and Suzannah Lipscomb, eds. Henry VIII and the Court: Art, Politics and Performance. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xviii + 328 pp. $124.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-1185-7. - Volume 67 Issue 2

  • Reformation Fictions: Polemical Protestant Dialogues in Elizabethan England

    Mark RankinARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2013

  • Capitalism: A Blunt Instrument

    Open AccessAlice Drury, Mark Rankin et al.ARTICLEAlternative Law Journal2012

    We have all seen the Occupy movement. It is a global phenomenon. Although there is no centralised organisation, but rather localised action groups, it can be discerned that the movement as a whole is protesting against social, political and especially economic inequities.1 The explanation for this inequality, according to the Occupiers globally, is capitalism

  • Religion and the Book in Early Modern England: The Making of Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs.”

    Open AccessMark RankinARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2012

    Elizabeth Evenden and Thomas S. Freeman. Religion and the Book in Early Modern England: The Making of Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs.” Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xiv + 388 pp. $99. ISBN: 978–0–521–83349–3. - Volume 65 Issue 2

  • Henry VIII, Shakespeare, and the Jacobean Royal Court

    Mark RankinARTICLEStudies in English Literature…2011

    Early Stuart history plays by William Shakespeare and Samuel Rowley join an ongoing debate over the continued cultural relevance of Henry VIII to the Stuart Court. In anachronistic representations of the Tudor king, both playwrights lodge typological arguments designed to flatter the perceived interests and agendas of their respective patrons, King James and Prince Henry Frederick. This evidence raises larger implications concerning the potential…

  • Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History. Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature

    Mark RankinARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2011

  • Renaissance and Reform in Tudor England: The Careers of Sir Richard Morison c. 1513-1556

    Mark RankinARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2011

  • Christopher Plantin and Engraved Book Illustrations in Sixteenth-Century Europe

    Mark RankinARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2010

  • Shakespeare's Letters

    Open AccessMark RankinARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2010

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