Dr Katie McKeogh

I'm a religious and cultural historian and book historian working on the project 'Dissemination, Ownership, and Reading of Music in Early Modern Europe' (PI: Dr Elisabeth Giselbrecht, originally assessed and funded by the ERC, now by the UKRI) as a postdoctoral research associate. I joined King's in 2023 following a decade at the University of Oxford as a graduate student and then Junior Research Fellow in History.  

Research Interests and PhD Supervision

• Reformation Europe
• The culture of printed books and manuscripts
• Antiquarianism
• Catholicism

My research in its broadest sense is principally concerned with the cultural impact of religious change in Britain and beyond in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. My previous research has focused on English Catholicism, and in particular the circle of the book collector, architectural patron, and outspoken recusant Sir Thomas Tresham (c.1543-1605). I have published on aspects of the English Catholic gentry and on manuscript culture. I study music books through the lenses of antiquarianism, collecting, and the culture of book ownership in Europe, especially England and France. I am also working on a monograph project: Catholic Book Culture in Early Modern England, 1560-1660.

Selected Publications

• “Flowers of Fathers:” Resistance and Consolation in a Catholic Manuscript Compilation, Bodleian MSS Eng. th. b. 1-2', Huntington Library Quarterly 84:2 (2022): 307-51
• ‘Catholic Marriages and Family Politics: Vaux v Tresham’, British Catholic History, 35/4 (2021): 369-95
• ‘Muriel Tresham [née Throckmorton], d. 1615’, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. Sir David Cannadine
• (with Sarah Ward Clavier) ‘Religion and the Seventeenth-Century Press’ in The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, vol. 1, Beginnings and Consolidation 1640-1800, ed. Nicholas 
Brownlees (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).