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Chris R. Kyle

Chris R. Kyle

Contact Information:

chkyle@syr.edu

315.443.2210

153 Eggers Hall

Chris R. Kyle

Associate Professor, History Department


Courses

  • 2024 Spring
    • HST 357 Culture and politics in Early Modern England: Henry VIII to Charles I
    • HST 496 Distinction Thesis in History
    • HST 300 Selected Topics - Queen Elizabeth I
  • 2023 Fall
    • HST 495 Distinction Thesis in History
    • HST 111 Early Modern Europe, 1350-1815
  • 2023 Spring
    • HST 357 Culture and politics in Early Modern England: Henry VIII to Charles I
    • HST 300 Selected Topics - Queen Elizabeth I
  • 2022 Fall
    • HST 111 Early Modern Europe, 1350-1815
  • 2022 Spring
    • HST 357 Culture and politics in Early Modern England: Henry VIII to Charles I
    • HST 300 Selected Topics - Queen Elizabeth I

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., University of Auckland, 1994

Areas of Expertise

Early Modern England
Parliamentary history
Proclamations and communication between centre and locality in Early Modern England

Selected Publications

  • Books
    • Connecting Centre and Locality: Political Communication in Early Modern England. Kyle, C. R., Peacey, J. (eds.) Manchester, 2020.
    • Managing Tudor and Stuart Parliaments: Essays in Honour of Michael Graves. Kyle, C. R. (ed.) Blackwells, 2015.
    • Kyle, C. R., Theatre of State: Parliament and Political Culture in Early Modern England. Stanford University Press, 2011.
    • Kyle, C. R., Peacey, J., Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper. Exhibition Catalogue, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2008.
    • Parliament at Work 1510-1670: Parliamentary Committees, Access and Lobbying under the Tudors and Stuarts. Kyle, C. R., Peacey, J. (eds.) Boydell and Brewer, 2002.
    • Parliament, Politics and Elections. Kyle, C. R. (ed.) Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  • Journal Articles
    • Kyle, C. R., "Constitutionalists, Despots, Whigs, and Revisionists: Tudor Parliamentary History in the Twentieth Century." Hayton, D., Clark, L. (eds.) Historians and Parliament, 2021.
    • "A Dog, A Butcher, and a Puritan: The Politics of Lent in Early Modern England." Kyle, C. R., Peacey, J. (eds.) Connecting Centre and Locality: Political Communication in Early Modern England, 2020.
    • "Wrangling Lawyers: Proclamations and the Management of the English Parliament of 1621." Kyle, C. R. (ed.) Managing Tudor and Stuart Parliaments , 2015.
    • Kyle, C. R., "Monarch and Marketplace: Proclamations as News in early Modern England." Ferrel, L. A. (ed.) Revisiting Revisionism, Huntington Library Quarterly, 2015.
    • Kyle, C. R., "Early Modern Terrorism: The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and its Aftermath." Davis, M., Bowden, B. (eds.) Terror: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism in Europe, 2008.
    • Kyle, C. R., "Henry VIII or All is True: Shakespeare’s “Favorite” Play’." Maguire, L. (ed.) How to do Things with Shakespeare, 2008.
    • Kyle, C. R., "Remapping London: an afterword." Howard, J., Harkness, D. (eds.) Huntington Library Quarterly, 2008.

Presentations and Events

University of California, Riverside; Durham University; Claremont Graduate University; Cambridge University; Oxford University; Rutgers; University of Pennsylvania; Institute of Historical Research, London; Renaissance Society of America; North American Conference on British Studies; Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies; Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies; Washington Area Group of Print Studies; CUNY; University of East Anglia; Folger Shakespeare Library; Huntington Library; Canterbury University (NZ); University of Auckland; SUNY Stony Brook; University of Colorado, Boulder; UMass Amherst; Universitié de Strasbourg. (2000 - 2022)

Honors and Accolades

2005-2006 Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Teaching Recognition Award, Syracuse University (2006)