Dr Sarah Apetrei

As Senior Tutor, Sarah has oversight of student admissions, academic support, and academic administration and policy. Please do contact her for advice and information about applying to Campion Hall. Previously, Sarah was Director of Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Theology and Religion; before that she taught early modern church history for the Faculty and was director of studies for Theology and Religion at Keble College. She continues to offer some supervision and teaching related to her research. 

Early modern mysticism and prophecy; women, gender and religion; religious radicalism.

Books

The Reformation of the Heart: Gender and Radical Theology in the English Revolution (Oxford, 2024)

Women, Feminism and Religion in Early Enlightenment England (Cambridge, 2010)

Ed. with Hannah Smith, Religion and Women in Britain, 1650-1750 (Routledge, 2014)

Articles

"The Reformation of the Heart: The Making of ‘Mysticism’ in Seventeenth-Century England." Medieval Mystical Theology, Vol. 29, no. 2, 2020, 79–92

"Gender, mysticism, and enthusiasm in the British post-Reformation". Reformation & Renaissance Review, Vol. 17 no. 2, 2016, 116–128.

"Mystical Divinity in the Manuscript Writings of Jane Lead and Anne Bathurst", in Ariel Hessayon ed., Jane Lead and her Transnational Legacy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016): 167-186.

" 'Between the rational and the mystical': the inner life and the early English enlightenment ", in Sara Poor and Nigel Smith eds., Mysticism and Reform 1450-1750 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015).

'“The Evill Masculine Powers”: Gender in the Thought of Gerrard Winstanley'. Prose Studies, Vol. 36 no. 1, 2014, 52–62.

"The ‘Sweet Singers’ of Israel: Prophecy, Antinomianism and Worship in Restoration England." Reformation & Renaissance Review, Vol. 10 no. 1, 2008, 3–23.

 " ‘The Life of Angels’: Celibacy and Asceticism in Anglicanism, 1660-c.1700". Reformation & Renaissance Review, Vol. 13. No. 4, 2011, 247–274.

"“Call No Man Master Upon Earth”: Mary Astell’s Tory Feminism and an Unknown Correspondence." Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 41 no. 4, 2008, 507-523