Dr Laurence Lux-Sterritt, Editor of the Early Modern Bibligraphy

Laurence Lux-Sterritt is a lecturer of British History in the Département des Études sur le Monde Anglophone at the University of Aix-Marseille. Her work focuses particularly upon a comparative analysis of female Catholic endeavours in early modern England and France. She obtained her PhD in History at the University of Lancaster, UK; her thesis, 'Soldiers of God: Aspects of Female Involvement in the Catholic Reformation in England and France, 1604-1685' provided much of the foundation work for her monograph, Redefining Female Religious Life. French Ursulines and English Ladies in Seventeenth Century Catholicism, Ashgate: Aldershot, 2005. She has published various articles in English and in French, exploring such issues as the governance, the spirituality and the missionary involvement of both the Ignatian Institute founded by the Yorkshire woman Mary Ward (1585-1645) and the French teaching order of the Ursulines.
She is currently working on recusancy and especially on the place of women in the Protestant representation of Catholicism as incompatible with Englishness.