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Stanford
Department of History
School of Humanities and Sciences

David Como

Professor of History
Ph.D, Princeton University, Department of History. (1999)
A.B., Stanford University, History (1992)
David Como
My teaching and research focus on the following areas of interest:

Puritanism, Politics
English Revolution
History of print
History of Political Thought
History of Religion and the Reformation
Global History

Books

Articles/Chapters

Empire of heresy: Samuel Gorton, Gerrard Winstanley, and the London roots of trans-Atlantic revolutionary religion

2022

Printing the Levellers: Clandestine Print, Radical Propaganda, and the New Model Army

2021

Provincial ‘Levellers’ and the Coming of the Regicide in the South-West

2020

The Origins of the Concept of Freedom of the Press

2020

Making ‘the Heads of the Proposals’: The King, the Army, the Levellers, and the Roads to Putney

2020

City on the Other Hill: The Plough Patent, the Company of Husbandmen, and a Radical Puritan Colonization Project

2019

The Family of Love and the Making of English Revolutionary Religion: The Confession and “Conversions” of Giles Creech

2018

Print, Censorship, and Ideological Escalation in the English Civil War

2012

Secret Printing, the Crisis of 1640, and the Origins of Civil War Radicalism

2007

The Burning of Edward Wightman: Puritanism, Prelacy and the Politics of Heresy in Early Modern England

2005

Predestination and Political Conflict in Laud’s London

2003

Women, Prophecy, and Authority in Early Stuart Puritanism

1998
  

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Contact

Office
200-309
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Office Hours

On leave 2022-23
Field
Subfield
Global, Transnational, and International History
Political Culture
Religion
Revolutions
The Atlantic World