- The development of the modern State in England with special reference to the global connections of the Catholic question.
- Intelligence networks: Florentine spies in England, Jesuits in the English colonies of North America.
- The language of mysticism in antiquarian and natural philosophical texts in early modern England.

I'm happy to supervise theses about one or more of the following topics:

England and the English-speaking worlds: from Henry VIII to Victoria excl. (1500-1837), intelligence, the Catholic problem, uses of the press, antiquarianism, common law and the 'State'; Churches-State relations; violence and liberty; the Scientific Revolution; the British Empire; alchemy, astrology, magic, and medicine; the politics of translations; gender history; Cromwell and the Civil Wars; British colonial history; print and book history; history of collections; England and Europe; history of the Universities; political Puritanism in England and in North-American colonies.

Spain: from Charles I/V to the loss of her colonies; politics and religion; Spanish intelligence; the press; Spanish relationships with the Ottoman empire.

France: from Francis I to Napoleon (1500-1815), State building; wars of religion; Richelieu; history of collections; gender history; the art of conversation and the Republic of Letters; astrology, alchemy, magic, and medicine; the criminal law system in the eighteenth century; science and Revolution.

"Italy": from the Reformation to Rome as capital of Italy (1500-1870), sixteenth-century heretics; alchemy, astrology, magic, and medicine, witchcraft; mobility of knowledge and seventeenth-century academies; women and knowledge in the Republic of Venice and in eighteenth-century Tuscany; Cavour; the unification of Italy.