Matthew Mclean

Biography

Matthew McLean teaching covers aspects of European history, chiefly the intellectual and social developments of the northern Renaissance and the Reformation.

Research Interest

The heart of his research is the scholarly culture of the late Renaissance and early Reformation era. He worked first of all on humanism and international humanist networks centred upon Reformed Basel, and studied works of cosmography as expressions of early modern history writing, geography and cartography, with a focus upon the intersection between traditional knowledge, scientific enquiry and religion. More recently he have worked on Bible scholarship and the culture of translation among those same networks of humanist scholars, and the remarkable body of learning which they produced. He was working on a study of the new Reformed Latin translations of the Bible in the sixteenth century, each of which speaks to a particular moment of religious, cultural or political crisis.