Glenn Richardson

Glenn Richardson is Professor of Early-Modern History at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London. He works on monarchy and court culture in the Renaissance, in England, France and Italy, and on questions of gender and masculinity in monarchy.  He is the author of Francis I (2025) a biography of the sixteenth-century king of France, and Renaissance Monarchs at War: The Battle of Pavia 1525 (2025). In addition to a number of journal articles, including two in The Court Historian, and chapters in edited collections, his other books are Wolsey (2020); The Field of Cloth of Gold (2013 and 2020); ‘The Contending Kingdoms’: France and England 1420-1700 (2008); Renaissance Monarchy: The Reigns of Henry VIII, Francis I and Charles V (2002) and Tudor England and its Neighbours (co-edited with Susan Doran) (2005). Glenn is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and is an Honorary Fellow of the Historical Association.