Eloise Davies is Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Hamilton School. Before that she was Departmental Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Oxford. Davies’s main area of research is seventeenth-century England and Venice, two maritime empires which became focal points for European debate about sovereignty and Church-State relations in the wake of the Reformation. Her research into seventeenth-century Anglo-Venetian relations has been awarded the Sir John Neale Prize for Early Modern British History and the Society for Court Studies Essay Prize. She is also interested in medieval political thought, especially the political thought of the fourteenth-century saint and mystic Catherine of Siena and her milieu. Her work has appeared in English Historical Review, Renaissance Studies, Historical Research and Court Historian. She has also written for Engelsberg Ideas.