DrMiles Pattenden

• The Papacy and Catholic Church Politics
• Cultural Legacies of Latin Christianity
• Gender & Sexuality in the Christian Tradition

Key publications:

Pius IV and the Fall of the Carafa: Nepotism and Papal Authority in Counter-Reformation Rome (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).

Cultures of Voting in Pre-Modern Europe, ed. with Serena Ferente and Lovro Kuncevic (London: Routledge, 2018).

A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal, ed. with Mary Hollingsworth and Arnold Witte (Leiden: Brill, 2020).

The Cambridge History of the Papacy, ed. with Melodie Eichbauer, Joëlle Rollo-Koster, and Robert Ventresca, 3 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025).

"Papal Rome in Lockdown: Proximities, Temporalities, and Emotions during the Im/mobility of the Conclave," I Tatti Studies 24 (2021): 291–309.

"Ringing in the Papal Restoration: Francesco Cancellieri’s treatise on the Capitoline Bells (1806)," Modern Italy 27 (2022): 207–23.

"Gaspar Sanz’s Ecos sagrados (1681) and Clerical Cultures of Diversion in Baroque Spain," The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 73 (2022): 783–813.

"Dressing Pope Francis: his public costume between pontifical, Jesuit, and Franciscan traditions," Journal of Jesuit Studies 11 (2024): 185–203.

"Priests and their Bodies after Trent: (Dis)abilities, Masculinities, Sexualities," The Journal of Religious History 48 (2024), 215–27.

"Priests and their Wigs in Eighteenth-Century Rome," Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 93 (2024), forthcoming.

"The Papal Tiara in Sacred Historiography," The Catholic Historical Review 110 (2024), 629–54.

With Michael D. Barbezat, "The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney," Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies 269 (2025), forthcoming.