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Scott Lucas specializes in the literature and culture of Renaissance England, focusing on the intersections of literature, politics, and religion in sixteenth-century English writings. He is the author of two scholarly monographs: 'A Mirror for Magistrates' and the Politics of the English Reformation (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009), a study of Tudor-period political literature, and A Mirror for Magistrates: A Modernized and Annotated Edition (Cambridge University Press, 2019). His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in leading journals including Reformation, Review of English Studies, Huntington Library Quarterly, Spenser Studies, Renaissance Studies, and Studies in Philology, as well as chapters in Oxford Handbooks and edited collections from Manchester University Press, Boydell Press, and Ashgate. Key publications include 'The Birth and Later Career of the Author William Baldwin (d. 1563)' (Huntington Library Quarterly, 2016), 'Henry Lord Stafford, “The Two Rogers,” and the Creation of A Mirror for Magistrates, 1554-1563' (Review of English Studies, 2015), 'A Renaissance Man and his “Medieval” Text: William Baldwin and A Mirror for Magistrates, 1547-1563' (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and co-authored 'From Court to Community: Francis Seager's Certayne Psalmes and the Popularization of Mid-Tudor Scriptural Verse' (Reformation, 2022). Lucas has also contributed to reference works such as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, and edited selections for scholarly editions.