Departmental homepageProfessor Rublack was elected as a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College in 1994 and offered a lectureship at Cambridge University in 1996. She was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2017. In 2019 her work as a historian and her book The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler´s Fight for His Mother were recognised with Germany´s most prestigious prize for historians, awarded every three years, the Deutsche Historikerpreis. Her books are translated into seven languages, including Arabic and Chinese.
Professor Rublack teaches early modern European and world history. A particular focus are her interests in visual and material history, including the history of art and dress and fashion, as well as the history of witchcraft and the Protestant Reformations.
Rublack is currently writing a world history of dress, c.1100-1800. Her most recent book focused on the artist Albrecht Dürer and the culture of curiosity collecting in Europe.
Dürer´s Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World, Oxford University Press (2023) and Klett Cotta, Germany (2023).
The Astronomer & the Witch: Johannes Kepler´s Fight for His Mother, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2015) and various translations.
Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2010), and Klett Cotta (2023).
Reformation Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (New Approaches to European History) 2nd substantially revised edition 2017.
