Christine Jackson is Emeritus Fellow and Dean of Degrees at Kellogg College, Oxford. She was previously Associate Professor in Early Modern History at Oxford University Department for Continuing Education where she directed and taught undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for twenty-five years. Her research interests and publications have migrated from the early modern economy and society to early modern elites, and over the past decade she has been focussing on the study of the extraordinary life and extensive writings of Lord Herbert of Cherbury.