Birkbeck Lecture in Ecclesiastical History

The Birkbeck Lectures in Ecclesiastical History have been held at Trinity College, Cambridge, since 1886.[1]

Lectures

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The source for the list below is: "Past Birkbeck Lectures", Trinity College, Cambridge. Retrieved 25 September 2024.

Year Lecturer Lecture title
1886 William Cunningham The Conversion of the Germans
1891 James Bass Mullinger Temporal Power of the Papacy: Its Origins and Results
1892 James Bass Mullinger Schools of Theology at Cambridge
1896 William Holden Hutton The Church in the Sixth Century
1898 Arthur Cayley Headlam The Credibility of Early Church History
1900 John Neville Figgis Political Theories and Ecclesiastical Parties from the Council of Constance to Grotius
1902 John Henry Overton The Nonjurors
1905 Walter Howard Frere The History of the Religious Orders in England
1907 Thomas Scott Holmes The History of the Christian Church in the Province of Gaul
1908 Thomas Scott Holmes The Church in Roman Gaul in the Fifth Century
1909 William Cunningham Religion in England during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
1911 George Gordon Coulton Monasticism from St Bernard to the Reformation
1912 George Gordon Coulton Some Aspects of Medieval Church Art
1913 Reginald L. Poole Outlines of the History of the Papal Chancery
1913 William John Birkbeck
1920 Terrot R. Glover Inheritance and Experience in Early Christian Thought
1921 Cuthbert H. Turner The Sources and Material of Early Western Canon Law
1924 James Vernon Bartlet Church Life and Order in the First Four Centuries
1925 Alexander James Carlyle The Principles of the Relation of Church and State in the Middle Ages
1926 Alexander James Carlyle The Papacy and the Temporal Powers in the Thirteenth Century
1927–1929 Hugh Fraser Stewart Jansenist and Jesuit in the Seventeenth Century
1929–1930 Zachary N. Brooke The English Church and the Papacy from William I to John
1932–1933 Norman Sykes Church and State in England in the Eighteenth Century
1934–1935 A. Hamilton Thompson The English Church at the Opening of the Sixteenth Century
1936–1937 E. F. Jacob The Council of Constance
1938 Charles H. E. Smyth The Origins of the Evangelical Revival in Cambridge in the Eighteenth Century
1939 Norman H. Baynes Byzantine Asceticism
1946 Francis Dvornik Church and State in the East
1947 Ernest Gordon Rupp Luther Reconsidered
1948 William Abel Pantin The English Church in the Fourteenth Century
1948 Canon John R. H. Moorman The Grey Friars in Cambridge
1949 Stephen C. Neill India and Christianity in the Nineteenth Century
1951 Henry Outram Evennett The Counter-Reformation
Margaret Deanesley The Work of the Western Clergy as Transmitters of the Greco-Roman Tradition in Early Medieval Europe
1953 Canon Alec Vidler Lamennais, the Church, and the Revolution
1954 Stanley Lawrence Greenslade Six Early Christian Cities of the West
1955 Kathleen Wood-Legh The Chantry as an Institution in Medieval Britain
1956 W. Owen Chadwick The Idea of Development: From Bossuet to Newman
1957 Thomas Maynard Parker God, Man and Politics in Later Medieval Thought
1958 Gordon Donaldson The Scottish Reformation
1959 Derwas J. Chitty Egyptian and Palestinian Monasticism under the Christian Empire
1960 Sir Richard Southern St Anselm and His Friends
1961 Prince Dmitri Obolensky The Orthodox Church in the Medieval Slavonic Lands
1962 David Knowles Two Problems in Monastic History: Regula Magistri and Carta Caritatis
Charles Holwell Talbot Cluniac Monasticism: Odo to Peter the Venerable
1963 Robert William Greaves Politics and the Hanoverian Church of England
1965 Henry Chadwick Athanasius and the Arian Controversy
1966 Sir Steven Runciman The Church in Constantinople and the Protestant Churches in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
1967 George S. R. Kitson Clark Churchmen and the Social Problem: 1835–1885
1968 W. H. C. Frend The Rise of the Monophysite Empire: Some Chapters in the History of the Church in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries
1969 Walter Ullmann The Carolingian Renaissance and the Idea of Kingship
1970 Denys Hay The Church in Italy in the Fifth Century
1971 A. G. Dickens The German Reformation
1972 David Newsome Platonic Ideas in English Romantic Thought and Theology
1973 John Norman Davidson Kelly Aspects of St Jerome
J. M. Wallace-Hadrill The Franks and the Uses of Religion
1974 Basil Hall The Rise and Fall of Spanish Erasmianism
1976 John McManners Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death in Eighteenth-Century France
1977 Donald M. Nicol The Church and Society in the Last Centuries of Byzantium
1978 Michael J. Wilks God's Half Acre: Nationalism and the English Church in the Fourteenth Century
1979 Edward Norman Themes in the History of Latin-American Christianity
1981 Patrick Collinson The Beginnings of Non-Conformity: Popular Protestantism and Religious Dissent in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England
1983 Gareth V. Bennett The Restored Church of England, 1600–1689
1985 Brian Tierney Natural Law and Natural Rights: Languages of Discourse, 1150–1350
1987 John Dixon Walsh Methodism Attacked: The Opposition to Popular Evangelicalism in Eighteenth-Century England
1990 C. N. L. Brooke Religion and Learning in Cambridge, 1860–1960
1993 Derek Beales Lazy Monks and Philosophic Spoilers: European Monasteries in the Age of Revolution
1995 John Bossy Moral Tradition and Counter-Reformation
1997 Diarmaid MacCulloch Reformation as Adventure: The England of Edward VI
1999 Peter Linehan Culture and Society in Thirteenth-Century Castile: The Life and Times of Archbishop "Gudiel" of Toledo
2001 Adrian Hastings Died before he gave the lecture
2004 Richard Carwardine "Shall a Nation Be Born at Once?": Evangelical Religion in the Construction of the United States, 1776–1865
2005 Patricia Crone Civic Religion and Rationalist Thought: The Classical Tradition in the Near East Before and After the Rise of Islam
2007 Eamon Duffy Inventing the Counter-Reformation
2009 J. D. Y. Peel Christianity, Islam, and the Yoruba: World Religions in Comparison and Interaction
2011 Guy G. Stroumsa Scriptures, Paideia, and the Religious Revolution of Late Antiquity
2013 Simon Green The Rise and Fall of the Faithful City: Christianisation and Dechristianisation in England, 1850–1950
2015 Barbara D. Metcalf Islam in South Asia
2018 Julia Smith Christianity in Fragments: The Formation of the Cult of Relics, c. 300–800
2022 Gilles Kepel The History of Modern Jihad, from the Middle East to Europe, 1973-2022
2023 Richard Payne The First Iranians: Religion, Empire and Ethnicity in Late Antiquity

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Past Birkbeck Lectures", Trinity College, Cambridge. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
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