Chosen Peoples and the Universal Church in the early Middle Ages

You do not have to delve very far into the historiography of early medieval Christianity to start finding statements that such and such an author thought their people had been selected by God as a new Israel or chosen people.

Witnessing the Medieval English Parish Church

Since taking up a research fellowship at a single-subject institution last year, I’ve perhaps become a little too comfortable in my material-oriented art historical world. The Ecclesiastical History Society’s postgraduate colloquium in March was a welcome opportunity to widen my disciplinary boundaries.

Why ‘Churches and Education’?

Professor Morwenna Ludlow is President of the Ecclesiastical History Society 2017-18, here she explains her choice of theme for the annual summer conference: ‘Churches and Education’.

The Shrine That Never Was: The Anglo-Saxons and the Relics of Gregory I

Miriam Adan Jones is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Theology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, studying early medieval church history. She is preparing a thesis on the role ethnic identities played in the Anglo-Saxon church. In 2016, she was awarded the EHS’s Michael Kennedy Prize for her paper on the language of baptism in early…

Remembering Martin Bucer

Stephen Tong is an Australian in his third year of PhD research at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, which is partly funded by the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. He is investigating evangelical ecclesiology during the Edwardian Reformation with a particular focus on developments in liturgy. At the 2016 EHS summer conference (for which he was awarded a…

The Queen Caroline Affair and the Politicisation of the Church of England

Nicholas Dixon is an AHRC-funded second-year PhD student at Pembroke College, Cambridge. His doctoral research concerns the political and social influence of the Church of England during the early nineteenth century, with a particular focus on the Anglican clergy’s involvement in parliamentary politics, elementary education and tract distribution. He has also investigated various aspects of the Church’s relationship with the British monarchy and, at this year’s EHS summer conference (for which he was awarded a bursary), presented a paper on Queen Adelaide’s role in promoting Anglicanism in Malta. This post, which describes the implications of the ‘Queen Caroline Affair’ for the Church, draws together two important themes of his enquiries: the religious dimension of monarchy and clerical political activity.

Martin Luther: Art and Refomation

Prof. Andrew Spicer reviews the ‘Martin Luther: Art and Reformation’ exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
30 October 2016 – 15 January 2017

The Church & Empire, Edinburgh 2016: Conference Report

Few themes excite the historian’s imagination as much as that of Empire, and this year’s EHS Summer conference proved that religious historians are no exception. Delegates gathered from around the globe to speak to this particularly global theme, and there can be few more beautiful or historically rich settings for such a gathering than the shadow of Arthur’s Seat in the heart of Edinburgh.

What does your stuff say about you?

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a scholar seeking to build a career must be in want of a public engagement opportunity. It was with something like this in mind that a colleague and I found ourselves behind the scenes in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, several months ago. Both members of an ERC-funded project…

Patristics and Europe in 1951

Originally posted on Patristics 1954:
Closed for business. Snack bar on Avenue Robert Schuman. Photograph by me. “… since we are gathered here on the soil of Great Britain, how could we not call to mind a model or antitype of the labour we’re now doing: the work completed in the ‘dark ages’ by the scotti monasteries,…

Letter from Lisbon

I am here attending the annual meeting of CIHEC (Commission internationale d’histoire ecclésiastique comparée) as the Society’s representative. It seems a fitting close to what has been a very interesting and intellectually fulfilling year as President. The day before yesterday I made an overdue visit to the Museum of São Roque, where many of the…

Translating Christianity Virtual Exhibition

Above you can access our virtual exhibition, curated by Bethany Hume from the collections of the Old Palace, York Minster, in collaboration with the Ecclesiastical History Society and the University of York. To browse through the images and zoom upon them in greater detail, see the University of York Digital Libraries website.