History of Christianity Research Seminars
This seminar is open to senior members and graduate students of the University. Others interested in attending should contact one of the convenors. The Seminar Chair is Professor Richard Rex.
The History of Christianity Seminar meets on alternate Wednesdays during term to hear and discuss research papers on any aspect of the history of Christianity from the medieval to the contemporary period. We aim for a mixture of subjects and speakers (both established researchers and doctoral students, from inside and outside Cambridge) through the academic year.
We welcome papers by speakers from outside Cambridge, and especially from scholars based overseas but visiting the United Kingdom for academic purposes. We can reimburse speakers’ travel expenses within the UK at a reasonable rate (i.e. standard class rail fares, taxis, etc). Recent outside speakers have included Mark Noll, Tom Mayer, Brad Gregory, and Robert Ventresca. If you would like to offer a paper to the seminar, please contact one of the convenors.
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Convenors:
- Professor Richard Rex, Professor of Reformation History (Queens' College)
- Dr Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe, Lecturer in Patristics
- Dr Simone Maghenzani (Girton College)
MichaelmasTerm 2025
Meetings will be held in the
Erasmus Room in Queens’ College
on Wednesdays at 2.15pm.
22 October
Euan Cameron (Union Theological Seminary / Columbia University)
How the Bible shaped the writing of world history in the Reformation
5 November
George Palmer (Emmanuel College)
Upholding the ‘National Church’: Church Defence,
Church History, and Church Reform in England and Wales, 1885-1914
19 November
Sarah Parvis (University of Edinburgh)
The Council of Nicaea (title to be confirmed)
3 December
Rebecca Rist (University of Reading)
Medieval ‘Antipopes’ and the Rhetoric of Schism:
the Case of Anacletus II (1130-1138)