Professor Charles Burnett FBA

History
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1998
Subjects
Medieval studies, Religion

Current post

Professor of the History of Islamic Influences in Europe, The Warburg Institute, University of London

Past appointments

The Warburg Institute, University of London Lecturer, Professor of the History of Islamic Influences in Europe

1985 -

The Warburg Institute, University of London Professor of the History of Islamic Influences in Europe

1985 -

The University of Sheffield Leverhulme Research Fellow, Department of History

1982 - 1985

The Warburg Institute, University of London Senior Research Fellow

1979 - 1982

St John's College University of Cambridge Scholar, Research Student and Research Fellow

1969 - 1979

Publications

Magic and divination in the Middle Ages: texts and techniques in the Islamic and Christian worlds 1996

The introduction of Arabic learning into England 1997

Adelard of Bath, conversations with his nephew 1998

Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages: The Translators and their Intellectual and Social Context

Numerals and Arithmetic in the Middle Ages Variorum Collected Studies Series, Farnham, 2010, 380 pp

Islam and Tibet: Interactions along the Musk Routes 2011

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Henrietta Harrison FBA

The social and cultural history of China from the Qing through to the present, especially rural north China, links between transnational and local history, religion, diplomacy and revolution

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Professor Helena Francisca Hamerow FBA

The archaeology and rural economy of early medieval Europe, especially the North Sea zone

Helena Francisca Hamerow FBA

Professor Mark Edwards FBA

Religious mentality of the late Roman world (250-550 A.D,), with special emphasis on theological tendencies in philosophy and the philosophical elements of Christian thought

Mark Edwards FBA

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