Professor Alastair Hamilton FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2004
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Early Modern History to 1850
Summary
Alastair Hamilton was born in Barnet on 20 May 1941. He was educated at Eton and King's College Cambridge, where he read Modern Languages and received his PhD in Divinity in 1982. In 1977 He was appointed to lecture in English literature at the University of Urbino in Italy. Having specialised in the study of the Radical Reformation and Western relations with the Arab world, he became the Dr C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Professor of the History of Ideas at the University of Leiden in Holland in 1985, and in 1987 Professor of the History of the Radical Reformation (Anabaptistica) at the University of Amsterdam. In 2003 he was awarded an S.T. Lee Fellowship and in 2004 was appointed the Arcadian Visiting Research Professor at the School of Advanced Study, London University, attached to the Warburg Institute.
Current post
Senior Research Fellow, The Warburg Institute, University of London
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Laura Gowing FBA
The history of women, gender, language and law in England 1500-1750; early modern London; history of the body; LGBTQ history
Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam FBA
History of South Asia and the Indian Ocean world; early modern empires and their interaction in the framework of 'connected histories'
Professor Brian Cummings FBA
Renaissance humanism and European literature 1450-1700; the history of religion in relation to the history of the book; literary theory and the history of philosophy
