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 Dr Karl Ubl FBA

History of medieval political thought; comparative work on law and legalities in the early Middle Ages; punishment and the construction of authority

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Professor Samuel Lieu FBA

History of religions, especially of Manichaeism and Christianity, in Central Asia and China; history of Late Roman and Early Byzantine Near East; history of the Silk Road

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Professor Alison Salvesen FBA

Early Jewish and Christian translation and reception of the Hebrew Bible (third century BCE – eighth century CE)

Headshot of Professor Alice Grace Salveson FBA

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