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 Alec Ryrie FBA

Alec Ryrie is a historian of Protestant Christianity in general and of religion in early modern England and Scotland in particular. He is interested in the cultural, social, political and emotional history of religion, and has written on subjects including faith and doubt; martyrdom, violence and religious warfare; magic and deception; moderation and radicalism; childhood religious experience; and liturgy and prayer, formal and informal. He is currently researching the early history of global Protestant missions. He is co-editor of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History and (in 2019-20) president of the Ecclesiastical History Society. He is also a licensed Reader in the Church of England.

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Professor Bruce Campbell FBA

The economic history of late-medieval Britain and Ireland, with particular reference to human-environment interactions during the 14th century and trends in agricultural output and productivity from the 13th to 19th centuries

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Professor Michael Snape

Religion, war and society in the English-speaking world, c.1700 to the present day, with a particular focus on the experience of military service.

Michael Snape FBA

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