Professor Ronald Hutton FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2013
- Subjects
- History, Religion
- Sections
- Archaeology , Early Modern History to 1850
Summary
I was born in India of mixed British and Russian parentage, and mostly brought up in England. I took degrees at Cambridge and then Oxford, and held a fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford, before moving to Bristol University in 1981. I have remained there ever since. I started my career as a historian of early modern Britain, and remain one, but have branched out to acquire interests in the history of paganism, witchcraft and magic and of attitudes to them. I am presently at work on a study of the witch figure.
Current post
Professor of History, University of Bristol
Publications
The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
Ronald Hutton - Published in 2017 by Yale University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Daniel Potts FBA
The archaeology and history of the Near East, particularly the Iranian world, from antiquity to the pre-modern era
Professor Lauren Benton FBA
The global history of European empires; legal history of the British and Spanish empires; the history of international law; legal theory.
Professor Stuart Carroll FBA
Stuart works on the histories of violence, social relations, law, and the emotions in early modern Europe. He is currently working on the Invention of Civil Society, the sequel to Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe (2023).
