Contact details
- Name:
- Dr Alan Thacker
- Qualifications:
- MA, DPhil (Oxon)
- Position/Fellowship type:
- Senior Research Fellow
- Institute:
- Institute of Historical Research
- Location:
- The Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
- Phone:
- 020 7862 8778
- Email address:
- alan.thacker@sas.ac.uk
- Website:
- http://www.history.ac.uk/about/alan-thacker
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- Medieval History
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
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Intellectual and cultural life in early medieval western Europe, especially the early medieval church; local and regional history, especially towns in the earlier middle ages; hagiography, saints' cults, and pastoral care in the early middle ages; Bede as historian, exegete and reformer; medieval Chester
- Publication Details
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Related publications/articles:
Date Details 01-Jan-2011 Bede and his martyrology Chapters
in Listen, O Isles, Unto Me.’ Studies in Medieval Word and Image in Honour of Jennifer O’Reilly, ed. Elizabeth Mullins and Diarmuid Scully (Cork: Cork University Press, 2011), pp. 126-41, 350-3
01-Jan-2011 Popes, patriarchs and archbishops and the origins of the cult of the martyrs in northern Italy Chapters
in Saints and Sanctity, ed. Peter Clarke and Tony Claydon, Studies in Church History 47 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2011), pp. 51-79
- Relevant Events
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Related events:
Date Details 01-Jan-2011 The origins and development of Rome’s martyr cults. A context for Sant’Agnese in agone international conference at L’École Française de Rome
01-Jan-2011 Bede and Heresy Leeds International Medieval Congress and to be published in Bede and the Future, ed. Peter Darby and Faith Wallis, Studies in Early Medieval Britain (Aldershot: Leicester University Press)
01-Jan-2011 Chromatius of Aquileia University of Oxford (Late Antique Seminar)