Clare Stancliffe
Honorary Reader
Department of History
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
In 2000 he was made an Honorary Reader in Ecclesiastical History in the Departments of History and of Theology & Religion. He originally came to Durham in 1981 and was made an Honorary Lecturer in the Theology Department the following year. He have also held a Research Fellowship in the History Department (1984-86), and taught in both departments at undergraduate and postgraduate levels on topics which include the early Irish church and Christian Northumbria 600-800.
Research Interest
Research Interests include Christianity in Britain, especially Northumbria, to c. 800, Early Irish Church, Early western hagiography and Relations between the Britons and Anglo-Saxons in the early middle ages.
Publications
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Stancliffe, Clare E. (1980). Kings and Conversion: Some Comparisons between the Roman Mission to England and Patricks to Ireland. Frhmittelalterliche Studien 14: 59-94.
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Stancliffe, Clare (1996). Venantius Fortunatus, Ireland, Jerome: The Evidence of precamur patrem. Peritia 10: 91-97.
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Stancliffe, Clare (2009). Creator and Creation: A Preliminary Investigation of Early Irish Views and their Relationship to Biblical and Patristic Traditions. Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 58: 9-27.
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Stancliffe, Clare (2013). Disputed Episcopacy: Bede, Acca, and the Relationship between Stephens Life of St Wilfrid and the early prose Lives of St Cuthbert. Anglo-Saxon England 41: 7-39.
