Timothy Barnes (classicist)
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Occupation | Historian |
Employer | University of Edinburgh |
Awards | Conington Prize, Philip Schaff Prize |
Timothy David Barnes FBA FRSC (born 13 March 1942) is a British classicist.
Biography
Barnes was born in
Conington prize
.
On receiving his doctorate he was immediately appointed
University of Trinity College. He delivered the Townsend Lectures at Cornell University
in 1994.
In 1982 he was awarded both the
American Philological Association. In 1985 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 2009 Foreign Member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters
.
In December 2007, he officially retired from the University of Toronto, and returned to the United Kingdom. He is currently an honorary fellow at the University of Edinburgh's School of Divinity,[2] working with the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins.[3]
Most of Barnes's work has concerned the position of
Church
and the working in practice of the latter. Many of his articles have challenged traditionally held chronologies and explored the implications of fresh dating.
Selected works
- Barnes, Timothy D (1971), Tertullian a historical and literary study, Oxford Clarendon Press, OCLC 265040582
- Barnes, Timothy David (1978), The sources of the Historia Augusta, Latomus, ISBN 978-2-87031-005-2
- Barnes, Timothy David (1981), Constantine and Eusebius, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-16531-1
- Barnes, Timothy David (1982), The new empire of Diocletian and Constantine, London, ISBN 0-7837-2221-4
- Barnes, Timothy David (1984), Early Christianity and the Roman Empire, CS 207, Variorum Reprints, OCLC 251547581
- Barnes, Timothy David (1993), Athanasius and Constantius : theology and politics in the Constantinian empire, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-00549-5
- Barnes, Timothy D (1994), From Eusebius to Augustine : selected papers 1982 – 1993, Collected studies series, 438, Aldershot Variorum, OCLC 260175509
- Barnes, Timothy David (1998), Ammianus Marcellinus and the representation of historical reality, Cornell studies in classical philology, v. 56., Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-3526-3
Notes
- ^ ASCH Schaff Prize Archived 7 May 2012 at archive.today. American Society of Church History. Accessed 20 September 2008.
- ^ Academic Staff in the School of Divinity Archived 8 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine. University of Edinburgh, 2009. Accessed 27 September 2009.
- ^ Academic Staff Principally Involved with the CSCO Archived 11 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine. University of Edinburgh, 2009. Accessed 27 September 2009.
References
- "Timothy David BARNES". Canadian Who's Who. University of Toronto Press. 1997.[permanent dead link]