Professor Andrew
Pettegree
Andrew Pettegree is Director of Reformation Studies Institute and
Professor in the Department of Modern History at the University
of St Andrews, Scotland. After studying in Oxford, Hamburg and
Cambridge, he has taught in St Andrews since 1986. His scholarly
interests and writings have focused on Dutch and French
Calvinism, on the English Reformation and on the printing history
of the Reformation. He has recently completed a survey of the
Reformation, The Reformation World (published in
2000) and has also recently published a general textbook on the
Sixteenth Century for Blackwell. He is an editor of the St
Andrews Studies in Reformation History, and director of the
Institute's collaborative Sixteenth Century French Religious Book
project. He is an associate editor of Reformation (the academic journal of the
Tyndale Society).
Professor Francis
Higman
Francis Higman studied French and German at Oxford University,
specializing in the style of John Calvin's French writings for
his thesis. After holding various positions in the Universities
of Bristol, Dublin and Nottingham he was appointed in 1988 as
Director of the Institute for the History of the Reformation in
Geneva, where he was able wholeheartedly to pursue his study of
Calvin. His publications include studies of censorship in 16th
century France, the spread of the French Reformation and
religious printing in French in the early Reformation. To mark
his retirement in 1998, a collection of his major articles
Lire et Découvrir: La circulation des idées au temps de la
Réforme with a preface by Jean-François Gilmont was
published by Libraire Droz, Geneva.
Professor David
Daniell
David Daniell is Emeritus Professor of English in the University
of London, an Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford and St.
Catherine's College, Oxford. He was for twenty-five years in
charge of Shakespeare studies at all levels at University
College, London. He is author of over seventy books and journal
essays, mainly on Shakespeare and the English Bible. He has
toured with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and made many
broadcasts (radio and television) in Europe and America.
In 1994 he published the first full biography of William Tyndale for sixty years from Yale University Press. His modern spelling editions of Tyndale's New and Old Testaments came also from Yale University Press in 1989 and 1992. He was curator of the British Library's Tyndale Let There Be Light Exhibition, seen in London, California, New York and in the Library of Congress by a total of a quarter of a million people. He is Chairman of the Tyndale Society, which has a worldwide membership. His edition of Tyndale's Obedience of a Christian Man was published in 2000 by Penguin Classics. His Arden edition of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar was published in 1998. His latest book The Bible in English:Its History and Influence was published by Yale University Press in May 2003.
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