The 3rd Geneva Tyndale Conference



About the Speakers

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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