Dr Conrad Leyser MA, DPhil

Subjects: 
Department: 
Associate Professor of Medieval History; Faculty of History
College office: 
Lightbody Fellow and Tutor in History, Deputy Dean of Degrees, Financial Aid Officer
Research interests: 

Conrad Leyser specialises in the religious and social history of the Latin West in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages (300-1100). His current research project centres on celibacy and the professionalisation of the priesthood in the so-called 'unreformed' Church of the tenth century.

Selected publications: 

He is the author of Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great and the co-editor of England and the Continent in the Tenth Century.