Dr Conrad Leyser MA, DPhil
Subjects:
Department:
Faculty of History
College office:
Lightbody Fellow and Clarendon Associate Professor 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.