Saturday 28 March 2015
Archbishop Ussher Correspondence Published
Next Monday, in what may prove to be one of the publishing events of the year, the long awaited edition of the correspondence of Archbishop James Ussher will be launched in the Long Room of Trinity College Library by Mordechai Feingold, Professor of History at California Institute of Technology. The launch will be preceded by a seminar at which the principal speaker will be Alan Ford, Professor of Theology in the University of Nottingham, whose seminal work, James Ussher: theology, history and politics in early–modern Ireland and England was published by Oxford University Press in 2007.
Ussher, one of the first undergraduates in Trinity College, was elected to fellowship in 1600, and held the professorship of Divinity from 1607 to 1621. Successively Bishop of Meath and Archbishop of Armagh, he has been described as one of the most influential intellectuals of early modern Europe. His correspondence not only reflects his political and ecclesiastical role as head of the Church of Ireland but also reveals his pivotal role in Irish, British and European intellectual life.
The Correspondence of James Ussher, 1600–1656, has been edited by Dr Elizabethanne Boran, Librarian of the Edward Worth Library, and has …read more
Read the full article here: http://ireland.anglican.org/index.php?do=news&newsid=5614
