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M. C. Cross
Born1932
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Institutions

M. Claire Cross FSA FRHistS is a British historian and professor emeritus in history at the University of York. She was president of the Ecclesiastical History Society from 1989 to 1990.

Education

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Cross studied at the University of Cambridge before becoming county archivist for Cambridgeshire. Cross also studied at the Huntingdon Library in California, then held a research fellowship at the University of Reading before becoming lecturer at the University of York (1965-2000).[1]

Career

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In 1958, Cross was appointed the County Archivist for Cambridgeshire.[2]

Cross was a visiting fellow at Girton College, Cambridge from 1990 to 1991. She was president of the Ecclesiastical History Society from 1989 to 1990 and the Society presented her with a festschrift, Life and Thought in the Northern Church, c.1100-1700 in 1999 and made her an honorary fellow in 2000. Cross was chair and later vice-president of the British Association for Local History.[1][3]

Awards and recognition

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Cross was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Royal Historical Society, Historical Association, and was awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the University of Lincoln.[1]

Publications

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  • Church and people, 1450-1660 : the triumph of the laity in the English church (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1976; second edition 1999)
  • The royal supremacy in the Elizabethan Church (London, Allen & Unwin; New York, Barnes & Noble, 1969)
  • (and D. M. Loades,J. J. Scarisbrick), Law and government under the Tudors: essays presented to Sir Geoffrey Elton, Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge, on the occasion of his retirement (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
  • The puritan Earl: the life of Henry Hastings, third Earl of Huntingdon, 1536-1595 (London, Melbourne Macmillan; New York, St. Martin's P., 1966)
  • Urban magistrates and ministers: religion in Hull and Leeds from the Reformation to the Civil War (Borthwick Papers No. 67, York: University of York, 1985).
  • The Free Grammar School of Leicester (Leicester University Press, 1953)
  • The Letters of Sir Francis Hastings, 1574-1609, Somerset Record Society (1969)
  • York Clergy Wills 1520-1600: 1 The Minster Clergy, Borthwick Texts and Calendars: Records of the Northern Province, 10 (York, 1984).
  • York Clergy Wills 1520-1600: 2. The City Clergy, Borthwick Texts and Calendars: Records of the Northern Province 15 (York, 1989).

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Claire Cross - History, University of York". www.york.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Claire Cross - Department of History, University of York". www.york.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  3. ^ Dobson, Barrie (1999). "Claire Cross: A Tribute". Studies in Church History Subsidia. 12: 1–9. doi:10.1017/S0143045900002416. ISSN 0143-0459.
Professional and academic associations
Preceded by President of the Ecclesiastical History Society
1989–90
Succeeded by