Claire Cross

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 in 1989-90.

Education[]

Cross studied at the University of Cambridge before becoming county archivist for Cambridgeshire. She 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[]

She was a visiting fellow at Girton College, Cambridge in 1990-91. She was president of the Ecclesiastical History Society in 1989-90 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][2]

Awards and recognitions[]

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]

Bibliography[]

• 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).

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