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Ali Bonner

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Dr Ali Bonner, Oxford, August 2024

Ali Bonner is Associate Professor of Celtic History in the Medieval period in the Department for Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Cambridge University. She is a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge. Bonner is a specialist on Pelagius and the manuscript transmission of his writings, as well as ascetic literature of the fourth and fifth centuries CE.  

Education

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Bonner was awarded her PhD from the Department for Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge University in 2012. Her doctoral thesis was The Scale, Context, and Implications, of the Manuscript Transmission of Pelagius' Ad Demetriadem.[1] She studied for a BA and MA at Cambridge, as well as reading Classics at Oxford University.[2]

Research

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Bonner published a monograph, The Myth of Pelagianism, with the British Academy in 2018.[3] The volume was reviewed by Professor Josef Lössl as 'important and valuable' and can 'be recommended as a substantial contribution to the study of Pelagius and his works and thought.'[4] Bonner wrote the article, 'In Praise of Pelagius', for the Church Times on the publication of her monograph.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "The Scale, Context, and Implications, of the Manuscript Transmission of Pelagius". Retrieved 2024-08-10.
  2. ^ "The Myth of Pelagianism". Retrieved 2024-08-10.
  3. ^ "The Myth of Pelagianism". Retrieved 2024-08-10.
  4. ^ "The Myth of Pelagianism". Retrieved 2024-08-10.
  5. ^ "In praise of Pelagius". www.churchtimes.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-08-10.