The first of two Public Lectures as part of our Franciscan Studies Summer School is by Professor John McCafferty (UCD) who will talking on ‘Sandals, Spaniards and Scotus: Defending Francis and his Friars 400 Years After his Death’.
Date: Wednesday 11 June 2025, from 6.00pm.
Location: Online.
Tickets: £5, free to those registered on Week 1 of the Franciscan Studies Online Summer School
John McCafferty is a Professor of History at UCD and a Honorary Professor at CCS Durham. His research is concerned with religious change in early modern Ireland and Britain with special reference to the role of the Franciscan family. He is General Editor with James Kelly of the Oxford History of British & Irish Catholicism (2023). He is Chair of the Irish Manuscripts Commission and Director of the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute. He is also President of the Board of the Collegium Sancti Bonaventurae (Quaracchi), Rome.
All are welcome.
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For any queries about the two online public lectures, please email: ccsfranciscan.admin@durham.ac.uk.