Honorary Fellowship: Timothy Barnes

Professor Timothy Barnes has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship in the College of Humanities & Social Science.

Professor Barnes is an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Divinity. He was previously Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of History, Classics & Archaeology.

He is also Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto.

Research

Professor Barnes’ current research concerns the Theodosian Code of 437 as evidence for the period before 380.

He has previously conducted a historical and literary study of the early Christian writer Tertullian, who lived in Roman Carthage c.200.

He has also studied Eusebius of Caesarea, the period of Diocletian and Constantine, the career of Athanasius, who was bishop of Alexandria on and off from 328 to 373, and Ammianus Marcellinus’ history of the period 353-378.

Other research includes the historical value of early Christian hagiography and an interpretation of Constantine as a reforming Christian emperor.

Biography

Professor Barnes was educated at Wakefield Grammar School and at the University of Oxford. He spent 10 years at Oxford, studying at Balliol College before becoming a research fellow at Queen’s College.

He moved to Canada in 1970, joining the University of Toronto where he taught Classics until his retirement at the end of 2007.

Professor Barnes is widely published. He has written more than 150 scholarly articles, is the author of a dozen books and has contributed to many more.

He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Canada.