Birkbeck Lectures 2026 – Ecclesiastical History in Early Modern Europe: Forms, Practices, Contexts — History by Committee: Flacius Illyricus and the Magdeburg Centuries

A Birkbeck Lecture by Professor Anthony Grafton of Princeton University on ecclesiastical history and the Magdeburg Centuries in early modern Europe.

This lecture is part of the Birkbeck Lectures 2026 series on ecclesiastical history in early modern Europe, delivered by Professor Anthony Grafton of Princeton University. The 27 October lecture, 'History by Committee: Flacius Illyricus and the Magdeburg Centuries', examines the collaborative production of church history in the Reformation era. It follows earlier lectures in the series on Renaissance material histories and Reformation ecclesiastical histories.