Simon Ditchfield

Ditchfield completed his undergraduate studies at the University of York, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1980. He then received Master of Philosophy (1987) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees from the Warburg Institute; his PhD was awarded in 1991 for his thesis Hagiography and Ecclesiastical Historiography in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Italy: Pietro Maria Campi of Piacenza (1569–1649).^[1][2][3]

He returned to the University of York in 1991 as a British Academy post-doctoral fellow, and has remained there ever since; after completing his fellowship, he was appointed a temporary lecturer in 1994, and then from 1996 to 1999 he was a project director in the department of the Heritage studies as applied history project ; he was then appointed to a full lectureship (1998), and was promoted to a senior lectureship in 2002, a readership in 2006, and to a professorship in 2014.^[1][3]

Ditchfield's research focuses on urban and religious culture in Italy from around 1300 to around 1800.^[1] He was president of the Ecclesiastical History Society for the 2015–16 year^[4] and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.^[3]

• Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy: Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular, Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
• (Co-editor with John Arnold and Kate Davies), History and Heritage: consuming the past in contemporary culture (Donhead Publishing, 1998)
• (Editor) Christianity and Community in the West: Essays for John Bossy (Ashgate, 2001).
• (Co-author with Anna Benvenuti, Sofia Boesch Gajano, Roberto Rusconi, Francesco Scorza Barcellona and Gabriella Zarri) Storia della Santità nel Cristianesimo Occidentale (Viella, 2005).
• (Co-editor with Kate van Liere and Howard Louthan) Sacred History: Uses of the Christian Past in the Renaissance World (Oxford University Press, 2012).
• (Co-editor with Helen Smith) Conversions: Gender and Religious Change in Early Modern Europe (Manchester University Press, 2017).
• Ditchfield, Simon; Methuen, Charlotte; Spicer, Andrew, eds. (2017). Translating Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1108419246.
• (Co-editor with Pamela M. Jones and Barbara Wisch), A Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492-1692, (Brill, 2019)