Simon Ditchfield is a Professor in the History Department. His research interests all relate to perceptions and uses of the past in previous societies, but particularly within the context of urban and religious culture in the Italian peninsula from c. 1300-1800.
He collaborates extensively with scholars in Europe and beyond and is on the international editorial boards of «Rivista di storia de Cristianesimo» (Brescia), «Church History and Religious Culture» (Amsterdam), «Cheiron» (Milan) and «Sanctorum: rivista dell'associazione per lo studio della santità, dei culti e dell'agiografia» (Rome), and is a co-editor of the series Sacro/santo (published by Viella, Rome).
