User:EmyP/Norman Tanner

Needs redirects? Norman Tanner Society of Jesuits (b. 1943) is a Jesuit priest and ecclesiastical historian.

Life
Born in England during the World War II, Tanner grew up in Surrey. He attended school first at Woldingham Convent (now Woldingham School), then Avisford Roman Catholic Preparatory School for Boys in Walberton (now the Hilton Avisford Park Hotel), before entering Ampleforth College. In 1961 he joined the Jesuits as a novice before heading to university. He was ordained as a priest in 1976 after completing his doctorate and further studies in theology at Rome. His first post was as a curate in the parish of Farm Street, in Mayfair, London.

Academic Career

 * Philosophy at Heythrop College (1961?)
 * MA? History at University of Oxford
 * DPhil Church history at Oxford (1974)
 * Thesis title: Popular religion in Norwich with special reference to the evidence of wills, 1370-1532


 * Digitised as part of a Bodleian Library programme funded by Dr. Leonard Polonsky in March 2011
 * Theology at Gregorian University, Rome
 * 1978: Began teaching at Campion Hall, Oxford
 * 2003: Moved from Oxford to teach at the Gregorian University in Rome.
 * 2015: Moved to New York to write for the weekly Jesuit journal America Magazine

Not dead.

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Subjects:
 * Medieval Norwich
 * Religion in Medieval England
 * ?British Jesuits