Eric Fernie
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Eric Campbell Fernie is a Scottish art historian.
(BA Hons Fine Arts) and the University of London
(Academic Diploma).
from 1995 to 2003 and was President of the Society of Antiquaries of London
from 2004 to 2007.
Education
Fernie was educated at the University of the WitwatersrandUniversity of the Witwatersrand
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg is a South African university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg. It is more commonly known as Wits University...
(BA Hons Fine Arts) and the University of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
(Academic Diploma).
Career
Fernie has had a long career in the academic and art worlds, occupying a number of important posts. He was Director of the Courtauld InstituteCourtauld Institute of Art
The Courtauld Institute of Art is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art. The Courtauld is one of the premier centres for the teaching of art history in the world; it was the only History of Art department in the UK to be awarded a top...
from 1995 to 2003 and was President of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Society of Antiquaries of London
The Society of Antiquaries of London is a learned society "charged by its Royal Charter of 1751 with 'the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries'." It is based at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London , and is...
from 2004 to 2007.
Publications
- An Introduction to the Communar and Pitcaner Rolls of Norwich Cathedral Priory, 1973. (With A.B. Whittingham)
- The Architecture of the Anglo-Saxons, 1983.
- Medieval Architecture and its Intellectual Context, 1990.
- An Architectural History of Norwich Cathedral, 1993.
- Art History and its Methods, 1995.
- The Architecture of Norman England, 2000.