John Bossy
John Bossy | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 April 1933 Edmonton, North London |
| Died | 23 October 2015 (aged 82) |
| Nationality | British |
| Awards | CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction, Wolfson History Prize |
| Academic background | |
| Education | St Ignatius college, Stamford Hill, North London |
| Alma mater | Queens' College, Cambridge |
| Thesis | Elizabethan Catholicism: The Link with France (1961) |
| Influences | Walter Ullmann |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian |
| Sub-discipline | Early-modernist |
| Notable works | Christianity in the West, 1400-1700 (1985) |
| Notable ideas | "social miracle", "migration of the holy" |
John Antony Bossy FBA (30 April 1933 – 23 October 2015) was a British historian who was a professor of history at the University of York.