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Mark Smith

University of Oxford

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Affiliations

  • University Lecturer and Director of Studies in Local and Social History, University of Oxford

Biography

Mark Smith was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, BA (1982), D.Phil. (1987). He was formerly Lecturer in the Modern History of Christianity at King’s College London and is now University Lecturer and Director of Studies in Local and Social History.

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GFI Writings

Mark Smith

University of Oxford

Love and the Practice and Promise of History

In considering how briefly to respond to Professor O’Donovan’s Brief from the perspective of my own discipline – that of historical research and writing – a constructive point of convergence is with part of the working definition that he offers: love as ‘ directive attention to the good of persons’ …

Disciplinary BriefLoveHumanities7 min