Clare Stancliffe

Clare Stancliffe is a historian and Medievalist. She teaches in Ecclesiastical History in the Departments of History and of Theology & Religion at Durham University.^[1] She is known for developing the idea of The colors of martyrdom,^[2] in early Irish Christianity.

She is author of numerous books including:

• Clare Stancliffe, "Red, White and Blue Martyrdom," in Ireland in Early Mediaeval Europe. Studies in memory of Kathleen Hughes (Cambridge University Press, 1982),
• Clare Stancliffe, "Cuthbert and the Polarity between Pastor and Solitary", in Bonner, Gerald; , Rollason, David; Stancliffe, Clare, St Cuthbert, His Cult and His Community to AD 1200, (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1989), pp. 21–44,
• Clare Stancliffe, "Oswald: Most Holy and Most Victorious King of the Northumbrians" in Clare Stancliffe & Eric Cambridge (eds) Oswald: Northumbrian King to European Saint. Paul Watkins, (Stamford, 1995).
• Clare Stancliffe, "Where Was Oswald Killed?", in C. Stancliffe and E. Cambridge (ed.), Oswald: Northumbrian King to European Saint (1995, 1996).
• Clare Stancliffe, "St Martin and his hagiographer: History and miracle in Sulpicius Severus" (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1983),
• Clare Stancliffe, Bede, Wilfrid, and the Irish. Jarrow Lecture 46 (2003). Jarrow, UK: St Paul's Church Jarrow.
• Clare Stancliffe, "Patrick (fl. 5th cent.), patron saint of Ireland"(2004), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,
• Clare Stancliffe, The Miracle Stories in Seventh-century Irish Saints' Lives (1992)

References

1. Dr Clare Stancliffe at Durham University.
2. Clare Stancliffe, "Red, White and Blue Martyrdom," in Ireland in Early Mediaeval Europe. Studies in memory of Kathleen Hughes (Cambridge University Press, 1982), passim, especially pp. 29, 35 and 41.