Constantine's Vision and the Church Today

The 28th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture, given by Professor Dame Averil Cameron FBA FKC, former Warden of Keeble College, Oxford

From the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (AD 312) to the twenty-first century.

Speaker: Professor Dame Averil Cameron FSA FKC, Former Warden of Keble College, Oxford

Dame Averil Cameron held two professorial appointments in succession at King’s College London, where she was also the first Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies. In 1994 she moved to Oxford to become Warden of Keble College Oxford (the position held in the 1950s by Eric Symes Abbott). Among her many books and articles are several dealing with the Emperor Constantine, who provides the starting point of her lecture. She retired in 2010 but remains very active academically, writing on early Christianity, late antiquity and Byzantium. She was also Vice-chair and Chair successively of the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England and was invited to chair the Review of the Royal Peculiars (including Westminster Abbey), which issued its report in 2001.

Eric Abbott was Dean of Westminster between 1959 and 1974. Previously he was Dean at King's College, London (1945-55), Chaplain to King George VI and HM Queen Elizabeth II, and the warden of Kebel College, Oxford. The lecture is repeated each year at Keble College. He died in 1983 and was buried in the Abbey’s Nave. A memorial trust was endowed by his friends to provide for an annual lecture on spirituality and the first lecture was held in 1986.

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