Eric Fernie

Eric Campbell Fernie (born 9 June 1939, Edinburgh) is a Scottish art historian.

Education Fernie was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand (BA Hons Fine Arts) and the University of London (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 Institute from 1995 to 2003 and was President of the Society of Antiquaries of London 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.