Ali Bonner, Lecturer in Celtic History, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge

After reading Classics at Oxford Ali Bonner worked in television, before studying Anglo Saxon, Norse, and Celtic in Cambridge, where she gained a BA (Aff.) and MPhil, followed by a PhD on the manuscript transmission of Pelagius' Letter to Demetrias. Subsequently she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, before being appointed to the Lectureship in Celtic History at Cambridge. Her research focuses on Pelagius and Faustus of Riez, two British authors of the fifth century who wrote in Latin, and she has published on St Patrick and Pelagius. She currently teaches on Celtic history, that is, the history of the Brittonic speaking peoples and the Gaelic speaking peoples from AD 380 to 1170.

"In the years to come, Bonner's work will serve as a reference point in the debates about the Pelagian controversy and this reviewer is looking forward to the reactions of experts in the field of Augustinian studies, for the Augustine as presented here might be questioned by them. This too is a reason to be grateful to Bonner and her outspoken positions." - Mathijs Lamberigts, Early Medieval Europe

"...this study offers important and valuable new impulses and perspectives, and can therefore be recommended as a substantial contribution to the study of Pelagius and his works and thought." - Josef Lössl, Cardiff University, Journal of Ecclesiastical History

"The Myth of Pelagianism is an impressive and provocative book that will become required reading for historians, theologians, and classicists studying the late fourth and fifth centuries. Ali Bonner is to be commended for her initiative and command of the sources. In short, highly recommended." - Christopher M. Blunda, Assistant Professor of history at the Virginia Military Institute, Reading Religion