Norman Sykes (priest)
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Norman Sykes FBA (1897–1961) was a priest in Anglican orders, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and sometime Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge (1944).
A principal contention of his studies was to engage a more positive re-evaluation of the eighteenth century Church of England.
His effective use of archives was demonstrated with the papers of William Wake held at Christ Church, Oxford prior to publication of his two-volume work devoted to that archbishop.
Works include
- William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury 1657-1757, 2 vols., Cambridge 1957
- From Sheldon to Secker, Aspects of English Church History 1660-1757 (based on Ford Lectures given at Oxford 1958), Cambridge 1959, 2004
- Old Priest and New Presbyter: The Anglican attitude to episcopacy, presbyterianism and papacy since the Reformation, Cambridge 1956
- Church and State in the XVIIIth Century (expanded from Birkbeck Lectures 1931-1933], Cambridge 1934, 1962
- Man as Churchman (based on lectures given at Belfast 1959), New York, Cambridge 1960
