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Edward Lewes Cutts
1824–1901
A Victorian clergyman and antiquarian, he wrote lively, accessible books that opened up church history, medieval life, and early Christian art for general readers. His work blends scholarship with a clear wish to make the past understandable.
2 Audiobooks
Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England
by Edward Lewes Cutts
Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition
by Edward Lewes Cutts
About the author
Born in Sheffield in 1824, Edward Lewes Cutts was an English writer, antiquarian, and Church of England clergyman. He studied at Queens' College, Cambridge, graduated in 1848, and was ordained the same year.
Alongside his church career, he became known for writing about archaeology, ecclesiastical history, and the everyday world of the Middle Ages. His books include Turning Points of English Church History, Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England, and A Dictionary of the Church of England, works that helped bring historical subjects to a broad readership.
Cutts died in 1901. Remembered for combining clerical experience with a strong interest in history and material culture, he remains a useful guide to how Victorian readers understood the English church and the medieval past.