Professor Ian Maclean FBA

History
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1994
Subjects
History, Modern languages

Summary

Ian Maclean is Emeritus Professor of Renaissance studies at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College. He graduated in Modern Languages from Oxford, where he also took his doctorate, and taught at the University of Leeds and the Queen's College, Oxford before becoming a Senior Research Fellow in History at All Souls College in 1996; he was Fellow Librarian from 1998 to 2015. He has held visiting positions in America, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands and France.

Current post

Titular Professor of Renaissance Studies Emeritus, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford

Past appointments

All Souls College, Oxford Titular Professor of Renaissance Studies Emeritus, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford

2016 -

All Souls College University of Oxford Senior Research Fellow in History

1996 - 2012

University of Oxford Professor of Renaissance Studies

1996 - 2012

Queen's College University of Oxford Fellow and Praelector in French

1972 - 1996

University of Leeds Lecturer in French

1969 - 1972

Publications

The Renaissance notion of woman 1980

Meaning and interpretation in the Renaissance: the case of law 1992

Montaigne philosophe, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 1996

Logic, signs and nature in the Renaissance: the case of learned medicine 2001

Le monde et les hommes selon les médecins de la Renaissance, Paris 2006

Scholarship, Commerce, Religion: the learned book in the age of Confessions, 1560-1630 2012

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Virginia Cox FBA

Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italian literature and culture; history of the reception of classical rhetoric, 13th to 16th centuries; gender history and women’s writing

Professor Virginia Cox FBA

Dr Felicity Heal FBA

British social and religious history of the C16th and C17th; social practices of elites, especially hospitality and gift-exchange; the political and cultural nature of religious identity in Britain and Ireland

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Professor Isabel Torres FBA

Early modern Spanish literature and culture: especially the re-appraisal of Renaissance and Baroque poetry/poetics; lyric theories /practice; legacy / reception of the Classics; Cervantes; Golden Age theatre

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