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Professor James Hankins FBA

Intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance, specialising in political thought and the reception of ancient philosophy; history of humanism and the Latin literature of the Renaissance
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2014
Subjects
History, Literature
Sections
Early Modern Languages and Literatures to 1830
Website
https://scholar.harvard.edu/jameshankins/home

Current post

Professor of History, Harvard University

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