Professor Quentin Skinner FBA

Smiling portrait of Professor Quentin Skinner FBA
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1981
Subjects
History

Summary

Renaissance and modern intellectual history.

Current post

Queen Mary University of London Emeritus Professor of Humanities

Past appointments

Queen Mary University of London Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities

2008 - 2022

University of Cambridge Regius Professor of Modern History

1996 - 2008

University of Cambridge Professor of Political Science

1979 - 1996

Princeton Member of the Institute for Advanced Study

1976 - 1979

University of Cambridge Assistant Lecturer and Lecturer in History

1965 - 1975

Publications

Liberty as Independence

Quentin Skinner - Published in Forthcoming 2025 by Cambridge University Press

The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal

From Humanism to Hobbes

Quentin Skinner - Published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press

Studies in Rhetoric and Politics

Forensic Shakespeare

Quentin Skinner - Published in 2014 by Oxford University Press

Hobbes and Republican Liberty

Quentin Skinner - Published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press

Visions of Politics

Quentin Skinner - Published in 2002 by Cambridge University Press

Volume 1: Regarding Method

Visions of Politics

Quentin Skinner - Published in 2002 by Cambridge University Press

Volume 2: Renaissance Virtues

Visions of Politics

Quentin Skinner - Published in 2002 by Cambridge University Press

Volume 3: Hobbes and Civil Science

Liberty Before Liberalism

Quentin Skinner - Published in 1998 by Cambridge University Press

Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes

Quentin Skinner - Published in 1996 by Cambridge University Press

Machiavelli

Quentin Skinner - Published in 1981 by Oxford University Press

The Foundations of Modern Political Thought

Quentin Skinner - Published in 1978 by Cambridge University Press

Volume 1: The Renaissance

The Foundations of Modern Political Thought

Quentin Skinner - Published in 1978 by Cambridge University Press

Volume 2: The Age of Reformation

Related Fellows

Professor Ulinka Rublack FBA

Cultural, social and religious history of the early modern world, comparative work on Protestantism and on material culture, with a focus on Germany

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Professor Lyndal Roper FBA

The social & cultural history of sixteenth & seventeenth century Germany; gender history; witchcraft; the German Reformation

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Professor William Doyle FBA

History of eighteenth century Europe, particularly France

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