Renaissance and modern intellectual history
Elected 1981
The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal
Studies in Rhetoric and Politics
Volume 1: Regarding Method
Volume 2: Renaissance Virtues
Volume 3: Hobbes and Civil Science
Volume 1: The Renaissance
Volume 2: The Age of Reformation
Politics and religion in early modern Britain, Ireland and Europe; the Church of England 1560-1700; anonymity; Asian and European representations of East/West politico-cultural divisions in the 19th and 20th centuries
China’s social, cultural, and international history from the 13th to the 17th century; global history of the 16th and 17th centuries; Asian conflict and human rights in the 20th century
Intellectual history of late 17th century Britain, especially the early Royal Society and the 'decline of magic'; editions of Robert Boyle and others; visual culture.