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Quentin Skinner
FBA
Born
Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner

(1940-11-26) 26 November 1940 (age 83)
Oldham, England
Spouses
  • Patricia Law Skinner (div.)
  • Susan James
    (m. 1979)
Awards
  • Wolfson History Prize (1979)
  • Balzan Prize (2006)
  • Bielefeld Science Award [de] (2008)
Academic background
Alma materGonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Influences
  • R. G. Collingwood
  • Peter Laslett
  • J. G. A. Pocock
  • Bertrand Russell
  • Keith Thomas
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • J. L.  Austin
  • John Dunn
  • Philip Pettit
  • Michel Foucault
Academic work
Discipline
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • political science
School or traditionCambridge School
Institutions
  • Christ's College, Cambridge
  • Institute for Advanced Study
  • Queen Mary University of London
Doctoral students
  • David Armitage
  • Mark Goldie
  • Karen Kupperman
  • Eric M. Nelson
  • James Tully
  • Peter N.  Miller
  • Richard Tuck
  • Richard Bellamy
Main interests
  • Early modern history
  • intellectual history
  • political philosophy
  • history of political thought
  • Reformation
  • Renaissance
  • Enlightenment
  • rhetoric
Notable works
  • The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (1978)
  • Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes (1996)
Notable ideasCambridge School (intellectual history)
Influenced
  • J. G. A. Pocock
  • Peter Laslett
  • John Dunn
  • David Runciman
  • Raymond Geuss
  • David Armitage
  • Mark Goldie
  • Karen Kupperman
  • Eric M. Nelson
  • Philip Pettit
  • James Tully

Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner FBA (born 26 November 1940) is a British intellectual historian. He is regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought. He has won numerous prizes for his work, including the Wolfson History Prize in 1979 and the Balzan Prize in 2006. Between 1996 and 2008 he was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. He is the Emeritus Professor of the Humanities and Co-director of The Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London.[1] [2]

  1. ^ "People | Centre for the History of Political Thought".
  2. ^ "QMUL academic staff profiles, Quentin Skinner".

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especially associated with historians at Cambridge, such as John Dunn and Quentin Skinner, who studied European political thought in historical context, emphasizing...

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the Roman Empire's heartland. Historian and political philosopher Quentin Skinner points out that Otto of Freising (c. 1114–1158), a German bishop visiting...

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Aequitas

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become instruments of power that affect society.: 160  The historian Quentin Skinner developed classical and postmodern theories on performative texts into...

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Humanism

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2022. Kristeller, Paul Oskar (2008). "Humanism". In C. B. Schmitt; Quentin Skinner; Eckhard Kessler; Jill Kraye (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance...

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Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator award holder for her work on 'Renaissance Skin'. On 22 March 2022, the University of Bristol announced Welch's appointment...

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Thomas Hobbes

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(1998). "Skinner's Hobbes". British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 6 (1): 115. doi:10.1080/09608789808570984. p. 118. Skinner, Quentin. [2002]...

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Mary Soames

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