• University of London. Quentin Skinner was born on 26 November 1940, the second son of Alexander Skinner (died 1979) and Winifred Skinner, née Duthie (died...
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  • articles by and interviews with the British intellectual historian, Quentin Skinner. Regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history...
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  • the school held or continue to hold academic positions, including Quentin Skinner, J. G. A. Pocock, Peter Laslett, John Dunn, James Tully, David Runciman...
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  • These ideas were embraced by a number of different writers, including Quentin Skinner, Philip Pettit and Cass Sunstein. These subsequent writers have further...
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  • football Quentin Roosevelt (1897–1918), son of US President Theodore Roosevelt Quentin Skinner (born 1940), English professor and historian Quentin Smith...
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    "brilliant but vigorously intolerant" post-Keynesian, Joan Robinson. Quentin Skinner notes that Sen was a member of the secret society Cambridge Apostles...
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  • Political Thought is a two-volume work of intellectual history by Quentin Skinner, published in 1978. The work traces the conceptual origins of modern...
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    " According to republican theorists of freedom, like the historian Quentin Skinner or the philosopher Philip Pettit, one's liberty should not be viewed...
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    Skinner, Quentin. Machiavelli, in Past Masters series. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1981. pp. vii, 102. ISBN 0192875167 pbk. Skinner, Quentin...
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  • exponents of this dual concept are Hannah Arendt, J. G. A. Pocock, Quentin Skinner, and Philip Pettit. Thomas Pangle (a student of Leo Strauss) has critiqued...
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    influential interpretation of Utopia is that of the intellectual historian Quentin Skinner. He has argued that More was taking part in the Renaissance humanist...
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  • France, Britain and US covering topics since the 1790s Bock, Gisela; Skinner, Quentin; and Viroli, Maurizio, ed. Machiavelli and Republicanism. Cambridge...
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    Butterfield (1963), Geoffrey Elton (1983), Patrick Collinson (1988) and Quentin Skinner (1998). Evans is the first historian to have to apply for the post...
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  • Schmitt, Charles B. (1990). "Biobibliographies". In Charles B. Schmitt; Quentin Skinner (eds.). The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. Cambridge...
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    caused the topic to become much more mainstream.[citation needed] Quentin Skinner has argued that several critical modern innovations in contract theory...
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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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  • Raphael Samuel Stephen Sedley Tom Shippey Elaine Showalter Iain Sinclair Quentin Skinner Susan Sontag Amia Srinivasan Galen Strawson Ernest Sackville Turner...
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    154. Milton and Republicanism, ed. David Armitage, Armand Himy, and Quentin Skinner (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995). James Tully, An Approach to...
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    Intangible Constituents. Routledge. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-317-17950-4. Quentin Skinner, Visions of Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 49 online...
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    Republicanism: The Jewish Commonwealth, in Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner, Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage, Cambridge University Press...
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    Sciences, and the Arts, 1540–1773 (1999), p. 91. Charles B. Schmitt, Quentin Skinner (editors), The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy (1990),...
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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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    (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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  • 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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    More Quotes on Epideixis Archived 2012-03-22 at the Wayback Machine Quentin Skinner (1996). Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes. Cambridge...
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    Mack Smith / Simon Schama (1977) Alistair Horne (1978) Richard Cobb / Quentin Skinner / Mary Soames (1979) 1980s R. J. W. Evans / F. S. L. Lyons (1980) J...
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    Political Modernity (Simon & Schuster, Harvester: 1993). (ed. with Quentin Skinner), History in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Cambridge University...
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    dogmatic, and this inflicted damage on both of their reputations. Quentin Skinner writes: "There is no doubt that at the personal level Wallis behaved...
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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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