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Ian Maclean, M.A., D.Phil.

Professor of Renaissance Studies, Fellow of All Souls

 

Research

Professor Maclean's main research interests are in the fields of Montaigne; Cardano; history of the book in the late Renaissance; history of law, medicine and theology in European universities; and Aristotelianism.

Publications

Learning and the market place: essays in the history of the early modern book (Brill, 2009)



Translator, Descartes, A discourse on the method, Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press, 2006)



Editor, with Sachiko Kusukawa, Transmitting knowledge: words, images and instruments in early modern Europe, Oxford Warburg Series (Oxford University Press, 2006)



Editor, with John Brooke, Heterodoxy in early modern science and religion (Oxford University Press, 2005)



Cardano: de libris propriis (FrancoAngeli, 2004)



With Eckhard Kessler , Res et verba in the Renaissance (Harrassowitz, 2002)



Logic signs and nature in the Renaissance: the case of learned medicine , Ideas in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2001)



Montaigne philosophe , Philosophies (PUF, 1996)



The Renaissance notion of woman , 5th (Cambridge University Press, 1995)



Meaning and interpretation in the Renaissance: the case of law , Ideas in Context (Cambridge University Press, 1992)