PIMSPontifical Institute
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Mediaeval Studies

This talk will explore some key moments in the reception of Plutarch in Renaissance France and England, with some attention to the differing patterns of reception in the vernacular as mediated in part by Desiderius Erasmus.

Rebecca Kingston is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She is author of Montesquieu and the Parlement of Bordeaux (Droz, 1996) and Public Passion: Rethinking the Grounds for Political Justice (McGill-Queens UP, 2011) as well as of many articles and chapter contributions. She is currently working on a history of Plutarch reception in the vernacular in France and England 1500-1800 and its significance for the history of political thought.