Eugene F. Rice Jr.

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Early Modern Europe, and Western homosexualities
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Rice was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and raised in Puerto Rico, where his father was president of The Central Aguirre Sugar Company.[2]

He was educated at Eaglebrook School (1937–39) and Phillips Exeter Academy. He entered Harvard University in 1942, but was soon drafted. In the European theatre of operations, he served as sergeant (T3) in the Intelligence Section of a Signal Corps cryptanalysis company.[2] Before getting his doctorate at Harvard in 1953 he studied two years at the École normale supérieure. It was in Paris that he met and married Charlotte Bloch from Prague, who had survived the Holocaust in London. Eugene Rice held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1959 and along with his wife and three children, spent the academic year in Paris. From 1962 to 1963 Rice was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Rice was on the faculty of Cornell University from 1955 until 1964. He relocated to New York City to become a long-time member of the faculty of

the Renaissance Society of America (1966–82, 1985–87).[7]

As an older scholar, his research interests continued to evolve. Rice was invited to present his new research on Western homosexuality as a distinguished visiting scholar at Toronto's

Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies in 1992. Upon retirement in 1995, Rice became Shepherd Professor of History Emeritus and a member of the Society of Senior Scholars where, in later years, he continued to teach in the core curriculum. He founded and chaired the Columbia University Seminar on Homosexualities, which ran in the early 1990s. Rice was a member of the American Philosophical Society[1] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
.

Selected publications

  • The Renaissance Idea of Wisdom. 1958
  • Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460–1559. 1970
  • The Prefatory Epistles of
    Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples
    and Related Texts    . 1972
  • Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 1982
  • Saint Jerome in the Renaissance. 1985

References

  1. ^ a b "Eugene F. Rice, Jr". American Philosophical Society web site. Retrieved 2008-08-06.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ a b John Hine Mundy: "Eugene F. Rice, Jr.: An Appreciation" in John Monfasani & Ronald G. Musto (eds.) Renaissance Society & Culture. Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr.. Italica Press
  3. ^ New York Times September 26, 1984
  4. ^ "ASCH Schaff Prize". Archived from the original on 2012-05-07. Retrieved 2013-01-22.
  5. ^ "American Catholic Historical Association". Archived from the original on 2008-06-22. Retrieved 2008-09-05.
  6. ^ "Saint Jerome in the Renaissance | Johns Hopkins University Press Books".
  7. ^ http://www.rsa.org/RNN/RNN%20Fall%202008.pdf [bare URL PDF]

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