Peter Burke (historian)

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Peter Burke
Professor Peter Burke in 2009
Born
Ulick Peter Burke

(1937-08-16) 16 August 1937 (age 86)
Stanmore, England
Education
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
SpouseMaria Lúcia Garcia Pallares-Burke
Scientific career
FieldsHistory

Ulick Peter Burke (born August 16, 1937) is a British

Roman Catholic father and Jewish
mother (who later converted to Roman Catholicism).

He was educated by the

Jesuits and at St John's College, Oxford and was a doctoral candidate at St Antony's College, Oxford.[2]

From 1962 to 1979, he was a member of the School of European Studies at University of Sussex, before moving to the University of Cambridge, where he holds the title of Professor Emeritus of Cultural History and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Burke is celebrated as a historian not only of the early modern era, but one who emphasizes the relevance of social and cultural history to modern issues. He is married to the Brazilian historian Maria Lúcia Garcia Pallares-Burke who is the author of two books (in one of which she collaborated with her husband).


Burke is not only known for his work on the Modern Age but also for his research on cultural history across its entire spectrum. As a polyglot, he has managed on the one hand to incorporate information from a good part of Europe and has also achieved good diffusion of his books. They have been translated into more than thirty languages. In 1998, he was awarded the Erasmus Medal of the European Academy,[3] and is an honorary doctorate from the Universities of Lund, Copenhagen and Bucharest.

Works

Among his most important works are:

  • The Italian Renaissance (1972)
  • Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (1978)
  • Sociology and History (1980)
  • The Renaissance (1987)
  • The French Historical Revolution: The
    Annales School
    1929–89     (1990)
  • History and Social Theory (1991)
  • New Perspectives on Historical Writing (1991) (editor and contributor)
  • The Fabrication of Louis XIV (1992)
  • The Art of Conversation (1993)
  • The Fortunes of the Courtier: The European Reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano (1995)
  • Varieties of Cultural history (1997)
  • The European Renaissance: Centres and Peripheries (1998)
  • A Social History of Knowledge (2000)
  • Eyewitnessing (2000)
  • A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet (2002) (with
    Asa Briggs
    )
  • What is Cultural History? (2004)
  • Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe (2004)
  • Gilberto Freyre: Social Theory in the Tropics (2008) (with Maria Lúcia Garcia Pallares-Burke)
  • Cultural Hybridity (2009)
  • A Social History of Knowledge Volume II: From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia (2012)
  • What is the History of Knowledge? (2015)
  • The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag (2020)
  • Ignorance: A Global History (Yale University Press 2023)

References

  1. The Institute of Historical Research
    . Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Professor Peter Burke | Fellows | Contact | Emmanuel College, Cambridge". www.emma.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Academy of Europe: Erasmus Medal Erasmus Medal". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 14 May 2020.

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