The past three decades have seen a remarkable growth of interest in intellectual history and this book provides the first comprehensive survey of recent research in this field. Each chapter considers developments in intellectual history, and shows the ways intellectual historians have contributed to more established disciplinary enquiries.

Autorentext
MISHTOONI BOSE Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Culture, University of Southampton, UK JOHN W. BURROW Emeritus Professor of European Thought, Oxford University, UK BRIAN COWAN Associate Professor of Early Modern History, Yale University, USA RACHEL FOXLEY Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge, UK LUCY HARTLEY Deputy Director of the Centre for Rhetoric and Cultural Poetics, University of Southampton, UK DUNCAN KELLY, Lecturer in Politics, University of Sheffield, UK JAMES LIVESEY Reader in History, University of Sussex, UK DEBORAH MADDEN Lincoln College, Oxford University, UK RICHARD WHATMORE Senior Lecturer in Intellectual History, University of Sussex, UK ABIGAIL WILLIAMS Lecturer in English, Oxford University, Fellow of St Peter's College, UK BRIAN YOUNG Reader in Intellectual History, University of Sussex, UK

Inhalt
Introduction; B.Young Intellectual History in English Academic Life: Reflections on a Revolution; J.W.Burrow Intellectual History in Britain; B.Young Literary and Intellectual History; A.Williams Intellectual History and the History of Art; L.Hartley Intellectual History and the Middle Ages; M.Bose Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought: R.Whatmore Intellectual History and the History of Science; J.Livesey Medicine, Science and Intellectual History; D.Madden Intellectual, Social and Cultural History: Ideas in Context; B.Cowan Feminism and Intellectual History; R.Foxley The Politics of Intellectual History in Twentieth Century Europe; D.Kelly