John Henderson (historian)

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John S. Henderson is a professor of Italian Renaissance history at Birkbeck College, University of London. [1]

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Selected publications

Edited volumes

Forthcoming: *Representing Infirmity in Renaissance Italy, ed. Federica Jacobs and Jonathan Nelson (Routledge, London, 2020).

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References

  1. John Henderson. Birkbeck College. Retrieved 14 May 2015.