Matthew Kempshall | |
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Born | 1964 (age 59–60) |
Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | Historian and academic |
Academic background | |
Thesis | Bonum commune and communis utilitas: the notion of the common good and its relation to the individual in late thirteenth century scholastic political and ecclesiastical thought (1991) |
Doctoral advisor | Jean Dunbabin |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | |
Institutions | Wadham College, Oxford |
Matthew S. Kempshall (born 1964) [1] is a British historian who specialises in the history of medieval intellectual thought. He is Lecturer and Tutor of Medieval History at Oxford University, as well as a tutor and Keeper of the Gardens at Wadham College. [2]
His main interests are in the 'reception of Aristotle's ethical and political ideas, on the connections between Ciceronian rhetoric and medieval historiography, on the ideology of medieval kingship, and on the understanding of classical republicanism by scholastic theologians and early renaissance humanists'. Most recently he has published Rhetoric and the Writing of History (Manchester 2011). [3] According to WorldCat, the book is held in 196 libraries [4]
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