Professor Skinner is an eminent British scholar, professor emeritus of history at Cambridge University, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary, University College London. His research centres on early-modern Europe

Time: 19 May, 12.00-13.40

Place: Aula Collegium Novum, ul. Gołębia 24

Professor Skinner is an eminent British scholar, professor emeritus of history at Cambridge University, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary, University College London. His research centres on early-modern Europe, and one of his principal interests lies in the Italian Renaissance. He has published books on Machiavelli, on early Renaissance political painting, on the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, on ideals of civic virtue, and his best-known work, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, attempts to span the whole early-modern period. Professor Skinner has also written extensively on the relations between rhetoric and philosophy, and has just completed a book on Shakespeare and forensic eloquence. His philosophical interests include speech-act theory; the nature of interpretation and historical explanation.

Professor Skinner is known as the founder, along with J.G.A. Pocock, of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought that centered its attention to the 'languages' of political thought and the contextual focus.