John Marenbon

John Alexander Marenbon (born August 26, 1955 in London ) is an English philosopher .

Life

He received his BA, MA, PhD and DLitt from the University of Cambridge . He has been a Fellow of Trinity College since 1978 and a Senior Research Fellow there since 2005. In 2010 he became an honorary professor of medieval philosophy at Cambridge. He also taught at the University of Paris IV , was a visiting scholar at the Center for Medieval Studies and Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto . He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2009.

His interests include the entire breadth of philosophy in the long Middle Ages (approx. 200 - approx. 1700), in the Latin and Greek Christian, Islamic and Jewish traditions.

Fonts (selection)

• Medieval philosophy. An historical and philosophical introduction . London 2007, ISBN 0-203-96876-X .
• The Hellenistic schools and thinking about Pagan philosophy in the Middle Ages. A study of second-order influence . Basel 2012, ISBN 978-3-7965-2837-8 .
• Abelard in four dimensions. A twelfth-century philosopher in his context and ours . Notre Dame 2013, ISBN 0-268-03530-X .
• Pagans and philosophers. The problem of paganism from Augustine to Leibniz . Princeton 2015, ISBN 978-0-691-14255-5 .

Web links

• academia.edu
• Marenbon, John .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• phil.cam.ac.uk