Peter Burke

Peter Burke considers the various works dealing with the Renaissance

To historians he seemed to be a philosopher, to philosophers an historian. But in spite of the difficulty of categorising the late Michel Foucault (1926-84), or perhaps because of that very difficulty, he has had a considerable impact on historical writing and deserves to have more.

In Reading History, Peter Burke examines various reassessments of the Italian Renaissance.

Peter Burke on the historian Frances Yates's career.