Ada Palmer, University of Chicago

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Assistant Professor Chicago, Illinois adapalmer@uchicago.edu Office: (773) 834-8178

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Atomism Deism Early modern Europe Enlightenment reception of earlier radical thought Epicureanism Heterodoxy History of the book Neoplatonism Platonism Postclassical reception of classical philosophy Printing and reading Reformation Renaissance humanism Renaissance Italy Stoicism

Bio/Research

My research on intellectual history, or the history of ideas, is my way of exploring how history and thought shape each other over time. The Italian Renaissance is a perfect moment for approaching this question because at that point the ideas about science, religion, and the world that had develo...

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Bio/Research

My research on intellectual history, or the history of ideas, is my way of exploring how history and thought shape each other over time. The Italian Renaissance is a perfect moment for approaching this question because at that point the ideas about science, religion, and the world that had developed in the Middle Ages suddenly met those of the ancient world, reconstructed from rediscovered sources. All at once many beliefs, scientific systems, and perceived worlds clashed, mixed, and produced an unprecedented range of new ideas, which in turn shaped the following centuries and, thereby, our current world.

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