The Problem of an Intellectual History for Shakespeare's Age
Directed by Leeds Barroll
Summer 1989
Faculty
Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University
John Guy, University of Bristol
Margaret Jacob, New School for Social Research
Gordon J. Schochet, Rutgers University
Hayden White, University of California at Santa Cruz
The institute was a group revaluation of development, stasis, and change in the relation of intellectual theory to practice in England from 1480 to 1642, as participants identified Renaissance philosophical, political, economic, and scientific theories and inferred ideology from English practice in commerce, politics, and literature.