Peter Burke (historian)

Peter Burke ( born 1937 in Stanmore, England ) is a British historian.

Life

Peter Burke was born as the son of an Irish Catholic father and a Jewish mother of Polish and Lithuanian descent and attended until the age of 17, a Jesuit school in North London. He then studied at St John 's College, Oxford. He taught at the School of European Studies at the University of Sussex. Since 1978 he has been Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge. His research focus is the Renaissance in general and their social history in particular. Another focus his work on historiography, particularly for Annales school. In his probably most famous essay with the programmatic title Did Europe Exist Before 1700? Burke advocated the thesis that European awareness have emerged only in the 18th century. Peter Burke in 2003 had held the Heidelberger Gadamer professorship. Burke is married to the Brazilian historian Maria Lúcia Garcia Pallares -Burke.

Awards (selection)

Writings (selection )

  • Sociology and History. Allen and Unwin, London 1980, German sociology and history. Junius, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-88506-410-3
  • Montaigne. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1981 dt Montaigne imposing. Junius, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-88506-392-1
  • Vico. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984 dt Vico: philosopher, historian, thinker of a new science, Wagenbach, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-8031-2399-2.
  • The historical anthropology of early modern Italy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987, German Urban Culture in Italy between the High Renaissance and Baroque: a historical anthropology. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-596-10331-2
  • The Renaissance. Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1987, The German Renaissance. Wagenbach, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-8031-1120- X
  • The Italian Renaissance. Culture and society in Renaissance Italy. Polity Press, Cambridge 1987, dt The Renaissance in Italy. Social history of a culture of tradition and invention. Wagenbach, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-8031-3565-6
  • The French historical revolution: the Annales school, 1929-89, Cambridge [ua ]: Polity Press, 1990, dt The history of the Annales: the emergence of the new historiography. Wagenbach, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8031-2503-0
  • History and Social Theory (1991 )
  • (Ed.), Language, self, and society: a social history of language, Cambridge [ua ]: Polity Press, 1991
  • The pig of the chief: six essays on the historical anthropology. Wagenbach, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-8031-2212-0
  • The fabrication of Louis XIV, New Haven; Yale Univ. Press, 1992, dt Louis XIV The staging of the Sun King. Wagenbach, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8031-2412-3
  • Venice and Amsterdam. A study of seventeenth -century elites, Polity Press, Cambridge 1994, dt Venice and Amsterdam, Steidl, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-88243-264-0
  • The fortunes of the courtier. , Polity Press, Cambridge 1995, dt The fate of the ' Hofmann '. To the effect of a Renaissance breviary about appropriate behavior, Wagenbach, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-8031-3587-7
  • Varieties of cultural history. Polity Press, Cambridge 1997, dt elegance and attitude. Wagenbach, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-8031-3597-4
  • European Renaissance. Blackwell, Oxford, 1998 dt The European Renaissance. C. H. Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-52796-5
  • New perspectives on historical writing (2001)
  • (Ed.), History and historians in the twentieth century, Oxford [ua ]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002
  • A social history of knowledge: from Gutenberg to Diderot. Polity Press, Cambridge 2000, German market paper and shouting. The birth of the knowledge society. Wagenbach, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8031-3607-5
  • Eyewitnessing. , Reaktion Books, London 2001, German eyewitness. Images as historical sources. , Wagenbach, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8031-3610-5
  • What is Cultural History? Polity Press, Cambridge 2004, dt What is cultural history? Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-58442-1
  • Languages ​​and Communities in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004, German words make the man. Wagenbach, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-8031-3621-3
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