Books written by Lisa Jardine
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Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon
Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart draw upon previously untapped sources to create a controversial nuanced portrait of the quintessential Renaissance man, one whose achievements, while enormous, were nonetheless sadly circumscribed by his class ...
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Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print
for the whole tradition of Jerome-style scholar-portraits, has itself been identified as a portrait of the fifteenth-century cardinal Nicholas Albergati.93 Antonella da Messina's remarkable Jerome in His Study, in the National Gallery, ...
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Reading Shakespeare Historically
What I here call the 'historically precise' disruptiveness of Helena's action appears to map on to (or mirror) the account Wheeler gives in terms of incest and 'the threat of paternal sexuality'. The King is 'restored to vigorous ...
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Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse
A New York socialite who wasn't interested in fortune or fame?
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From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Europe
From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Europe
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The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London
The brilliant, largely forgotten maverick Robert Hooke was an engineer, surveyor, architect, and inventor who worked tirelessly with his intimate friend Christopher Wren to rebuild London after the Great Fire of 1666.He was the first ...
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
The author of the critically acclaimed Worldly Goods presents a thoughtful reassessment of the Renaissance in terms of its influence on the history of science, relating the era's imaginative, artistic endeavors to the creative inspiration ...
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Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory
The remarkable story of the relationship between two of Europe's most important colonial powers at the dawn of the modern age, Lisa Jardine's Going Dutch demonstrates through compelling new research in political and social history how Dutch ...
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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Volume 29 features lectures by Lisa Jardine, Michael Tomasello, Sari Nusseibeh, Marc Hauser, and Jeremy Waldron.
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Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance
Explores significant business dealings between artists and patrons in a historical tour through the Renaissance that posits that the period's fabulous advances in culture were tied to the creation of wealth
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Temptation in the Archives: Essays in Golden Age Dutch Culture
Temptation in the Archives is a collection of essays by Lisa Jardine, that takes readers on a journey through the Dutch Golden Age.
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Grayson Perry
Every inch of Grayson's childhood bedroom was covered with pictures of aeroplanes, and every surface with models. In 2003, an acclaimed ceramic artist, he accepted the Turner Prize as his...
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On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren
The man behind the work was as remarkable as the monuments he has left us.
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Temptation in the Archives: Essays in Golden Age Dutch Culture
Never. Trust. a. Pirate: Christiaan. Huygens's. Longitude. Clocks. On 13/23 January 16651 Sir robert Moray, courtier and confidant to King Charles II, and sometime President of the royal Society in London, wrote to the talented young ...
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Global Interests: Renaissance Art Between East and West
Global Interests offers a timely reconsideration of the development of European imperialism, focusing on the Habsburg Empire of Charles V. Lisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton analyze the impact this history continues to have on contemporary ...
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Reading Shakespeare Historically
Lisa Jardine re-reads Renaissance drama in its historical and cultural context, from laws of defamation in Othello to the competing loyalties of companionate marriage and male friendship in The Changeling.
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Global Interests: Renaissance Art Between East and West
In this re-assessment of Renaissance art, Lisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton examine the ways in which European civilization defined itself between 1450 and 1550.
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Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance
Provocative and wholly absorbing, this fascinating work presents a radical interpretation of the Renaissance, arguing that the creation of culture during the time was inextricably tied to the creation of wealth.
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What's Left?: Women in Culture and the Labour Movement
... out to give an account of what has been left out of Left thought – what has allowed the Left to substitute nostalgia for programme and action, and to continue to address a constituency exclusively made up of labouring men, in spite of ...