![]() ‘The Rise of Literal-Mindedness', Common Knowledge 2 (1993), 108-21 My Cultural History of Polymaths is in the press and my current project (2020) is a social history of ignorance. For most of my career I worked on the cultural and social history of early modern Europe, but now extend my investigations more widely to include Brazil and the 20th century. ![]() My work has been translated into 33 languages. I have published hundreds of articles and chapters and 30 books, from Culture and Society in Renaissance Italy (1972) to A Social History of Knowledge (2 vols., 2000-2012) and Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge (2017). D (honoris causa), Universities of Lund, Copenhagen, Bucharest, Zurich, Brussels and Oviedo, Honorary Professor of the National University of Colombia, Honorary Fellow of St John’s College Oxford. I am a Fellow of the British Academy and Member of the Academia Europea Ph. I have been a visiting teacher or researcher in Berlin, Brussels, Canberra Groningen, Heidelberg, Los Angeles, Nijmegen, Paris (the EHESS), Princeton (IAS and Department of History) and São Paulo. I am married to the Brazilian historian Maria Lúcia García Pallares-Burke. I retired from the Chair in 2004 but remain a Life Fellow of Emmanuel College. I moved to Cambridge in 1979, where I became Professor of Cultural History. ![]() I was one of the first junior lecturers to be appointed at the University of Sussex, attracted by the interdisciplinary programme, and remained there for 17 years (1962-79). I was educated at St Ignatius’s College, Stamford Hill, London, and St John’s College Oxford.
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