Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Carole Levin
Lectures in Intellectual History
Release Date: 09/07/2022
Lectures in Intellectual History
This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 18 September 2024.
info_outline Tom Pye (UCL) - "The tailzie and the politics of the feudal law in eighteenth-century Britain"Lectures in Intellectual History
This lecture was delivered on 3 April 2024 at the University of St Andrews.
info_outline Norman Vance - "Individualism and its Discontents: Hobbes to Hayek and Beyond"Lectures in Intellectual History
This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 13 March 2024.
info_outline Christopher de Bellaigue - "Suleyman the Magnificent and the 16th-century race for empire"Lectures in Intellectual History
This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 31 January 2024.
info_outline Ariane Fichtl - “Overcoming the biopolitical dynamic of enslavement to achieve Immediate Emancipation”Lectures in Intellectual History
This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 24 January 2024.
info_outline Tim Stuart-Buttle - "Behind the Curtain: Hobbes and the politics of recognition"Lectures in Intellectual History
This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 17 January 2024.
info_outline Richard Whatmore - "The End of Enlightenment (book launch)"Lectures in Intellectual History
This talk was given at Toppings in St Andrews on December 7, 2023.
info_outline Jesse Norman - "Ambition, revenge, truth, fiction - The Winding Stair"Lectures in Intellectual History
The barely known story of the 30-year rivalry between Francis Bacon and Edward Coke is a fascinating case study in late-Elizabethan-Jacobean court politics. But it can also be a means by which to explore the limits of historical truth, and the uses of fiction. Jesse Norman is a Visiting Research Fellow at St Andrews, a Fellow of All Souls and a Member of Parliament (UK). This lecture was given on the 17th of November 2023 at the University of St Andrews.
info_outline Vassilios Paipais - "Between Pacifism and Just War: Oikonomia and Eastern Orthodox Political Theology"Lectures in Intellectual History
This lecture was given at the University of St Andrews on 15 November 2023.
info_outline Adam Sisman - "The Perils of Biography"Lectures in Intellectual History
Adam Sisman in conversation with Richard Whatmore. Recorded on 8 November 2023.
info_outlineDuring the final weeks of the summer, the Institute of Intellectual History brings a series of new interviews with leading intellectual historians about their career and work in intellectual history.
In this fourth interview, we present a conversation with Carole Levin.
Carole Levin is Willa Cather Emerita Professor of History at the University of Nebraska. She specialises in early modern English women's and cultural history. Her books include Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age, co-authored with John Watkins (Cornell, 2009); Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); The Reign of Elizabeth I (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002); and The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994). She is the former president of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, the co-founder and president of the Queen Elizabeth I Society, and is Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.