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Margaret L. King
 

Ph.D. Stanford University
Academic Affiliation: Professor, Brooklyn College
Office phone: 718-951-5303
E-Mail:king@brooklyn.cuny.edu, marglking@gmail.com
Website: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/king/

Field of Scholarship

Italian Renaissance, the classical tradition; the social and cultural history of early modern Europe; women and learning 1300-1800; the history of childhood from antiquity to the present

Selected Books


Monographs
The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello (University of Chicago Press, 1994); winner of the Helen and Howard Marraro Prize for best book in Italian history, American Historical Association, 1996; available as an E-book with the ACLS History E-Book Project: http://www.historyebook.org/

Women of the Renaissance (University of Chicago Press, 1991); published in Italian as Le donne del Rinascimento (Laterza 1989); further translations into Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Dutch (1993-1994); Chinese translation forthcoming (2006 est.)

Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance (Princeton University Press, 1986); winner of the Howard Marraro Prize for best book in Italian history, American Catholic Historical Association, 1986; Italian trans. Umanesimo e patriziato a Venezia nel Quattrocento, 2 vols. (Rome: Il Veltro Editrice, 1989); available as an E-book with the ACLS History E-Book Project: http://www.historyebook.org/

Collected essays, editions, translations
Humanism, Venice, and Women: Essays on the Italian Renaissance (Variorum Collected Studies Series; Hampshire UK: Ashgate, 2005)

Isotta Nogarola, Complete Writings: Letterbook, Dialogue on Adam and Eve, Orations, ed. and trans. (with Diana Robin), for series "The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe" (University of Chicago Press, 2004); winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature, Modern Language Association, 2005

Her Immaculate Hand: Selected Works By and About the Women Humanists of Quattrocento Italy, ed. and trans., with Albert Rabil, Jr. (2nd ed., Pegasus, 1992)

Textbooks
The Renaissance in Europe
(Laurence King, © 2004; McGraw-Hill, ©. 2005); textbook, 384 pp., single-authored

Western Civilization: A Social and Cultural History (Prentice Hall, 2000); textbook, 919 pp., single-authored; 3rd ed., 2004

Articles and review essays:
More than 50 articles, essays, and reviews (see Curriculum vitae, using link below, for complete references)

Series editor:
Series co-editor, with Albert Rabil Jr., 1996-present (ongoing): texts series THE OTHER VOICE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE (University of Chicago Press) consisting of translations from Latin, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Polish, and Russian of works by and about women of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries; 50 titles published 1996-2008; an eventual 75 titles are planned with Chicago, while a second series, the Toronto Other Voice (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto Press), is being launched in 2008, featuring e-book as well as conventional print publication.

Link to Margaret King's Brooklyn College website for:

Curriculum Vitae:
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/king/MLKCV.htm

Courses taught:
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/king/Courses.htm

Bibliographies:
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/king/Bibliographies.htm

 
 
 
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