Peter Burke
Author · 26 books
Peter Burke is a British historian and professor. He was educated by the Jesuits and at St John's College, Oxford, and was a doctoral candidate at St Antony's College. From 1962 to 1979, he was part of the School of European Studies at Sussex University, before moving to the University of Cambridge, where he holds the title of Professor Emeritus of Cultural History and Fellow of Emmanuel College. Burke is celebrated as a historian not only of the early modern era, but one who emphasizes the relevance of social and cultural history to modern issues. He is married to Brazilian historian Maria Lúcia Garcia Pallares-Burke.
Series
Books
Montaigne
1994
The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy
1987
A Social History of Knowledge II
From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia
2012
Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe
2004
Cultural Hybridity
2002
The Polymath
A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
2020
The Art of Conversation
1993
Sociología e historia
1980
Ignorance
A Global History
2023
The French Historical Revolution
The Annales School 1929 - 2014
1990
What is the History of Knowledge?
2015
Eyewitnessing
The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence
2001
New Perspectives on Historical Writing
1991
What is Cultural History?
2004
The Renaissance
1987
Varieties of Cultural History
1997
Vico
1985
Cultural Translation in Early Modern Europe
2007
The Fortunes of the Courtier
1995
Social History of Knowledge
From Gutenberg to Diderot
2000
History and Social Theory
1656
The Fabrication Of Louis XIV
1992
The European Renaissance
Centres and Peripheries
1998
Venice and Amsterdam
A Study of Seventeenth-century Elites
1974
Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
1978
The Italian Renaissance
Culture and Society in Italy
1972
