Dr Matthew Kempshall

Research Interests

• Medieval and Renaissance political and ethical ideas
• The transmission of classical and late antique thought
• Late Antique, Medieval and Renaissance Historiography
• Apocalypticism

My research and publications centre on the transmission and transformation of aspects of the classical tradition within medieval and early renaissance Europe. I am especially interested in the reception of Aristotle's ethical and political ideas, on the connections between Ciceronian rhetoric and medieval historiography, on the ideology of medieval kingship, and on the understanding of classical republicanism by scholastic theologians and early renaissance humanists.  Most recently, I have published Rhetoric and the Writing of History (Manchester 2011).

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