People who believe in nothing: Intolerable thoughts in Late Renaissance Italy

Posted on 30 January 2012

Professor Edward Muir (Northwestern University) will deliver the annual Aylmer Lecture, hosted by the Department History, on the topic of atheism in late Renaissance Italy.

Edward Muir is the Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences and holds a Charles Deering McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence. He is currently the vice-president and president elect of the Renaissance Society of America.Professor Muir works on Italian social and cultural history. He is the author of Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice, which won the Adams and Marraro Prizes; Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta in Renaissance Italy, which also won the Marraro Prize; Ritual in Early Modern Europe; and The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera. He is the coauthor of the textbook, The West: Encounters and Transformations, and is currently writing The Fragile Sinews of Trust: The Italian Renaissance, 1350-1650.

Contact Sabine Clarke (sabine.clarke@york.ac.uk)

Location: Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building