In-Person and on Zoom

James Hankins, Professor of History, Harvard University

Thursday, February 10, 7:00PM EST

South Building, Room S020, Belfer Case Study Room,

1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA and Livestreamed  

Presented by The Harvard Catholic Forum

Often characterized in older scholarship as a secularizing tendency that foreshadowed the Enlightenment, Renaissance humanism was actually a movement that aimed to build a more humane, virtuous, wise, tolerant, and open- minded Christian civilization. This history provides the framework for humanism’s enduring adaptability and its application to contemporary debates about reason, faith, education, and the ethical life.

Dr. James Hankins PhD is Professor of History at Harvard and an internationally recognized authority on Renaissance Humanism. He received his PhD from Columbia, has written widely on the intellectual and cultural history of the Renaissance, and serves as general editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library. Among his numerous authored and edited books, translations, and articles is Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy (Harvard University Press, 2019).

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