John Alexander Marenbon, FBA (born 26 August 1955) is a British philosopher and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His principal area of specialization is medieval philosophy.

Career

He obtained his BA, MA,

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, and

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from the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

. Since 1978 he has been a

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, and a senior research fellow there since 2005. In 2010 he became an honorary professor of

medieval philosophy Medieval philosophy is the philosophy that existed through the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century until after the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th centuries. Medieval philosophy, ...

at Cambridge, delivering an inaugural lecture entitled 'When was medieval philosophy?'. He has also taught at Paris-Sorbonne University, been a visiting fellow at both th
Centre for Medieval Studies
and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the

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, and held a visiting appointment at

Peking University Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charte ...

. He was elected a Fellow of the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars s ...

in 2009. Since 2020 Marenbon is visiting professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.

Selected bibliography

Authored books * ''Medieval Philosophy : an historical and philosophical Introduction'', London and New York; Routledge, 2007 * ''The Cambridge Companion to Boethius'' (ed.), Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 2009 * ''The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy'' (editor), New York; Oxford University Press 2012 * ''The Hellenistic Schools and Thinking about Pagan Philosophy in the Middle Ages. A study of second-order influence'' ooklet Basel; Schwabe, 2012 * ''Continuity and Innovation in Medieval and Modern Philosophy. Knowledge, mind, and language'' (editor), Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2013 = Proceedings of the British Academy 189 * ''Abelard in Four Dimensions. A twelfth-century philosopher in his context and ours'', Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013 * ''Pagans and Philosophers. The problem of paganism from Augustine to Leibniz'', Princeton and Woodbridge; Princeton University Press 2015

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External links

Academia page
Living people Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge Paris-Sorbonne University faculty University of Toronto faculty Peking University faculty 20th-century British philosophers 21st-century British philosophers 1955 births Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of the British Academy British medievalists Scholars of medieval philosophy {{UK-philosopher-stub