James Hankins – The Roman Republic in the Italian Renaissance

Lecture/Conversation

James Hankins – The Roman Republic in the Italian Renaissance

James Hankins - The Roman Republic in the Italian Renaissance

The Renaissance’s understanding of the Roman republic differed considerably from that of modern times, both as a political concept and as a historical period. James Hankins’s lecture shows how this contested historical concept evolved from the late fourteenth to the middle of the sixteenth century. The evolution of the concept is collated with the parallel story of the recovery of ancient sources, both Greek and Latin, for the history of Rome.

Hankins (1982 Fellow) is professor of history at Harvard University and an American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence.

Date & time
Thursday, May 15, 2014
6:30 PM
Location
AAR Lecture Room
McKim, Mead & White Building
Via Angelo Masina, 5
Rome, Italy