James Hankins is Professor of History at Harvard University and editor of Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections (2000, 2004).
'Coming freshly from our consideration of the possibility of a new Renaissance, this volume provides a fascinating compendium of background information from the 14th to 16th centuries when Europe was emerging from mediaeval scholasticism and had not yet fallen under the spell of the mechanistic metaphor of the 17th century.' Network Review