Margaret L. King      

Margaret King studies and teaches in the fields of the Italian Renaissance, the classical tradition; the social and cultural history of early modern Europe; women and learning 1300-1800; and the history of childhood from antiquity to the present. 

Publications:

• Her Immaculate Hand: Selected Works By and About the Women Humanists of Quattrocento Italy, ed. and trans., with Albert Rabil, Jr. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 20; Binghamton, NY; 2nd ed., 1992)

• Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance (Princeton University Press, 1986);

• Women of the Renaissance (University of Chicago Press, 1991); 

• The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello (University of Chicago Press, 1994);

• Complete Writings of Isotta Nogarola (ed. and trans. with Diana Robin; University of Chicago Press, 2004);

• The Renaissance in Europe (Laurence King Ltd./McGraw Hill, 2004)

• Western Civilization: A Social and Cultural History (3rd ed., Prentice Hall, 2005)

• Humanism, Venice, and Women: Essays on the Italian Renaissance (Variorum Collected Studies Series; Hampshire UK: Ashgate, 2005);

• Teaching Other Voices: Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe, ed. Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil, Jr. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007)

• and more than 60 articles, chapters, reviews,, review essays, and short articles

King is editor-in-chief of the Renaissance/Reformation Online Bibliography (OBO) launched by Oxford University Press in May, 2010, and the author of four entries: on "Family and Childhood"; "Women and Learning"; "Venice"; and the "Renaissance."

With Albert Rabil, Jr., she is the co-editor of the series The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe (University of Chicago Press), of which more than 60 titles have been issued, heading towards a total of 65, after which the series continues as "the Toronto series," published by the University of Toronto's Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies and the UT Library's Iter, in both conventional and electronic formats. 

King's current research is on mothers and sons in history. 

She has received Woodrow Wilson, Danforth, ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies), NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities), American Philosophical Society, and Gladys Krieble Delmas fellowships; the Brooklyn College Tow (2000-2002) and Broeklundian (2006-2010) Professorships; two Marraro prizes (ACHA 1986, AHA 1996) and the Scaglione prize for translation (MLA 2006), among other honors.

Margaret King received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1967 and her PhD from Stanford University in 1972.  She has taught at Brooklyn College since 1972; in the history department since 1980; and at the Graduate Center since 1987.

 

Last update 12/26/2011