Janet Coleman
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Janet Coleman FRHS is a British academic and historian of political theory.
She is currently the Professor of Ancient & Medieval Political Thought at the London School of Economics.
Coleman studied at L'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris and received her Ph.D. from Yale University. She has held teaching appointments in politics at Exeter University and on the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge.
In 1980 she co-founded (with Iain Hampsher-Monk) the international journal History of Political Thought, which she continues to co-edit. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Coleman has taught at LSE since 1999, where from 2001 to 2004 she held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. She enjoys the devotion of some of her students as a result of her dynamic lecture style and contrarian readings of political texts, as well as her unabashed admiration for ancient and medieval political thought.
Coleman resides in Cambridge.
[edit] Select bibliography
- English Literature in History 1350-1400: Medieval Readers and Writers, 1981
- Against the State: Studies in Sedition and Rebellion, 1990
- Ancient and Medieval Memories: Studies in the Reconstruction of the Past, 1992
- The Individual in Political Theory and Practice, 1996
- Scholastics, Enlightenments and Philosophic Radicals: Essays in Honour of J. H. Burns (ed.), 1999
- A History of Political Thought, from Ancient Greece to Early Christianity, 2000
- A History of Political Thought, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, 2000
