Lisa Jardine
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Lisa Jardine (born 1944) is a British historian of the early modern period. She is professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London.
She has authored several books including The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London, Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution and On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren. She is the eldest child of the late Jacob Bronowski.
She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and the University of Cambridge, where for two years she took the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos before, in her final year and under the influence of Raymond Williams, reading English.
She is the daughter of Rita and Jacob Bronowski.
[edit] Works
- From Humanism to the Humanities (1986) with Anthony Grafton
- Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare (1989)
- What's Left?: Women in Culture and the Labour Movement (1989) with Julia Swindells
- Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print (1993)
- Reading Shakespeare Historically (1996)
- Wordly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance (1996)
- Erasmus: The Education Of A Christian Prince with the Panegyric for Archduke Philip of Austria (1997) editor
- Hostage To Fortune - The Troubled Life Of Francis Bacon (1998) with Alan Stewart
- Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution (1999)
- Francis Bacon: The New Organon (2000) editor with Michael Silverthorne
- On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren (2002)
- For the Sake of Argument (2003)
- The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London (2003)
- London's Leonardo: The Life and Work of Robert Hooke (2003) with Jim Bennett, Michael Cooper and Michael Hunter
- Grayson Perry (2004)
- The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Hand-Gun (2005)
- Global Interests: Renaissance Art Between East And West (2005) with Jerry Brotton
