Faculty Postholders
Dr Matthew Kempshall
M.A., D.Phil.
Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History
Email: matthew.kempshall@wadh.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Matthew Kempshall works on the transmission and transformation of aspects of the classical tradition within medieval and early renaissance Europe. He has published on the reception of Aristotle's ethical and political ideas, on the connections between Ciceronian rhetoric and medieval historiography, on the ideology of medieval kingship, and on the understanding of classical republicanism by scholastic theologians and early renaissance humanists.
Selected Publications:
- 'Some Ciceronian models for Einhard's 'Life' of Charlemagne', Viator. Vol 26 (1995)
- The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought. (Oxford, 1999)
- (ed.) The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts II: Ethics and Political Philosophy . (Cambridge, 2000)
- 'Ecclesiology and Politics' in The Medieval Theologians. (Blackwell, 2000)
- 'No Bishop, No King: The Ministerial Ideology of Kingship and Asser's Res Gestae Aelfredi' in Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages. Studies Presented to Henry Mayr-Harting . (Oxford, 2001) pp. 106-128
- 'De Re Publica I.39 in Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought' in Cicero's Republic. (London, 2001) pp. 99-135
- 'Accidental Perfection: Ecclesiology and Political Thought in Monarchia' in Dante and the Church. Literary and Historical Essays. (Dublin, 2007) pp. 127-171
- 'The Rhetoric of Giles of Rome's De Regimine Principum ' in Le Prince au Miroir de la Littérature Politique de l'antiquite aux Lumieres. (Paris, 2007) pp. 161-190
Future Publications:
- 'The Virtues of Rhetoric - Alcuin's Disputatio de Rhetorica et de Virtutibus', Anglo Saxon England. Vol 37 (2009) pp. 7-30
- Rhetoric and the Writing of History 400-1500. (Manchester, 2010)
- 'Space and Time' in The Short Oxford History of Europe - The Later Middle Ages. (Oxford, 2010)
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