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Lisa Jardine

Overview

Lisa Jardine (born Lisa Anne Bronowski, April 12 1944) is a British historian of the early modern period. She is professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London.

Jardine was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and Newnham College, Cambridge. For two years she took the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos before, in her final year and under the influence of Raymond Williams, she read English.

She has authored many 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.

Family

Lisa Jardine is the eldest child of the late Jacob Bronowski and the sculptor Rita Coblenz, and is married to the architect John Hare.

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

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Lisa Jardine is the eldest child of the late Jacob Bronowski and the sculptor Rita Coblenz, and is married to the architect John Hare.

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...Jacob Bronowski married Rita Coblentz in 1941. The couple had four children, all daughters, the eldest being the British academic Lisa Jardine and another being the filmaker Judith Bronowski....

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...Professor Lisa Jardine, who was at Newnham at the same time, recalled the first time she met Greer, at a formal dinner in college:...

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In 2003, the historian Lisa Jardine claimed a recently discovered portrait represented Robert Hooke. However, Jardine's hypothesis was disproved by William Jensen of the University of Cincinnati and by the German researcher Andreas Pechtl of Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz...

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...For two years she took the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos before, in her final year and under the influence of Raymond Williams, she read English....

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...His work there included interviews with such prominent thinkers as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, Frans de Waal,V.S. Ramachandran, Freeman Dyson, Paul Davies, Lisa Jardine, A.N. Wilson, and John Polkinghorne....