Matthew Kempshall

Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, and Keeper of the Gardens

Biography

Matthew Kempshall works on the transmission and transformation of aspects of the classical tradition within medieval and early Renaissance Europe. His research concerns the reception of Aristotle's ethical and political ideas, the connections between Ciceronian rhetoric and medieval historiography, the ideology of medieval kingship, and the understanding of classical republicanism by scholastic theologians and early Renaissance humanists. His teaching covers, in history, the period from 350 to 1500 and, in political thought, writers from Plato and Aristotle through to Rousseau and Marx.