Prof. Mark Jurdjevic
College Member
Current Employer
York University
Election Year
2015
Academy
College of New Scholars
Keywords
early moder Europe, Renaissance, Florence, Machiavelli, republicanism, political thought
A social historian of ideas, Mark Jurdjevic studies the political and intellectual history of early modern Europe. His books and articles have shown how abstract ideas became powerful agents of social and political change in the Italian Renaissance. Collectively, his scholarship excavates a dramatic and illuminating moment in a much larger debate about the relationship between the humanities, active conceptions of citizenship, and robust democracies.
Un historien social des idées, Mark Jurdjevic étudie l'histoire politique et intellectuelle de l'Europe moderne. Ses livres et ses articles ont démontré comment les idées abstraites sont devenues de puissants agents de changement social et politique dans la Renaissance italienne. L'ensemble de son érudition éclairci un moment dramatique et éclairante dans un débat beaucoup plus large sur la relation entre les sciences humaines, les conceptions actives de la citoyenneté, et des démocraties solides.