Peter Mack (academic)

Peter William David Mack FBA (born April 1955) was director of The Warburg Institute from 2010 to 2015.[1] He succeeded Charles Hope[2] and was succeeded by David Freedberg.[3] He is a specialist in the history of rhetoric and was formerly professor of English at the University of Warwick.

Selected publications

  • Renaissance Argument: Valla and Agricola in the Traditions of Rhetoric and Dialectic (Leiden, 1993)
  • Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice (Cambridge, 2002)
  • A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620 (Oxford, 2011)

References

  1. "Professor Peter Mack appointed Director of Warburg Institute". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  2. "Charles Hope | The New York Review of Books". Nybooks.com. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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