Daniel Christopher Andersson
Positions Held
October 2010 – date:
Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and member of the
History Faculty, University of Oxford
September 2007- September 2010 Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
(2009 Visiting Professor, ECLA, Berlin )
September 2004 – August
2007: Solicitor, Addlehsaw Goddard
September 2002-
September 2004: Trainee Solicitor, Halliwell Landau
Education
2000-2006: The Warburg Institute, London University
PhD title: Studies in the Early Elizabethan Writings of Henry Howard, later Earl of Northampton (1540-1613)
1998-1999: The Warburg Institute, London University
MA Combined Historical Studies (The Renaissance)
Dissertation title: The Classical Scholarship of Marc-Antoine Muret (1526-1585).
1992-1997: St. John’s College, Oxford University
Publications
Books
Lord Henry
Howard: An Elizabethan Life, Boydell and Brewer, 2009
(reviewed Renaissance Quarterly, 2010, 63, pp. 989-990)
Natural Philosophy for his Sister: Bodley MS 616, MRTS: Tempe:Az (forthcoming 2011 – formally awaiting signed contract following positive reader’s report)
Richard Crakanthorpe: Introductio in naturalem philosophiam, edited with an introduction and commentary, Peter Lang, (under contract)
Francis Bacon, Early Philosophical Writings to c. 1611, (volume 5 of the Oxford Francis Bacon edition), co-edited with Rhodri Lewis and Sophie Weeks, Oxford: OUP (in preparation, under contract)
Articles
"Th’ Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame‘: Aristotelian Exposures in Montaigne", in Exposures, edd. K Banks and J. Harris, Modern French Identities series, Peter Lang, 2004, pp. 151-165
“Embarke, But Under Caution: New Fragments of an Elizabethan Masque”, Notes and Queries, 2008, pp. 171-177
"Juan Luis Vives: A Pious Eclectic",
in Philosophers of the Renaissance,
ed. P. R. Blum, Washington, CUAP, 2010,
pp. 144-168
‘Anagogicis….excessibus: A philological addendum to the religious phenomenology of Frans Titelmans.’, Verbum. Analecta Neolatina, June 2009, pp. 55-59
“Dialectic and the Church: Experience, Ecclesiology and the Limits of Argument in the Presbyterian Crisis”, Renaissance and Reformation (forthcoming 2010)
“Bodley MS 616 and Natural
Philosophy in Renaissance Cambridge”, History
of Universities, 2009, pp.
55-102
“Did
Diomedes know Latin? A note on the De Optativis” in Hermes, 2010
“Philosophy and the Early
Modern Encyclopedia: Aspects of the Reception of Aristotle”, in Encyclopedism Before Diderot, edd. G. D.
Woolf and J. König, Cambridge: CUP (forthcoming 2011)
‘Learning
Arabic in Seventeenth-Century England: John Pell’, in Cultures of
Multilingualism, ed. Jans Braarvig, Springer (forthcoming)
‘Affective
Consequences of Syntactic Transposition in Vergil’s Aeneid’, note
submitted to Classical
Quarterly
‘Theophilus
Gale and the Intellectual Virtues’, submitted to Journal of the History of
Ideas
Reviews
John Bossy, Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story, Yale,
2002, in Notes and Queries, 49, 2002, pp. 106-107
Steven Matthews, Theology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon,
Ashgate, 2009, in Intellectual History Review, 2009, pp. 372-374
Robert Greene, Planetomachia, ed. Nandini Das, Ashgate, 2008, in Sixteenth
Century Journal, 2009, pp. 144-145
Marc-Antoine Muret, Iuvenilia, ed. V. Leroux, Geneva, 2009, in Renaissance
Quarterly, 63, 2010, pp. 581-582
Istvan Keul, Early Modern Communities in East-Central Europe. Ethnic Diversity,
Denominational Plurality and Corporative Politics in the Principality of
Transylvania (1526-1682), Brill, 2009, Sixteenth Century Journal, forthcoming
Katalin Eperjesi, Anglo-Transylvanian Contacts in the Thirty Years War. The Early Stuarts
and Transylvania During the Thirty Years War, Saarbrucken, 2008, in English Historial Review. (forthcoming)
D. G. Newcombe, John
Hooper. Tudor Bishop
and Reformer, 2009, English Historical Review, (forthcoming)
Internet
Publications
Beyond the Statutes: Richard Stanihurst and the Teaching of Logic in Tudor Oxford
http://www.ucc.ie/acad/classics/CNLS/lectures/Andersson_porphyry.html
Form, Ego and the Avant-Garde
www.shitcreekreview.com/issue4
Blog on contemporary
poetry:
http://dcandersson.blogspot.com/
Teaching Experience
Lecture Courses for the History Faculty, Oxford University
The Care of the Soul 1500-1650, Hilary Term, 2011
Early Modern Transylvania, Hilary Term, 2011
Lectures Courses for the English Faculty
Inheritances of Modernism: Contemporary Poetry, Hilary Term 2011
Lectures Courses for the Classics Faculty
101 Things to do with NeoLatin, Hilary Term 2011
Montaigne and the Modern Self, International Summer University 2009, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin: three lectures (Stoicism, Montaigne, Christopher Marlowe), seventeen seminars (Nietzsche, Freud, Shakespeare, Clastres, Thomas Mann, Machiavelli, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Locke, Conrad) with thirty five associated tutorial sessions.
History and Philosophy of Science, Eight undergraduate tutorials, Hertford College, Oxford, Michaelmas Term, 2011
Two sets of four tutorials (Safavid Persia; early modern Britain), visiting students at Oxford University, Hilary Term 2011
Other Oral Performances
Organisation of the conference: The Matter of Modernity Science, Humanism and the Literary 1500-1650, May 24th 2003, at Gresham College, Holborn, London EC1N 2HH
Formal commentator on Professor Lorraine Daston’s paper, ‘Collective Observation in Early Modern Europe’, MPIWG, October 15th 2008
‘Francis Bacon and Notetaking’, presentation for a seminar series, MPIWG, January 20th 2009
‘The scope of civil law argumentation in Lord Henry Howard’s Dutifull Defence’, paper given at Sheffield University, February 6th 2009
Organisation of the conference Observation, Evidence and Reason in the Long Renaissance: The Arts Course Between the Reformation and Newton, MPIWG, 27th -28th April 2009 (http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/workshops/en/artscourse.html)
‘A Historian of Science Looks at Practical Divinity’, Colloquium paper, MPIWG, May 5th 2009
'Of Books, Measurement and Coloured Shoes: The Renaissance Orientalism of a German Traveller', Early Modern Exchanges, UCL, 2010
Current Projects
A Volume on Knowledge and Early Modern Practical Divinity
A Volume on the Arts Course at Oxford and Cambridge (in conjunction with R. W. Serjeantson)
A Philological History of Aristotle’s Physics
Languages
Reading Literacy: Ancient Greek, Latin, Middle English, Italian, French, German
Reading Skill: Swedish, Romanian, Arabic.
(currently learning ab initio: Hungarian).
Creative Work
Recent poetry in Orbis, Berlin Bordercrossings, Anon, Singapore Literary Review, 10th Muse, Nth Position, The Interpreter’s House, Great Works, Brittle Star, The Journal, Weyfarers, Purple Patch, The Worm.
Other
Interests
Renaissance humanism and the
reception of the ancient world 1450-1650; Tudor/Stuart England; Transylvania;
the history of religion and of science; the European encounter with Arabic and
Islam; contemporary poetry.
References
Jill Kraye,
The Warburg Institute,
London
0207 862 8916
Richard Serjeantson
Trinity College
Cambridge
Rhodri Lewis
St. Hugh’s College
Oxford
Angus Gowland
University College
London