安-M-布莱尔 思想史学家

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Ann M. Blair
Intellectual Historian | Class of 2002
Tracing the influence of technological advances, as well as political and religious upheavals, on the transmission and evolution of ideas during the Renaissance.

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Title
Intellectual Historian
Affiliation
Harvard University
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Age
40 at time of award
Area of Focus
Cultural/Intellectual History and History of Religion
Published September 25, 2002
ABOUT ANN'S WORK
Ann Blair is an intellectual historian who has introduced fresh interpretations of early-modern European efforts to compile and classify knowledge. In The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (1997), Blair offers original analyses of the “commonplace” book of a leading Renaissance humanist, constituting his compendium of knowledge of the natural world. She shows how Bodin, motivated to diminish the violent religious upheaval of the times, offered a view of natural phenomena compatible with, and dependent on, shared theological views. In tracing the contemporaneous and subsequent reaction to his book, Blair also explains how it represents an influential methodological intermediate between the textual analysis of medieval natural philosophy and the empiricism of the modern science that replaced it. Her more recent efforts explore the strategies that scholars used to adjust to the information explosion during the Renaissance. She shows that methods of the medieval manuscript culture played just as influential a role in responding to this crisis of information as the new technologies of mechanical reproduction. Placing these responses within the political and religious conflict of the Renaissance, Blair documents historical responses to challenges that, in many ways, resonate with contemporary times.

BIOGRAPHY
Ann Blair received a B.A. (1984) from Harvard University, an M.Phil. (1985) from the University of Cambridge, and an M.A. (1987) and Ph.D. (1990) from Princeton University. She was an NSF-NATO postdoctoral fellow (1990–1991) in Paris and then taught at the University of California, Irvine (1992–1996), before relocating to her present position in the Department of History at Harvard University. Blair received the Distinguished Assistant Professor for Research Award (1995) from the University of California, Irvine, and was awarded an NEH Fellowship (1996).



安-M-布莱尔
思想史学家 | 2002级
追踪技术进步以及政治和宗教动荡对文艺复兴时期思想传播和演变的影响。

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标题
知识分子历史学家
工作单位
哈佛大学
工作地点
马萨诸塞州剑桥市
年龄
获奖时40岁
重点领域
文化/智力史和宗教史
发表于2002年9月25日
关于安-布莱尔的工作
安-布莱尔是一位知识分子历史学家，他对欧洲早期现代知识汇编和分类的努力提出了新的解释。在《自然的剧场》中。让-博丹和文艺复兴时期的科学》（1997年）中，布莱尔对文艺复兴时期一位主要人文主义者的 "通俗 "书籍进行了原创性分析，这些书籍构成了他对自然世界的知识汇编。她展示了博丹是如何在减少当时激烈的宗教动荡的动机下，提供了一种与共同的神学观点相一致并依赖于这些观点的自然现象观。在追踪同时代和随后对他的书的反应时，布莱尔还解释了这本书如何在中世纪自然哲学的文本分析和取代它的现代科学的经验主义之间代表一个有影响力的方法论。她最近的努力探讨了学者们在文艺复兴时期用来适应信息爆炸的策略。她表明，中世纪手稿文化的方法与机械复制的新技术一样，在应对这一信息危机中发挥了重要作用。布莱尔将这些反应置于文艺复兴时期的政治和宗教冲突中，记录了对挑战的历史反应，这些反应在很多方面都与当代产生了共鸣。

个人简历
安-布莱尔在哈佛大学获得学士学位（1984年），在剑桥大学获得哲学硕士学位（1985年）。(1985年），普林斯顿大学文学硕士（1987年）和博士（1990年）。她曾在巴黎担任NSF-NATO的博士后研究员（1990-1991），然后在加州大学欧文分校任教（1992-1996），之后调到哈佛大学历史系担任现在的职务。布莱尔获得了加州大学欧文分校的杰出助理教授研究奖（1995年），并获得了NEH奖学金（1996年）。