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Brian Stock (historian)
Brian Stock (born June 8, 1939) is an American born Canadian historian. He is a historian of modes of perception between the ancient world and the sixteenth century. He was Rouse Ball Student at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Senior Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, before joining the graduate faculty of the University of Toronto, where he taught history and literature until 2007. He is a Canadian and French citizen.
Educated in Canada, Stock completed his A.B., summa cum laude, at Harvard College in 1962 and his Ph.D. at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1967. He carried out post-doctoral studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris and the University of Rome, La Sapienza.
He was elected a Junior Fellow of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, in 1966-67 and a Senior Fellow in 1972 (with a cross-appointment as full professor at the University of Toronto). He subsequently taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He was elected to a visiting professorship at the Collège de France in 1987 and to the Chaire Internationale in that institution in 1996.
He delivered the A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography at the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. He was elected the Sather Professor of Classical Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001. He delivered the Jerusalem Lectures of the Historical Society of Israel in 2005.
He has been a visiting university professor at several institutions and presently holds that position at the Central European University (Budapest). He has been visiting Mellon Professor of Classics at Brown University, where a colloquium on The Implications of Literacy was held in 1986 under the auspices of the NEH. An international conference on his publications was held in Toronto in 2019. He is presently Senior Research Fellow at Victoria College, University of Toronto and holds the chair of criticism at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome, which awarded him the prestigious International Feltrinelli Prize in 2007.
He has one daughter, Maxime Pineau-Valencienne, and two grandchildren, Marie-Capucine and Thomas.
International Feltrinelli Prize, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, 2007
Brian Stock’s scholarship engages the history of science, the history of literacy, and the history of reading.
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Brian Stock (historian)
Brian Stock (born June 8, 1939) is an American born Canadian historian. He is a historian of modes of perception between the ancient world and the sixteenth century. He was Rouse Ball Student at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Senior Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, before joining the graduate faculty of the University of Toronto, where he taught history and literature until 2007. He is a Canadian and French citizen.
Educated in Canada, Stock completed his A.B., summa cum laude, at Harvard College in 1962 and his Ph.D. at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1967. He carried out post-doctoral studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris and the University of Rome, La Sapienza.
He was elected a Junior Fellow of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, in 1966-67 and a Senior Fellow in 1972 (with a cross-appointment as full professor at the University of Toronto). He subsequently taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He was elected to a visiting professorship at the Collège de France in 1987 and to the Chaire Internationale in that institution in 1996.
He delivered the A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography at the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. He was elected the Sather Professor of Classical Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001. He delivered the Jerusalem Lectures of the Historical Society of Israel in 2005.
He has been a visiting university professor at several institutions and presently holds that position at the Central European University (Budapest). He has been visiting Mellon Professor of Classics at Brown University, where a colloquium on The Implications of Literacy was held in 1986 under the auspices of the NEH. An international conference on his publications was held in Toronto in 2019. He is presently Senior Research Fellow at Victoria College, University of Toronto and holds the chair of criticism at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome, which awarded him the prestigious International Feltrinelli Prize in 2007.
He has one daughter, Maxime Pineau-Valencienne, and two grandchildren, Marie-Capucine and Thomas.
International Feltrinelli Prize, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, 2007
Brian Stock’s scholarship engages the history of science, the history of literacy, and the history of reading.
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