Professor King studies and teaches in the fields of the Italian Renaissance, the classical tradition; the social and cultural history of early modern Europe; women and learning 1300-1800; and the history of childhood from antiquity to the present. King's current research is on mothers and sons in history.
She has received Woodrow Wilson, Danforth, ACLS, NEH, American Philosophical Society, and Gladys Krieble Delmas fellowships; the Brooklyn College Broeklundian (2006-2011) and Tow (2000-2002) professorships; the Scaglione Prize for Translation from the MLA (2005), and two Marraro prizes (ACHA 1986, AHA 1996), among other honors.
Margaret King received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1967 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1972. She has taught at Brooklyn College since 1972; in the history department since 1980; and at the Graduate Center since 1987.
Selected publications:
Humanism, Venice, and Women: Essays on the Italian Renaissance (Variorum Collected Studies Series; Hampshire UK: Ashgate, 2005)
The Renaissance in Europe (Laurence King, © 2004; McGraw-Hill, ©. 2005)
Western Civilization: A Social and Cultural History (3rd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2004)
Isotta Nogarola, Complete Writings: Letterbook, Dialogue on Adam and Eve, Orations, ed. and trans. with Diana Robin (University of Chicago Press, 2004);
winner of the 2005 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature, Modern Language Association
The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello (University of Chicago Press, 1994); 1996 AHA Helen and Howard Marraro Prize for best book in Italian history
Women of the Renaissance (University of Chicago Press, 1991); translations in Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Dutch (1989-1994)
Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance (Princeton University Press, 1986); 1986 ACHA Howard Marraro Prize for best book in Italian history; translation into Italian 1989
Her Immaculate Hand: Selected Works By and About the Women Humanists of Quattrocento Italy, ed. and trans., with Albert Rabil, Jr. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 20; Binghamton, NY, 1983; 2nd ed., Pegasus, 1992).
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