Peter Burke

Peter Burke (n. 1937) este profesor de istorie la Emmanuel College, Universitatea din Cambridge. In lucrarile sale a abordat in special istoria culturala a Europei (1450–1750) si evolutia gandirii istorice. Carti: Culture and Society in Renaissance Italy (1972), Venice and Amsterdam: a Study of Seventeenth-Century Elites (1974), Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (1978), Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy: Essays on Perception and Communication (1987), The French Historical Revolution: the Annales School. 1929-89 (1990), The Art of Conversation (1990), The Fabrication of Louis XIV (1992), The Fortunes of the Courtier (1995), Varieties of Cultural History (1997), The European Renaissance: Centres and Peripheries (1998), A Social History of Knowledge from Gutenberg to Diderot (2000), New perspectives on historical writing (2001).