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Publications: Prof Quentin Skinner

Hoekstra K, Skinner Q ( 2020 ) . The liberties of the ancients: a roundtable with Kinch Hoekstra and Quentin Skinner . Liberty ,
Skinner Q ( 2020 ) . Chapter 13. The Last Academic Project . Between Utopia and Realism ,
Skinner Q ( 2019 ) . 1. The diplomat . Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction ,
Skinner Q ( 2019 ) . 2. The adviser to princes . Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction ,
Skinner Q ( 2019 ) . 3. The theorist of liberty . Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction ,
Skinner Q ( 2019 ) . 4. The historian of Florence . Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction ,
Skinner Q ( 2019 ) . Introduction . Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction ,
Skinner Q, Perl JM ( 2019 ) . Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe by Stuart Clark . Common Knowledge vol. 25 , ( 1-3 ) 411 - 412 .
SKINNER Q ( 2019 ) . Quentin Skinner and Russell Prince, editors, Machiavelli, The Prince, Cambridge University Press 2019, ISBN9781107145863 . Editors: SKINNER, QRD, Price, R , Cambridge University Press
Hoekstra K, Skinner Q ( 2018 ) . The liberties of the ancients: a roundtable with Kinch Hoekstra and Quentin Skinner . History of European Ideas vol. 44 , ( 6 ) 812 - 825 .
Skinner Q ( 2018 ) . From Humanism to Hobbes .
SKINNER QRD ( 2018 ) . From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics, Cambridge University Press 2018, ISBN9781107128859 . Cambridge University Press
Skinner Q, Hamel C ( 2018 ) . Hobbes et la représentation . Raisons politiques vol. 72 , ( 4 )
SKINNER QRD ( 2018 ) . Quentin Skinner, ‘On the person of the state’ in State Formations: Global Histories and Cultures of Statehood, ed. John L. Brooke, Julia C. Strauss and Greg Anderson, Cambridge, pp. 25-44 . State Formations: Global Histories and Cultures of Statehood , Editors: Brooke, J , Cambridge University Press ( Cambridge, England ),
SKINNER QRD ( 2018 ) . State and Liberty: Quentin Skinner’s Lectures in China 262pp., University of Peking Press, Beijing, 2017. ISBN978-7-301-29766-7 . University of Peking Press ( Beijing ),
Skinner Q ( 2017 ) . A Third Concept of Liberty . The Liberty Reader ,
Skinner Q ( 2017 ) . Significado e interpretação na História das Ideias . Tempo e Argumento vol. 9 , ( 20 ) 358 - 399 .
Skinner Q ( 2017 ) . Wahrheit, Überzeugung und Interpretation . Ideengeschichte heute , vol. 112 ,
SKINNER Q ( 2017 ) . Quentin Skinner, Wahrheit, Uberzeugung und Interpretation’ in Ideengeschichte Heute, ed. D. Timothy Goering, Bielefeld, pp. 55-68 . Goering, Bielefeld ( Bielefeld, Germany ),
Skinner Q, von Busekist A, Hauchecorne M, Matonti F ( 2017 ) . « Nous sommes peut-être beaucoup moins libres que nous le pensons » . Raisons politiques vol. 67 , ( 3 )
SKINNER QRD ( 2016 ) . Climate change in the light of history . Nature, Action and the Future , Editors: Smith, S, Forrester, K , Cambridge University Press
SKINNER QRD ( 2016 ) . Machiavelli and the misunderstanding of princely virtù . Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict , Editors: Johnston, D , Chicago University Press
SKINNER QRD ( 2016 ) . Why Shylocke loses his case: Judicial rhetoric in The Merchant of Venice . The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature 1500-1700 , Editors: Hutson, L , Oxford University Press
SKINNER QRD ( 2016 ) . Hobbes and the Social Control of Unsociability . The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes , Editors: Martinich, AL, Hoekstra, K , Oxford University Press
SKINNER QRD ( 2016 ) . Thinking about Liberty: an Historian’s Approach (Olschki, Florence, 2016), 75pp. ISBN9788822264602 . Olschki, Florence
Skinner Q ( 2015 ) . Gratefully Acknowledging My Intellectual Debts . In Debate with Kari Palonen ,
Skinner Q ( 2014 ) . Forensic Shakespeare . Oxford University Press ( Oxford ),
Skinner Q ( 2014 ) . Freedom of inclination: On the republican theory of liberty . Juncture vol. 21 , ( 2 ) 131 - 135 .
Skinner Q ( 2013 ) . Liberty and Security: The Early-Modern English Debate . Sicherheit in der Frühen Neuzeit ,
Skinner Q ( 2013 ) . A Spurious Dating for All's Well that Ends Well . Notes and Queries vol. 60 , ( 3 ) 429 - 434 .
Skinner Q ( 2013 ) . Introduction . Freedom and the Construction of Europe ,
Skinner Q ( 2013 ) . Postscriptum: An Exchange with the Editors . Ab Imperio vol. 2013 , ( 1 ) 61 - 63 .
Kessler C, Skinner Q, Maddison S, Malpas N, Gascoigne J, Rao U, Donald J ( 2013 ) . Q&A Session after the Public Lecture of Quentin Skinner . Ab Imperio vol. 2013 , ( 1 ) 55 - 60 .
Skinner Q, Ricks C ( 2012 ) . Up for Interpretation or What Is This Thing that Hearsay Is Not? . Literary Imagination vol. 14 , ( 2 ) 125 - 142 .
Skinner Q ( 2012 ) . Liberty before Liberalism .
SKINNER QRD ( 2012 ) . On the Liberty of the Ancients and the Moderns: A Reply to My Critics . Journal of the History of Ideas: an international quarterly devoted to intellectual history vol. 73 , ( 1 ) 127 - 146 .
Kalmo H, Skinner Q ( 2010 ) . Introduction: a concept in fragments . Sovereignty in Fragments ,
Skinner Q ( 2010 ) . The sovereign state: a genealogy . Sovereignty in Fragments ,
Montes L, Skinner Q ( 2010 ) . Sentido y comprensión de la historia del pensamiento político . Estudios Públicos ( 118 )
Skinner Q ( 2010 ) . Una genealogía del Estado moderno . Estudios Públicos ( 118 )
Skinner Q ( 2010 ) . On the Slogans of Republican Political Theory . European Journal of Political Theory vol. 9 , ( 1 ) 95 - 102 .
SKINNER QRD ( 2009 ) . A genealogy of the modern state . Proceedings of the British Academy , vol. 162 , Oxford University Press
SKINNER QRD ( 2009 ) . On trusting the judgment of our rulers . Political Judgment, ed R. Bourke and R. Geuss , Cambridge University Press
Skinner Q, Asal S, Druffner F, Groebner V ( 2009 ) . Wie frei sind wir wirklich? Fragen an Quentin Skinner . Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte vol. 3 , ( 2 ) 5 - 21 .
Skinner Q ( 2009 ) . ‘Afterword: Shakespeare and humanist culture’ . Shakespeare and early-modern Political Thought , Cambridge University Press ( Cambridge ),
Skinner Q ( 2008 ) . Part Two: Is it still possible to interpret texts? . INT J PSYCHOANAL vol. 89 , ( 3 ) 647 - 654 .
Skinner Q ( 2008 ) . What Does It Mean to Be a Free Person? . London Review of Books vol. 30 , ( 10 ) 16 - 18 .
Skinner Q ( 2008 ) . Hobbes and Republican Liberty . Cambridge University Press
SKINNER QRD ( 2008 ) . Freedom as the absence of arbitrary power . Republicanism and Political Theory , Blackwell ( Oxford ),
Skinner Q ( 2008 ) . Thomas Hobbes and the Renaissance <i>Studia Humanitatis</i> . Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Volume 142 , Thomson Gale ( Farmington Hills, MI ),
Skinner Q ( 2007 ) . Paradiastole: redescribing the vices as virtues . Renaissance Figures of Speech ,
Sebastián JF, Skinner Q ( 2007 ) . Intellectual History, Liberty and Republicanism . Contributions to the History of Concepts vol. 3 , ( 1 ) 103 - 123 .
Hamilton-Bleakley H, Skinner Q ( 2006 ) . Surveying The Foundations: a retrospect and reassessment . Rethinking The Foundations of Modern Political Thought ,
Skinner Q ( 2006 ) . Afterword . British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory, 1500–1800 ,
Ellison CA, Skinner QD, Ready KJ ( 2006 ) . DISCHARGE AND SUSPENDED SEDIMENT PATTERNS OF AN INTERMITTENT COLD DESERT STREAM1 . JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association vol. 42 , ( 1 ) 55 - 68 .
Skinner Q ( 2006 ) . Rethinking political liberty . HIST WORKSHOP J ( 61 ) 156 - 170 .
Skinner Q ( 2005 ) . La libertad de las repúblicas: ¿un tercer concepto de libertad? . Isegoría vol. 0 , ( 33 ) 19 - 49 .
Skinner Q ( 2005 ) . Hobbes on representation (Thomas Hobbes) . EUR J PHILOS vol. 13 , ( 2 ) 155 - 184 .
Jurdjevic M, Skinner Q ( 2005 ) . Visions of Politics . Sixteenth Century Journal vol. 36 , ( 2 )
Thorne MS, Meiman PJ, Skinner QD, Smith MA, Dodd JL ( 2005 ) . Clipping Frequency Affects Canopy Volume and Biomass Production in Planeleaf Willow (Salix planifolia var. planifolia Prush) . Rangeland Ecology & Management vol. 58 , ( 1 ) 41 - 50 .
Skinner Q ( 2005 ) . On Intellectual History and the History of Books . Contributions to the History of Concepts vol. 1 , ( 1 )
Miller SW, Skinner QD, Ready KJ ( 2004 ) . STREAM ASSESSMENTS USING BIOTIC INDICES: RESPONSES TO PHYSICOCHEMICAL VARIABLES1 . JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association vol. 40 , ( 5 ) 1173 - 1188 .
Skinner Q, Strath B ( 2003 ) . States and citizens - History, theory, prospects - Introduction . STATES AND CITIZENS : HISTORY, THEORY, PROSPECTS . Editors: Skinner, Q, Strath, B , 1 - 8 .
Skinner Q ( 2003 ) . States and the freedom of citizens . STATES AND CITIZENS : HISTORY, THEORY, PROSPECTS . Editors: Skinner, Q, Strath, B , 11 - 27 .
Van Gelderen M, Skinner Q ( 2002 ) . Introduction . Republicanism ,
Skinner Q ( 2002 ) . Visions of Politics .
Thorne MS, Skinner QD, Smith MA, Rodgers JD, Laycock WA, Cerekci SA ( 2002 ) . Evaluation of a Technique for Measuring Canopy Volume of Shrubs . Journal of Range Management vol. 55 , ( 3 )
Skinner Q, Dasgupta P, Geuss R, Lane M, Laslett P, O'Neill O, Runciman WG, Kuper A ( 2002 ) . Political philosophy: The view from Cambridge . J POLIT PHILOS vol. 10 , ( 1 ) 1 - 19 .
Skinner Q ( 2002 ) . John Milton and the Politics of Slavery . Milton and the Terms of Liberty , Boydell & Brewer ( Cambridge, England ),
SKINNER Q ( 2002 ) . Visions of Politics: Volume I: Regarding Method Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-58926-0 . Cambridge University Press
SKINNER Q ( 2002 ) . Visions of Politics: Volume II: Renaissance Virtues Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-58926-0 . Cambridge University Press
SKINNER Q ( 2002 ) . Visions of Politics: Volume III: Hobbes and Civil Science Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-89060-1 . Cambridge University Press
Skinner Q ( 2001 ) . The rise of, challenge to and prospects for a Collingwoodian approach to the history of political thought . The History of Political Thought in National Context ,
( 2001 ) . Liberté Politique et Corruption par Quentin Skinner . Magazine Littéraire vol. 397 , 62 - 62 .
Skinner Q ( 2001 ) . Machiavelli .
Skinner Q ( 2001 ) . Political theory after the enlightenment project . SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF INTERPRETIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE . Editors: Scott, JW, Keates, D , 15 - 24 .
Skinner Q ( 2001 ) . Why laughing mattered in the Renaissance: The second Henry Tudor Memorial Lecture, delivered 10 March 2000, University of Durham . HIST POLIT THOUGHT vol. 22 , ( 3 ) 418 - 447 .
Skinner Q ( 2000 ) . Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction . Oxford University Press ( Oxford, England ),
Skinner Q ( 2000 ) . Thomas Hobbes's changing conception of civil science . ENLIGHTENMENT, PASSION, MODERNITY . Editors: Micale, MS, Dietle, RL , 27 - 43 .
Skinner Q ( 1999 ) . The Advancement of Francis Bacon . The New York Review of Books vol. 46 , ( 17 ) 53 - 56 .
Skinner Q ( 1999 ) . Ambrogio Lorenzetti's 'Buon Governo' frescoes: 2 old questions, 2 new answers . J WARBURG COURTAULD vol. 62 , 1 - 28 .
Skinner Q ( 1999 ) . Thomas Hobbes and the Renaissance: <i>Studia Humanitatis</i> . Writing and Political Engagement in Seventeenth-Century England , Cambridge University Press ( Cambridge, England ),
SKINNER Q ( 1998 ) . Liberty before Liberalism Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 978-1-107-68953-4 . Cambridge University Press
Skinner Q ( 1996 ) . Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes .
( 1995 ) . Milton and Republicanism . Cambridge University Press
SKINNER Q ( 1994 ) . Moral Ambiguity and the Renaissance Art of Eloquence . Essays in Criticism vol. XLIV , ( 4 ) 267 - 292 .
Skinner Q ( 1992 ) . The Context of Hobbes's Theory of Political Obligation . Thomas Hobbes , Garland Publishing, Inc. ( New York ),
Skinner Q ( 1990 ) . Thomas Hobbes: Rhetoric and the Construction of Morality . Proceedings of the British Academy vol. 76 , 1 - 61 .
Skinner Q ( 1987 ) . Sir Thomas More's <i>Utopia</i> and the Language of Renaissance Humanism . The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe , Cambridge University Press ( Cambridge ),
SKINNER Q ( 1979 ) . The Idea of a Cultural Lexicon . Essays in Criticism vol. XXIX , ( 3 ) 205 - 224 .
SKINNER Q ( 1978 ) . The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume I: The Renaissance, Cambridge University Press, 1978. ISBN 978-0-521-29337-2 . Cambridge University Press
SKINNER Q ( 1978 ) . The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume II: The Age of Reformation Cambridge University Press, 1978. ISBN 978-0-521-29435-5 . Cambridge University Press
Skinner Q ( 1978 ) . The Lesson of Thomas More . The New York Review of Books vol. 12 Oct. , 57 - 60 .
( 1975 ) . Critical Challenges: The Bellagio Symposium . New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation vol. 7 , ( 1 ) 5 - 232 .
Skinner Q ( 1975 ) . Hermeneutics and the Role of History . New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation vol. 7 , 209 - 232 .
Skinner Q ( 1972 ) . Motives, Intentions, and the Interpretation of Texts . New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation vol. 3 , 393 - 408 .
( 1972 ) . On Interpretation: I . New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation vol. 3 , ( 2 ) 229 - 430 .
Skinner Q ( 1971 ) . On Performing and Explaning Linguistic Actions . The Philosophical Quarterly vol. 21 , 1 - 21 .
Skinner Q ( 1967 ) . MORE'S UTOPIA . Past & Present vol. 38 , ( 1 ) 153 - 168 .
Skinner Q ( 1963 ) . Sheridan and Whitbread at Drury Lane, 1809-1815 . Theatre Notebook: A Journal of the History and Technique of the British Theatre vol. 17 , 40 - 79 .