John Marenbon

John Alexander Marenbon FBA (born 26 August 1955) is a British philosopher and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His principal area of specialization is medieval philosophy.

Career Marenbon was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, obtaining BA, MA, PhD, and DLitt degrees from the University of Cambridge. He has also taught at Paris-Sorbonne University, been a visiting fellow at both the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto, and held a visiting appointment at Peking University.

He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2009.

Since 2020 Marenbon has been a visiting professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.

Selected bibliography

Authored books

Medieval Philosophy : an historical and philosophical Introduction, London and New York; Routledge, 2007 The Cambridge Companion to Boethius (ed.), Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 2009 The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy (editor), New York; Oxford University Press 2012 The Hellenistic Schools and Thinking about Pagan Philosophy in the Middle Ages. A study of second-order influence [booklet], Basel; Schwabe, 2012 Continuity and Innovation in Medieval and Modern Philosophy. Knowledge, mind, and language (editor), Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2013 = Proceedings of the British Academy 189 Abelard in Four Dimensions. A twelfth-century philosopher in his context and ours, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013 Pagans and Philosophers. The problem of paganism from Augustine to Leibniz, Princeton and Woodbridge; Princeton University Press 2015