John Marenbon is a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Visiting Professor at the Università della Svizzera Italiana. He was born in 1955 and educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his BA in 1976 and his PhD in 1981. In 2005 he became a Senior Research Fellow of Trinity and, in 2010, Honorary Professor of Medieval Philosophy in the University of Cambridge. In 2009 he was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. From 2020 he has been a Visiting Professor at the Università della Svizzera Italiana. His major books include The Philosophy of Peter Abelard (Cambridge University Press, 1997); Boethius (Oxford University Press, 2003); Le temps, la prescience et les futurs contingents – de Boèce à Thomas d’Aquin (Vrin, 2005); Medieval Philosophy: an historical and philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 2007); Abelard in Four Dimensions. A twelfth-century philosopher in his context and ours (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013); Pagans and Philosophers. The problem of paganism from Augustine to Leibniz (Princeton University Press, 2015). His main areas of work at present are: early medieval Latin philosophy, from c. 400 – c. 1100; philosophy outside the universities in the later Middle Ages and Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Middle Ages; metaphysical themes in medieval philosophy (especially modality, relations, states of affairs and matter); the social history of logic; methodology of the history of philosophy.
Email address: jm258@cam.ac.uk
Institutional webpage: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/john-marenbon-FBA/