James Hankins - "What Can We Learn From The Western Tradition?"

James Hankins, Professor of History at Harvard, is one of the leading contemporary historians of the intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance, though he is currently working with Allen Guelzo, an earlier CLAFI lecturer, on a 2-volume history of the Western tradition, to be published in 2025 by Encounter Books. In 2012 he was awarded the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award of the Renaissance Society of America. His many books include Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy (2019) and Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy (2023). He is the Founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library (Harvard University Press).