A Companion to Intellectual History

A Companion to Intellectual History provides an in-depth survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline. Forty newly-commissioned chapters showcase leading global research with broad coverage of every aspect of intellectual history as it is currently practiced. * Presents an in-depth survey of recent research and practice of intellectual history * Written in a clear and accessible manner, designed for an international audience * Surveys the various methodologies that have arisen and the main historiographical debates that concern intellectual historians * Pays special attention to contemporary controversies, providing readers with the most current overview of the field * Demonstrates the ways in which intellectual historians have contributed to the history of science and medicine, literary studies, art history and the history of political thought