Robert D. Black

Professor of Renaissance History

Research interests

  • History of education in Renaissance Italy
  • Florentine medieval and Medieval and Renaissance history
  • Renaissance humanism
  • Renaissance historiography
  • Machiavelli

Current research includes a history of school education in medieval and Renaissance Tuscany (to be published by Brill).

Research Supervision

  • Renaissance humanism
  • Medieval and Renaissance Italian history

Current and recent research students have studied the historical writings of Sir John Hayward and the political thought of the restored Medici regime (1512-1527).