Hamilton, Alastair

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HAMILTON, Alastair

HAMILTON, Alastair. British, b. 1941. Genres: Intellectual history, History. Career: University of Urbino, Italy, professor of English, 1977-88; University of Leiden, Louise Thijssen-Schouten Professor of the History of Ideas, 1986-; University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, professor of radical reformation history, 1987-2001. Publications: The Appeal of Fascism: A Study of Intellectuals and Fascism, 1919-1945, 1970; The Family of Love, 1981; William Bedwell, the Arabist, 1563-1632, 1985; Heresy and Mysticism in Sixteenth-Century Spain: The Alumbrados, 1992; Europe and the Arab World, 1994; The Apocryphal Apocalypse: The Reception of the Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, 1999; Arab Culture and Ottoman Magnificance in Antwerp's Golden Age, 2001; The Family of Love I: Hendrik Niclaes, 2003. Address: Opleiding Engels, University of Leiden, PO Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands.

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