Ann Thomson

Professor of European Intellectual History

European intellectual history in the long Eighteenth Century, especially France and Britain
Cultural Transfers and Intellectual networks
Europe and the Islamic world

English, French, German, Italian

For appointments please contact the Administrative Assistant: Francesca Parenti

Postal address:
Department of History and Civilization
Via Bolognese 156
50139 Florence - Italy

Office SACA 103 at Villa Salviati, Castello

Intellectual and Cultural History (with Prof G. Casale) - First Term 2019/2020
The Circulation of Ideas and Information (with Dr L. Martysheva) - First Term 2019/2020

Edited with Marie Leca-Tsiomis, Diderot et la politique, aujourd’hui, Paris: Société Diderot, L’Atelier, 2019.
Scotland and Enlightenment. National and International Perspectives, edited with Jean-François Dunyach, Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, 2015, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2015:08.
L'âme des Lumières. Le débat sur l'être humain entre religion et science Angleterre-France (1690-1760), Champ Vallon, Collection Epoques, 2013.
Edited with Simon Burrows and Edmond Dziembowski, Cultural Transfers: France and Britain in the long eighteenth century, Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, 2010, SVEC 2010:4.
Bodies of Thought: Science, Religion, and the Soul in the Early Enlightenment, Oxford University Press, 2008.

Collective publishing projects:

Edition of Book XI of Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes, Centre international d’étude du XVIIIe siècle, Ferney-Voltaire.
Section editor for France (17th-18th centuries), Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 1500-1900 (CMR 1900), University of Birmingham. To be published online and by Brill.