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 Harold Stone

Harold S. Stone, Professor of History and Humanities

Stone joined the Shimer faculty in 1983 and, after teaching at Colgate University and the American University in Cairo, returned to Shimer in 2000. 

From 1987 to 1994 Stone was Assistant Professor at Colgate University.  He was an Assistant Professor at the American University in Cairo from 1994 to 1998, where he was Associate Professor from 1998 to 2000. 

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Committee on Social Thought
University of Chicago, 1981

M.A. History
University of Chicago, 1972

B.A.
St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland 1971


PUBLICATIONS

Books

St. Augustine’s Bones: A Microhistory. University of Massachusetts Press, 2003

Vico’s Cultural History, The Production and Transmission of Ideas in Naples, 1685-1750.  Leiden, Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1997. E.J. Brill Studies in Intellectual History series, 73.

Cohler, A., Miller, B. and Stone, H., Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series, Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Stone, H., Rampolla M., Miracles of the Virgin Accomplished at Chartres, Colgate University, 1989.

Recent Articles

“Book 18 of  The City of God, Bianchini’s Universal History and the New Science of Vico” to appear in Augustine and History, Lexington Books,  2006.

“A description of the critical apparatus of Montesquieu’s De l’esprit des lois”, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, accepted pending revisions.

“Why Europeans Stopped Reading Averroes: The Case of Pierre Bayle,”  Alif, 1996, 16, 77-91.

“The Achievement of Franco Venturi”, The American Scholar, Summer, 1995, v.64, 408-414.

Harold Stone and Margaret Maurer, “An Elizabethan Euclid”, Philobiblon or the love of books, Spring, 1991, 9-27.