![]() ![]() ![]() He continued that “her generosity and public spirit were legendary, and their effects were felt far outside the academy. Both skills came into play – as did her distinctive, powerful voice – in her long career as a broadcaster”. Professor Grafton added that she “also loved to put forward a bold thesis, in striking, provocative language. She enjoyed minute, precise research, and practised it to the end of her life.” “Lisa Jardine’s scholarship illuminated many subjects,” said Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam university professor at Princeton University, “from Renaissance dialectic to the culture of the Royal Society (which made her a Fellow), and from the careers of male master thinkers like Erasmus and Bacon to the portrayal of women in literature. Scholars have paid tribute to the academic polymath Lisa Jardine, the founding director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities at University College London, who died yesterday at the age of 71. ![]()
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