John Alexander Marenbon FBA (born 26 August 1955) is a British philosopher and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.^[1] His principal area of specialization is medieval philosophy.

Career

He obtained BA, MA, PhD, and DLitt degrees from the University of Cambridge.^[2] Since 1978 he has been a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a senior research fellow there since 2005. In 2010 he became an honorary professor of medieval philosophy at Cambridge,^[3] delivering an inaugural lecture entitled 'When was medieval philosophy?'.^[4] He has also taught at Paris-Sorbonne University, been a visiting fellow at both the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto, and held a visiting appointment at Peking University.

He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2009.^[5]

Since 2020 Marenbon has been a visiting professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.^[6]

Selected bibliography

Authored books

• Medieval Philosophy : an historical and philosophical Introduction, London and New York; Routledge, 2007
• The Cambridge Companion to Boethius (ed.), Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 2009
• The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy (editor), New York; Oxford University Press 2012
• The Hellenistic Schools and Thinking about Pagan Philosophy in the Middle Ages. A study of second-order influence [booklet], Basel; Schwabe, 2012
• Continuity and Innovation in Medieval and Modern Philosophy. Knowledge, mind, and language (editor), Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2013 = Proceedings of the British Academy 189
• Abelard in Four Dimensions. A twelfth-century philosopher in his context and ours, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013
• Pagans and Philosophers. The problem of paganism from Augustine to Leibniz, Princeton and Woodbridge; Princeton University Press 2015