Peter Mack (academic)
Peter William David Mack FBA (16 April 1955 – 5 October 2023) was a British academic who was director of The Warburg Institute from 2010 to 2015.[1][2] He succeeded Charles Hope[3] and was succeeded by David Freedberg.[4] He was a specialist in the history of rhetoric and was formerly professor of English at the University of Warwick.
Mack died in a traffic collision in France, on 5 October 2023, at the age of 68.[5][6]
Selected publications
[edit]- Renaissance Argument: Valla and Agricola in the Traditions of Rhetoric and Dialectic (Leiden, 1993)
- Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice (Cambridge, 2002)
- A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620 (Oxford, 2011)
References
[edit]- ^ "Professor Peter Mack obituary". The Times. 17 October 2023. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
- ^ "Professor Peter Mack appointed Director of Warburg Institute". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
- ^ "Charles Hope | The New York Review of Books". Nybooks.com. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Hadfield, Andrew (13 October 2023). "Peter Mack obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
- ^ "Professor Peter Mack FBA (1955–2023)". University of Warwick. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
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