Books by Lisa Jardine

Another Point of View is a collection of twenty-two of the hugely popular and critically-acclaimed talks from the programme, on subjects as wide-ranging and topical as commuting, national identity, Christmas, Latin, knife crime, the mortgage crisis and the credit crunch. The book contains drawings by Nick Wadley.

This is a substantial and valuable study of the intellectual Renaissance background from which Bacon emerged and against which he reacted. Through a series of details comparisons and contrasts we are led to appreciate the true originality and ingenuity of Bacon's own views and also to discount the more superficial resemblances between them and later developments in the philosophy of science.

A collection of Lisa Jardine's essays which chart ten years of her thinking on the relationship between early modern history and the period's canonical texts. It provides an account of the rise of feminist scholarship since the 1980s and the diversifying of "new historicist" approaches.