ZACHARY SAYRE SCHIFFMAN.
is the author of On the
Threshold of Modernity:
Relativism in the French Renaissance (Johns Hopkins,
1991),
co-author
of Information Ages:
Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution
(Johns Hopkins, 1998), and editor of Humanism and the Renaissance
(Houghton Mifflin, 2002). He has published numerous
articles on early
modern history and historiography. He is currently completing a new
manuscript, The Birth
of the Past, on the idea of the past from
antiquity through the Enlightenment.
In addition to his graduate training in history at the University of
Chicago, Schiffman has been an Exxon Fellow at the Newberry Library and
a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. At
Northeastern he offers courses in his specialty of Renaissance and
Reformation history, as well as in ancient Greek and Roman history.
