Maryanne Cline Horowitz
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Professor of History and Title IX Officer, Occidental College
Associate, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

        Professor Horowitz is the Editor-in-Chief of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005), awarded by American Library Association as an Outstanding Reference Source. She is author of the book Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998). WINNER of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society. The illustrated book on the image of the mind as a garden has chapters on Stoics; Augustine and Aquinas; Jewish and Christian arboreal imagery; Marsilio Ficino, Italian humanists and Botticelli; Luther and Calvin; Erasmus, Alciati, Lipsius and Du Vair; Jean Bodin; Michel de Montaigne, and Pierre Charron.