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David Rutherford received
his Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, in 1988. He joined the faculty at CMU in
1991. He has held post-doctoral fellowships at the Villa
I Tatti (1990) and the American Academy in Rome (1996).
Research Interests
Professor Rutherford has published on Italian
Renaissance humanists, in particular, on their return to
the genre of invective laid out in the ancient
rhetorical manuals. He is presently working on the
history of reading and writing as reflected in the
reception of Lactantius Firmianus (AD 250-325),
examining the circulation and study of his works from
the fourth through the seventeenth centuries.
Recent
Publications
Early Renaissance Invective and the Controversies of
Antonio da Rho. Renaissance Text Series 19. MRTS
301. Tempe, AZ: Renaissance Society of America, 2005.
"Antonio da Rho on Patristic Authority: The Status of
Lactantius." In Auctoritas Patrum II: New
Contributions on the Reception of the Church Fathers in
the 15th and 16th Centuries, ed. L. Grane, A.
Schindler, and M. Wriedt, 171-86. Mainz: Philipp von
Zabern, 1998.
"Gratian's Decretum as a Source of Patristic Knowledge
in the Italian Renaissance: The Example of Timoteo
Maffei's In sanctam rusticitatem (1454)." In The
Reception of the Church Fathers in the West: From the
Carolingians to the Maurists, ed. Irena Backus,
2:511-35. Leiden-New York-Cologne: Brill, 1997.
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