Professor of History at Occidental College and Associate, UCLA Center for Medieval
and Renaissance Studies, Horowitz is the Editor-in-Chief of the New Dictionary of the
History of Ideas (N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005), an Outstanding Reference
Source as awarded by the American Library Association. She is the 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 book, on the image of the mind growing as a garden, interprets diverse applications
of "semina virtutum et scientarum" as an epistemology, a strategy, a paradigm
of science or folk psychology, a literary interetext, a metaphor related to visual
images, a language of vegetative growth, as well as a continuing controversy on assessing
humanity. 

For a full listing of articles and book chapters, see
http://faculty.oxy.edu/horowitz/ARTICLES%20AND%20BOOK%20CHAPTERS.htm

Articles

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Konstantinos Sp. Staikos. Great Libraries, Sixteenth Century Journal (2009)
 

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Humanist Horticulture: Twelve Agricultural Months and Twelve Categories of Books in Piero de' Medici's Studiolo, Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2003)
 

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The Tree at the Center and the Indo-European and Hebraic Image of Mind Growing as Plant, Cosmos: The Journal of Traditional Cosmology Society (1998)
 

Books

New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (2005)
 

Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge (1998)
 

Playing with Gender: A Renaissance Pursuit (1991)
 

Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe (1989)
 

Renaissance Rereadings: Intertext and Context (1988)
 

Contributions to Books

Cultural Nationalism, Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (2009)
 

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Visual Order to Organizing Collections, The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (2005)
 

Doubts about ‘Witches’ and ‘Magicians’ in Reginald Scot and Gabriel Naudé, History has Many Voices (2003)
 

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Gabriel Naudé's Apology for Great Men Suspected of Magic: Variations in Editions from 1625 to 1715, History of Heresy in Early Modern Europe: For, Against, and Beyond Persecution and Toleration (2002)
 

Diaries and Memoirs, The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (1999)
 

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Presentations

"Display of Collections in the 1610s in King James I's Great Britain" in session on “Humanist Culture in England", Renaissance Society of America (2012)
 

"Mapping and Telling Tales for Elite and Popular Delight: Abraham Ortelius (1570) and John Speed (1611)", UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2011)
 

"Montaigne’s Politics and Religion among His Earliest Readers,” in session series "In Memoriam Robert M. Kingdon", Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (2011)
 

Invited Speaker on “The Garden of the Mind,” 9th Annual Marco Symposium “Gardens, Real and Imagined”, Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Tennessee (2011)