Sir Noel Malcolm

I did my doctoral research at Cambridge, and began my career there as a Fellow of Gonville & Caius College. I later wrote for the Spectator (where I was Foreign Editor) and the Telegraph, and was an independent scholar before coming to All Souls in 2002. I was elected to the British Academy in 2001, and at Cambridge I am an Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse, Trinity and Caius. I have worked most of all in two fields: early modern intellectual history, with a special focus on the philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679); and the history and culture of the Balkans. I have also written about Venetian-Ottoman relations in the 16th-century Mediterranean, and Western ideas about Islam and the Ottoman Empire. A recent book, covering both Western Europe and the Ottoman world, was on the history of same-sex relations in the early modern period. Other recent work includes a volume of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Hobbes (the Autobiographical and Occasional Writings, forthcoming); I am one of the General Editors of the series, for which I have previously edited both the Correspondence (2 vols., 1994) and Leviathan (3 vols., 2012).