Samuel Cohn is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and an honorary fellow of IASH. Over the past 20 years he has specialised in the history of popular unrest in late medieval and early modern Europe and in the history of disease and medicine. He has published books on labour history, popular insurrection, women in the Renaissance, religious piety, violence, ritual, and medical history and epidemics from the Plague of Athens to AIDS. He has just completed a book on Autocracy and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy.
