Skinner's Historical and Theoretical Foundations 1. Understanding ?Meaning and Understanding?: Context, Content, And Discontent, ADRIAN BLAU 2. Yet Another Contest of the Faculties? Quentin Skinner on Meaning and Understanding in the History of Philosophy, JAMES GORDON FINLAYSON 3. Learning from the History of Political Thought: The Figure of the Cook in Skinner, Passmore, Lenin, and Plato, MELISSA LANE 4. Quentin Skinner and the Historical Interpretation of Political Philosophy, AL MARTINICH Expanding Skinner?s Contexts 5. Meaning, Context, Interpretations in the Islamic Tradition: Provincializing Skinnerian Contextualism, HUMEIRA IQTIDAR 6. Meaning And Understanding in the History of Ancient Greek Political Thought, CAROL ATACK 7. Methods v.

Purposes in Skinner: For a Textualist Approach to Constitutional and Parliamentary Debates, ROCHANA BAJPAI Ideology, Rhetoric and Language 8. Quentin Skinner and the Analysis of Ideology, JONATHAN LEADER MAYNARD 9. Ideological Innovation, Rhetorical Political Analysis and English Protest Songs, ALAN FINLAYSON 10. How (Not) to Understand Nature: Margaret Cavendish?s Response to the Rhetorical Situation of the Scientific Revolutions, SOPHIA HATZISAVVIDOU 11. Quentin Skinner?s Approach from a Sociolinguistic Perspective, SALI TAGLIAMONTE Contextual Analysis in the Digital Age 12. Computational Methods in Intellectual History, MIKKO TOLONEN and YANN RYAN 13. Contextual Analysis in the Computer Age: The Case of Hobbes, JACQUELINE BASU and ALISON MCQUEEN Response from Quentin Skinner 14. A Rejoinder, QUENTIN SKINNER.