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New Worlds, Ancient Texts
Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, …
Formations of Belief
For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in …
Information
A landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuriesThanks to modern technological advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited …
From Humanism to the Humanities
Worlds Made by Words
In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to win independence of mind, they …
Erasmus on Literature
None of the works included among Erasmus' 'Literary and Educational Writings' in the Collected Works of Erasmus captures his most adventurous thinking about how texts signify in - …
Joseph Scaliger: I: Textual Criticism and Exegesis
This volume is the first half of an intellectual biography of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), the greatest classical scholar of his time. Anthony Grafton describes Scaliger's early …
Joseph Scaliger: II: Historical Chronology
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries technical chronology, the study of calendars and of dates in ancient and medieval history, was both a fashionable and a controversial …
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Natural Particulars
This volume examines the transformation in ways of studying naturethat took place in Western Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenthcenturies.This volume examines the …
Defenders of the Text
Anthony Grafton is erudite and elegant in the style of the best historical writers who make the past come alive for the reader. In a full-scale presentation of the world of …
Ausgewählte Schriften zur Geschichte und Geschichtsschreibung
Die Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Antike und des Humanismus bis zur Moderne war ein von Momigliano maßgeblich gestaltetes Feld. Dieser Band gibt mit zwölf Aufsätzen aus den Jahren …