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Worlds made by words : scholarship and community in the modern West
- Title
- Worlds made by words : scholarship and community in the modern West / Anthony Grafton.
- Author
- Grafton, Anthony.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 422 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-416) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- A sketch map of a lost continent: the republic of letters -- A humanist crosses boundaries: Alberti on "historia" and "istoria" -- A contemplative scholar: Trithemius conjures the past -- The world in a room: Renaissance histories of art and nature -- Where was Salomon's house? Ecclesiastical history and the intellectual origins of Bacon's new Atlantis -- Chronology, controversy, and community in the republic of letters: the case of Kepler -- The universal language: splendors and sorrows of Latin in the modern world -- Entrepreneurs of the soul, impresarios of learning: the Jesuits -- In no man's land: Christian learning and the Jews -- The history of ideas: precept and practice, 1950-2000 and beyond -- The Messrs. Casaubon: Isaac Casaubon and Mark Pattison -- Momigliano's method and the Warburg Institute: studies in his middle period -- The public intellectual and the American university: Robert Morss Lovett -- The public intellectual and the private sphere: Arendt and Eichmann at the dinner table -- Codex in crisis: the book dematerializes -- Notes -- Sources -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-2555
- ISBN
- 9780674032576 (alk. paper)
- 0674032578 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008041248
- OCLC
- 256767520
- Author
- Grafton, Anthony.
- Title
- Worlds made by words : scholarship and community in the modern West / Anthony Grafton.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-416) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-2555