For the Sake of Learning
Essays in honor of Anthony Grafton
For the Sake of Learning
Essays in honor of Anthony Grafton
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In this tribute to Anthony Grafton, fifty-eight contributors present new research across the many areas in which Grafton has been active in the history of scholarship and learned culture.
“this is a succulent feast of erudition, to which every reader will wish to return time and again.” Luc Deitz, Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg / Universität Trier. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Winter 2017), pp. 1485-1488.
Ann Blair is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University, where she teaches in book history and the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Europe (with a focus on France and Northern Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries). She is the author of The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (Princeton UP, 1997) and Too Much To Know: managing scholarly information before the modern age (Yale UP, 2010). Anja-Silvia Goeing is anniversary fellow at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne and Privatdozent at the University of Zurich. She is currently preparing a book on practices of knowledge transfer at the Zurich lectorium in the sixteenth century. Her work includes studies on fifteenth-century biographies written about the Italian Humanist Vittorino da Feltre (1999; 2013).
“this is a succulent feast of erudition, to which every reader will wish to return time and again.” Luc Deitz, Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg / Universität Trier. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Winter 2017), pp. 1485-1488.
Ann Blair is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University, where she teaches in book history and the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Europe (with a focus on France and Northern Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries). She is the author of The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (Princeton UP, 1997) and Too Much To Know: managing scholarly information before the modern age (Yale UP, 2010). Anja-Silvia Goeing is anniversary fellow at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne and Privatdozent at the University of Zurich. She is currently preparing a book on practices of knowledge transfer at the Zurich lectorium in the sixteenth century. Her work includes studies on fifteenth-century biographies written about the Italian Humanist Vittorino da Feltre (1999; 2013).