For the Sake of Learning (2 Vols) - Essays in Honor of Anthony Grafton

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Assisted by: Ann Blair (Editor), Anja-Silvia Goeing (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.06.2016
• EAN: 9789004263307
• ISBN: 978-90-04-26330-7
• No. of pages: 1172
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 241 mm x 71 mm
• Weight: 2041 g
• Series: Scientific and Learned Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918