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

English · Hardback

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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.

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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

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