ISBN:
9780674245679
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (379 Seiten)
Ausgabe:
First printing
Erscheinungsjahr:
2020
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Grafton, Anthony, 1950 - Inky fingers
Schlagwort(e):
Early printed books
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Books History
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Humanists History
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Printers History
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HISTORY / Europe / General
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Europa
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Autor
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Veröffentlichung
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Buchherstellung
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Geschichte 1500-1800
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Mabillon, Jean 1632-1707
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Vergilius, Polydorus 1470-1555
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Parker, Matthew 1504-1575
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Pastorius, Franz Daniel 1651-1719
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Nanni, Giovanni 1432-1502
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Caius, John 1510-1573
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Spinoza, Benedictus de 1632-1677
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Buchdruck
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Gelehrsamkeit
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Geschichte 1500-1750
Kurzfassung:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. Making Book: The Way of the Humanists -- Chapter 1. Humanists with Inky Fingers -- Chapter 2. Philologists Wave Divining Rods -- Chapter 3. Jean Mabillon Invents Paleography -- Chapter 4. Polydore Vergil Uncovers the Jewish Origins of Christianity -- Chapter 5. Matthew Parker Makes an Archive -- Chapter 6. Francis Daniel Pastorius Makes a Notebook -- Chapter 7. Annius of Viterbo Studies the Jews -- Chapter 8. John Caius Argues about History -- Chapter 9. Baruch Spinoza Reads the Bible -- Conclusion. What the Ink Blots Reveal -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX
Kurzfassung:
Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tasks, they were artisans of script and print. Drawing new connections between text and craft, publishing and intellectual history, Grafton shows that the life of the mind depends on the work of the hands
Anmerkung:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
DOI:
10.4159/9780674245679
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