Worlds made by words : scholarship and community in the modern West /
Grafton, Anthony.
Worlds made by words : scholarship and community in the modern West / Anthony Grafton. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009. - viii, 422 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-416) and index.
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.
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2008041248
GBA906399 bnb
014883772 Uk
Learning and scholarship--History.--Europe, Western
Learning and scholarship--History.--United States
Europe--Civilization.
Europe--Intellectual life.
CB245 / .G65 2009
940.1
Worlds made by words : scholarship and community in the modern West / Anthony Grafton. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009. - viii, 422 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-416) and index.
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.
9780674032576 (alk. paper) 0674032578 (alk. paper)
2008041248
GBA906399 bnb
014883772 Uk
Learning and scholarship--History.--Europe, Western
Learning and scholarship--History.--United States
Europe--Civilization.
Europe--Intellectual life.
CB245 / .G65 2009
940.1