TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grafton,Anthony
TI  - Worlds made by words: scholarship and community in the modern West 
SN  - 9780674032576 (alk. paper)
AV  - CB245 .G65 2009
U1  - 940.1 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Learning and scholarship
KW  - Europe, Western
KW  - History
KW  - United States
KW  - Europe
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0828/2008041248.html
ER  -