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      Anthony Grafton

      A revelatory new account of the magus - the learned magician - and his place in the intellectual, social and cultural world of Renaissance Europe

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      The Art of Discovery

      Maren Elisabeth Schwab, Anthony Grafton

      A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledge

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      Information

      An essential guide to the ways information has shaped and been shaped by societies.

      Thanks to recent advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information. How did information become…

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      Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading

      This collection presents the seminal 1990 article 'Studied for Action' by Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton alongside published and unpublished studies on Harvey to provide a unique lens on the…

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      Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading

      This collection presents the seminal 1990 article 'Studied for Action' by Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton alongside published and unpublished studies on Harvey to provide a unique lens on the…

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      Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers

      Anthony Grafton

      The style of reading in Renaissance Europe, as seen in the margins of books and in the texts of Renaissance intellectuals themselves, is deftly charted in this welcome volume from…

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      Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship

      Anthony Grafton

      This volume describes the later life of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), perhaps the most original scholar of the later Renaissance. It concentrates on his efforts to date the main events of…

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      Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship

      Anthony Grafton

      This volume describes the later life of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), perhaps the most original scholar of the later Renaissance. It concentrates on his efforts to date the main events of…

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      The Footnote: A Curious History

      Anthony Grafton

      In this engrossing account, footnotes to history give way to footnotes as history, recounting in their subtle way the curious story of the progress of knowledge in written form.

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      Magus

      Anthony Grafton

      Anthony Grafton explores the art and influence of an opaque historical figure: the magus, or learned magician. A distinctive intellectual type in Renaissance Europe, magi contributed to the humanistic currents…

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      Cardano’s Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer

      Anthony Grafton

      This book traces Cardano’s career from his first astrological pamphlet through his rise to high-level consulting and his autobiographical works. Grafton shows how Cardano and his contemporaries adapted the ancient…

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      Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation

      Anthony Grafton

      The work of the Renaissance humanists comes to life in this exploration of European letters from the 15th to the 19th century. Grafton defines the current state of the art…

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      Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West

      Anthony Grafton

      Grafton reveals the microdynamics of the scholarly life through a series of essays on institutions and on scholars ranging from early modern polymaths to modern intellectual historians to American thinkers…

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      Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800

      Anthony Grafton

      This book traces the relationship between humanism and science from the mid-fifteenth century to the beginning of the modern period and demonstrates that humanism was neither a simple nor an…

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      Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe

      Anthony Grafton

      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…

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      The Magus

      Anthony Grafton

      A revelatory new account of the magus and his place in the intellectual, social and cultural world of Renaissance Europe

      At the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High…

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      For the Sake of Learning: 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.

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      Inky Fingers

      Anthony Grafton

      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…

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      The West: A New History

      David A Bell,Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)

      Two outstanding historians rebuild the West at the center of the Western Civilizations course

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      The West: A New History

      David A Bell,Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)

      Two outstanding historians rebuild the West at the center of the Western Civilizations course

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      The West: A New History

      David A Bell,Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)

      Two outstanding historians rebuild the West at the center of the Western Civilizations course

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      What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe

      Anthony Grafton (Princeton University, New Jersey)

      This book is a powerful and imaginative exploration of themes in the history of European ideas. Elegant and accessible, it is a deliberate evocation of E. H. Carr’s celebrated Trevelyan…

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      Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing

      A re-examination of the social processes behind religious conversions in the Ancient and Early Middle Ages.

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      Henricus Glareanus’s (1488-1563) Chronologia of the Ancient World: A Facsimile Edition of a Heavily Annotated Copy Held in Princeton University Library

      Anthony Grafton,Urs Leu

      The Swiss scholar Henricus Glareanus devoted much of his life to studying and teaching Livy’s Roman History and devising chronological tables from it. He encouraged his students to copy his…

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      The Praise of Folly: Updated Edition

      Desiderius Erasmus

      Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work…

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      The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe

      Eight essays by major authors who attempt to find out who read, published, or advertised what, when, and where from the European Renaissance on.

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      Forgers and Critics, New Edition: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship

      Anthony Grafton

      The close links between forgery and criticism throughout history In Forgers and Critics, Anthony Grafton provides a wide-ranging exploration of the links between forgery and scholarship. Labeling forgery the criminal…

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      Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea

      Anthony Grafton,Megan Williams

      This book uses broad synthesis and close textual analysis to reconstruct the kinds of books and the ways of organizing scholarly inquiry and collaboration among the Christians of Caesarea in…

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      I have always loved the Holy Tongue: Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship

      Anthony Grafton,Joanna Weinberg

      Fusing high scholarship with high drama, Grafton and Weinberg uncover a secret and extraordinary aspect of legendary Renaissance scholar Isaac Casaubon’s already celebrated achievement.

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      Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age

      Roy Rosenzweig

      In these pathbreaking essays, Roy Rosenzweig charts the impact of new media on teaching, researching, preserving, presenting, and understanding history.

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      Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age

      Roy Rosenzweig

      In these pathbreaking essays, Roy Rosenzweig charts the impact of new media on teaching, researching, preserving, presenting, and understanding history.

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      The Prince

      Niccolo Machiavelli

      Today The Prince is still seen as the Bible of realpolitik, read by strategists, businessmen and political animals everywhere as the ultimate guide to gaining and maintaining power in a…

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      Origenes Tragicos de la Erudicion

      Professor of History Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)

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      Faussaires Et Critiq

      Professor of History Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)

      Anthony Grafton nous invite a un parcours aussi original qu'attrayant a travers l'histoire des grands faussaires et de leurs oeuvres . d'Erasme a Macpherson, de Thomas Chatterton a Giovanni Nanni…

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      Prolegomena to Homer, 1795

      Friedrich August Wolf

      The subjects Wolf addressed have dominated Homeric scholarship for almost two centuries. Especially important were his analyses of the history of writing and of the nature of Alexandrian scholarship and…

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      Prolegomena to Homer, 1795

      Friedrich August Wolf

      The subjects Wolf addressed have dominated Homeric scholarship for almost two centuries. Especially important were his analyses of the history of writing and of the nature of Alexandrian scholarship and…

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      The Art of Discovery: Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe

      Maren Elisabeth Schwab,Anthony Grafton

      A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledge

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      Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices: A Global Comparative Approach

      This book presents a major collection of essays that expand our vision of the history of textual practices. It explores the multiple ways across time and cultures in which texts…

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      Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices: A Global Comparative Approach

      This book presents a major collection of essays that expand our vision of the history of textual practices. It explores the multiple ways across time and cultures in which texts…

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      Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period

      Mary Elizabeth Berry

      Considers the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s. This book provides an account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into…

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      The West: A New History

      David A. Bell (Princeton University),Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)

      Two outstanding historians rebuild the West at the center of the Western Civilizations course

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      The West: A New History

      David A. Bell (Princeton University),Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)

      Two outstanding historians rebuild the West at the centre of the Western Civilizations course.

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      The West: A New History

      David A. Bell (Princeton University),Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)

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      The West: A New History

      David A. Bell (Princeton University),Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)

      Two outstanding historians rebuild the West at the centre of the Western Civilizations course.

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      Ausgewahlte Schriften zur Geschichte und Geschichtsschreibung: Band 1: Die Alte Welt

      WILFRIED NIPPEL,Arnaldo Momigliano,Anthony Grafton

      Band 1 der dreibandigen Ausgewahlten Schriften gibt in 15 Aufsatzen einen reprasentativen Querschnitt durch Momiglianos Arbeiten zur antiken Historiographie, zu den Anfangen Roms, zur Spatantike und zu den Wechselbeziehungen zwischen…

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      Ausgewahlte Schriften zur Geschichte und Geschichtsschreibung: Band 2: Spatantike bis Spataufklarung

      Nippel Wilfried,Arnaldo Momigliano,Anthony Grafton

      Die Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Antike und des Humanismus bis zur Moderne war ein von Momigliano massgeblich gestaltetes Feld. Dieser Band gibt mit zwoelf Aufsatzen aus den Jahren 1947 - 1977 einen…

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      New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery

      Anthony Grafton,Nancy Siraisi

      Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old…

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