Worlds made by words scholarship and community in the modern West

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Grafton, Anthony (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press 2009
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Acceso en línea:Sumario
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.