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For the Sake of Learning (2 vols) : Essays in Honor of Anthony Grafton.
In this tribute to Anthony Grafton, a preeminent historian of early modern European intellectual and textual culture and of classical scholarship, fifty-eight contributors present new research across the many areas in which Grafton has been active. The articles span topics from late antiquity to the...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2016.
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| Series: | History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions.
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Table of Contents:
- For the Sake of Learning: Essays in Honor of Anthony Grafton; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Editors' Preface; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Anthony Grafton: A Short Biography to 2015; Anthony Grafton: A Bibliography to 2015; Part 1: Scaliger and Casaubon; 1: Confidentiality and Publicity in Early Modern Epistolography: Scaliger and Casaubon; 2: Religion and Politics in the Composition and Reception of Baronius's Annales Ecclesiastici: A New Letter from Paolo Sarpi to Isaac Casaubon.
- 3: Chronology and Hebraism in the World of Joseph Scaliger: The Case of Arnaud de Pontac (Arnaldus Pontacus)4: Joseph Scaliger in England; 5: What Does an Oriental Scholar Look Like? Some Portraits of Joseph Scaliger and Other Sixteenth-century Oriental Scholars: A Selection; 6: Joseph Scaliger's Treatise De apocryphis Bibliorum (ca. 1591); Part 2: Knowledge Communities; 7: Streetwalking and the Sources of Citizen Culture; 8: Baudouin Ronsse as Writer of Medical Letters; 9: Performing Humanism: The Andreini Family and the Republic of Letters in Counter-Reformation Italy.
- 10: A Spanner and His Works: Books, Letters, and Scholarly Communication Networks in Early Modern Europe11: Managing Cardinals' Households for Dummies; 12: Francis Bacon and the Late Renaissance Politics of Learning; Part 3: Scholarship and Religion; 13: Pomponio Leto's Life of Muhammad; 14: Erasmus, Luther, and the Margins of Biblical Misunderstanding; 15: When Manuscripts Meet: Editing the Bible in Greek during and after the Council of Trent; 16: Theology and the Conditions of Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century: The Case of Discernment of Spirits.
- 17: John Selden in Germany: Religion and Natural Law from Boecler to Buddeus (1665-1695)18: "Crouch for Employment": Unleashing the Animal Kingdom in the Popish Plot; 19: Lutheran Islamophiles in Eighteenth-century Germany; 20: The Sacrificing King: Ancients, Moderns, and the Politics of Religion; Part 4: Cultures of Collecting; 21: Privatbibliotheken antiker Christen; 22: An Imagined Library in the Italian Renaissance: The Presence of Greek in Angelo Decembrio's De politia literaria; 23: A New World of Books: Hernando Colón and the Biblioteca Colombina.
- 24: The Rediscovered Third Volume of Conrad Gessner's "Historia plantarum"25: Suchen und Finden vor Google: Zur Metadatenproduktion im 16. Jahrhundert; 26: The Vatican Library Alphabets, Luca Orfei, and Graphic Media in Sistine Rome; 27: On the Production and Dissemination of a Hebrew Best Seller: Pinḥas Hurwitz and His Mystical-scientific Encyclopedia, Sefer Ha-Brit; 28: For the Birds: Collecting, Art, and Natural History in Saxony; For the Sake of Learning: Essays in Honor of Anthony Grafton; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Part 5: Learned Practices; 29: Visualisierungen mittels Tabellen.