Bring Out Your Dead

The Past as Revelation

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

The work of the Renaissance humanists comes to life in Anthony Grafton’s exploration of the primary sources and modern scholarship, classical and modern elements in the world of European letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.Tracing the ties that bound the world of humanistic learning in early modern Europe to other social and cultural spheres, Grafton defines the current state of the art of scholarship on early modern European cultural and intellectual history while simultaneously demonstrating how entertaining, enlightening, and relevant that history can be.Covering a dazzling variety of topics and authors as different as Alberti and Descartes, Grafton maps the grand and meticulous efforts of the past to connect the realm of nature with that of books, the realm of everyday experience with that of passionate reading in massive tomes, and the realm of codes of etiquette and institutions with that of extravagant and joyous erudition—efforts that this book itself brilliantly carries on.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-10-25
Mått:156 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:Harvard University Press
ISBN:9780674015975
Utmärkelser:Nominated for Pulitzer Prizes 2003

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Anthony Grafton is the author of The Footnote, Defenders of the Text, Forgers and Critics, and Inky Fingers, among other books. The Henry Putnam University Professor of History and the Humanities at Princeton University, Emeritus, he writes regularly for the London Review of Books.

Recensioner i media

Bring Out Your Dead is the latest collection of essays by Anthony Grafton, our most prolific and engaging scholar of early modern European thought. Here are reflections on humanism, the ancient city, the critical reception of the celebrated 'Dinner at Trimalchio' section of Petronius's Satyricon, the editing and publication of classical texts, Vico's New Science (which influenced Joyce) and much else. Many of these pieces were originally reviews or introductions, but to read even the most casual of Grafton's lucubrations is deeply rewarding: a civilized mind meditating on the nature of scholarship and learning in the West.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Introduction I. Histories and Traditions 1. Panofsky, Alberti, and the Ancient World 2. The Ancient City Restored: Archaeology, Ecclesiastical History, and Egyptology 3. The Hand and the Soul 4. The Rest versus the West II. Humanism and Science 5. The New Science and the Traditions of Humanism 6. Civic Humanism and Scientific Scholarship at Leiden III. Communities of Learning 7. Printers' Correctors and the Publication of Classical Texts 8. Those Humanists! 9. The World of the Polyhistors: Humanism and Encyclopedism 10. Jean Hardouin: The Antiquary as Pariah 11. Petronius and Neo-Latin Satire: The Reception of the Cena Trimalchionis IV. Profiles 12. Portrait of Justus Lipsius 13. Descartes the Dreamer 14. An Introduction to the New Science of Giambattista Vico 15. Jacob Bernays, Joseph Scaliger, and Others Notes Sources Index