Bring Out Your Dead

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.

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.

• 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