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Magus
The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
Häftad, 2025
137 kr
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A revelatory account of the magus - the learned magician - and his place in the world of Renaissance EuropeAt the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive, strange and beguiling figure: the magus. An unstable mix of scientist, bibliophile, engineer, fabulist …
Classical Tradition
Av Anthony Grafton, Glenn Warren Most m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
829 kr
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“A vast cabinet of curiosities.”—Stephen Greenblatt“Eclectic rather than exhaustive, less an encyclopedia than a buffet.”—Frederic Raphael, Literary ReviewHow do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus’s sirens to those of an ambulance? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome is all …
What Was History?
The Art of History in Early Modern Europe
Häftad, 2012
330 kr
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From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works grew from complex early modern debates about law, religion and classical scholarship. Anthony Grafton's book is based on his Trevelyan Lectures of …
Inky Fingers
The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe
Häftad, 2022
217 kr
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An Open Letters Review Best Book of the Year“Grafton presents largely unfamiliar material…in a clear, even breezy style…Erudite.”—Michael Dirda, Washington PostIn this celebration of bookmaking in all its messy and intricate detail, Anthony Grafton captures both the physical and mental labors that …
West
A New History
Av David A. Bell, Anthony Grafton
2018
1289 kr
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This beautifully written history recentres the West and rekindles the past in a vivid narrative crafted for beginning students. Grafton and Bell tell the epic story of a West engaged in a continuing search for order across politics, society and culture, driven by internal tensions and global …
Printing and Misprinting
A Companion to Mistakes and In-House Corrections in Renaissance Europe (1450-1650)
Av Paolo Sachet, Anthony Grafton m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
1624 kr
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''To err is human''. As a material and mechanical process, early printing made no exception to this general rule. Against the conventional wisdom of a technological triumph spreading freedom and knowledge, the history of the book is largely a story of errors and adjustments. Various mistakes …
Printing and Misprinting
A Companion to Mistakes and In-House Corrections in Renaissance Europe (1450-1650)
Av Paolo Sachet, Anthony Grafton m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
1624 kr
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''To err is human''. As a material and mechanical process, early printing made no exception to this general rule. Against the conventional wisdom of a technological triumph spreading freedom and knowledge, the history of the book is largely a story of errors and adjustments. Various mistakes …
Joseph Scaliger: I: Textual Criticism and Exegesis
Inbunden, 1983
4735 kr
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This volume is the first half of an intellectual biography of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), the greatest classical scholar of his time. Anthony Grafton describes Scaliger's early work as an editor of and commentator on classical texts, setting this into the wider context of classical scholarship in …
Printing and Misprinting
A Companion to Mistakes and In-House Corrections in Renaissance Europe (1450-1650)
Av Geri Della Rocca de Candal, Geri Della Rocca de Candal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2344 kr
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'To err is human'. As a material and mechanical process, early printing made no exception to this general rule. Against the conventional wisdom of a technological triumph spreading freedom and knowledge, the history of the book is largely a story of errors and adjustments. Various mistakes normally …
Joseph Scaliger: II: Historical Chronology
Inbunden, 1993
6235 kr
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During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries technical chronology, the study of calendars and of dates in ancient and medieval history, was both a fashionable and a controversial discipline. Theologians debated the dates of the Creation, the Flood, and the Crucifixion. Astronomers and historians …
Magus
The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
Ljudbok, 2024
184 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin. At the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive, strange and beguiling figure: the magus. An unstable mix of scientist, bibliophile, engineer, fabulist and fraud, the magus ushered in modern physics and chemistry while also working on …
West
A New History
Av David A. Bell, Anthony Grafton
2018
1911 kr
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This beautifully written history recentres the West and rekindles the past in a vivid narrative crafted for beginning students. Grafton and Bell tell the epic story of a West engaged in a continuing search for order across politics, society and culture, driven by internal tensions and global …
West
A New History
Av David A. Bell, Anthony Grafton
2018
1911 kr
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This beautifully written history recentres the West and rekindles the past in a vivid narrative crafted for beginning students. Grafton and Bell tell the epic story of a West engaged in a continuing search for order across politics, society and culture, driven by internal tensions and global …
Cardano’s Cosmos
The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer
Häftad, 2001
322 kr
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Girolamo Cardano was an Italian doctor, natural philosopher, and mathematician who became a best-selling author in Renaissance Europe. He was also a leading astrologer of his day, whose predictions won him access to some of the most powerful people in sixteenth-century Europe. In Cardano’s Cosmos, …
Bring Out Your Dead
The Past as Revelation
Häftad, 2004
287 kr
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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 …
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book
Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea
Av Anthony Grafton, Megan Williams
Häftad, 2008
279 kr
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When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and Eusebius, two scholars of late Roman Caesarea, …
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book
Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea
Av Megan Williams, Anthony Grafton
E-bok, 2009
563 kr
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When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and Eusebius, two scholars of late Roman Caesarea, …
“I have always loved the Holy Tongue”
Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship
Av Anthony Grafton, Joanna Weinberg
Inbunden, 2011
417 kr
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“[An] extraordinary book.” —New RepublicFusing high scholarship with high drama, Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg uncover a secret and extraordinary aspect of a legendary Renaissance scholar’s already celebrated achievement. The French Protestant Isaac Casaubon (1559–1614) is known to us through …
Worlds Made by Words
Scholarship and Community in the Modern West
Häftad, 2011
321 kr
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In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to win independence of mind, they also enjoy the conviviality of sharing a project sustained by common ideals, practices, and institutions. It’s like …
Defenders of the Text
The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450–1800
Häftad, 1994
355 kr
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Anthony Grafton is erudite and elegant in the style of the best historical writers who make the past come alive for the reader. In a full-scale presentation of the world of scholarship, from the Renaissance to the modern period, Grafton sets before us in three-dimensional detail such seminal …
New Worlds, Ancient Texts
The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery
Häftad, 1995
410 kr
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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, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield. What Anthony Grafton recounts is …
Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe
E-bok, 2010
493 kr
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The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe focuses on the ways in which culture is moved from one generation or group to another, not by exact replication but by accretion or revision. The contributors to the volume each consider how the passing of historical information is an organic …
Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe
Häftad, 1998
401 kr
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The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe focuses on the ways in which culture is moved from one generation or group to another, not by exact replication but by accretion or revision. The contributors to the volume each consider how the passing of historical information is an organic …
Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices
A Global Comparative Approach
Av Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most
Inbunden, 2016
2492 kr
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In this collection of richly documented case studies, experts in many textual traditions examine the ways in which important texts were preserved, explicated, corrected, and used for a variety of purposes. The authors describe the multiple ways in which scholars in different cultures have addressed …
Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices
A Global Comparative Approach
Av Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most
Häftad, 2020
767 kr
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In this collection of richly documented case studies, experts in many textual traditions examine the ways in which important texts were preserved, explicated, corrected, and used for a variety of purposes. The authors describe the multiple ways in which scholars in different cultures have addressed …
How to Build a Life in the Humanities
Meditations on the Academic Work-Life Balance
Av Anthony Grafton, Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
287 kr
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A follow-up to the popular Graduate Study for the 21st Century , this book seeks to expand professional development to include the personal aspects of daily lives in the humanities. How to Build a Life in the Humanities delves into pressing work-life issues such as post-tenure depression, academic …
How to Build a Life in the Humanities
Meditations on the Academic Work-Life Balance
Av Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr, Anthony Grafton m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
410 kr
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A follow-up to the popular Graduate Study for the 21st Century , this book seeks to expand professional development to include the personal aspects of daily lives in the humanities. How to Build a Life in the Humanities delves into pressing work-life issues such as post-tenure depression, academic …
How to Build a Life in the Humanities
Meditations on the Academic Work-Life Balance
Av Anthony Grafton, Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
566 kr
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A follow-up to the popular Graduate Study for the 21st Century , this book seeks to expand professional development to include the personal aspects of daily lives in the humanities. How to Build a Life in the Humanities delves into pressing work-life issues such as post-tenure depression, academic …
