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Inky fingers : the making of books in early modern Europe / Anthony Grafton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020Description: 379 pages : illustrationsISBN:
  • 9780674271210
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 094.2 GRA
Contents:
Making book: the way of the humanists -- Humanists with inky finger -- Philologists wave divining rods -- Jean Mabillon invents paleography -- Polydore Vergin uncovers the Jewish origins of Christianity -- Matthew Parker makes an archive -- Francis Daniel Pastorius makes a notebook -- Annius of Viterbo studies the Jews -- John Caius argues about history -- Baruch Spinoza reads the Bible -- Conclusion: What the ink blots reveal.
Summary: "Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tasks, they were artisans of script and print. Drawing new connections between text and craft, publishing and intellectual history, Grafton shows that the life of the mind depends on the work of the hands"--
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Book Book Institute of English General Stacks Institute of English 094.2 GRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available ENG15902

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-365) and index.

Making book: the way of the humanists -- Humanists with inky finger -- Philologists wave divining rods -- Jean Mabillon invents paleography -- Polydore Vergin uncovers the Jewish origins of Christianity -- Matthew Parker makes an archive -- Francis Daniel Pastorius makes a notebook -- Annius of Viterbo studies the Jews -- John Caius argues about history -- Baruch Spinoza reads the Bible -- Conclusion: What the ink blots reveal.

"Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tasks, they were artisans of script and print. Drawing new connections between text and craft, publishing and intellectual history, Grafton shows that the life of the mind depends on the work of the hands"--

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