Anthony Grafton
Författare till The Footnote: A Curious History
Om författaren
Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University.
Foto taget av: Prof. Anthony Thomas Grafton. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2000 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Serier
Verk av Anthony Grafton
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea (2006) 154 exemplar
Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer (1999) — Författare — 103 exemplar
Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800 (1991) 100 exemplar
"I have always loved the Holy Tongue": Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship (2011) 47 exemplar
Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures) (1997) 41 exemplar
Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. Volume I: Textual Criticism and Exegesis… (1983) 19 exemplar
Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of… (1999) 17 exemplar
How to Build a Life in the Humanities: Meditations on the Academic Work-Life Balance (2015) 14 exemplar
Magic and Technology in Early Modern Europe- Dibner Library Lecture 15 October, 2002 (2002) 13 exemplar
Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. Volume II: Historical Chronology (Oxford-Warburg… (1993) 12 exemplar
The Uses of Greek and Latin: Historical Essays (Warburg Institute surveys and texts) (1988) — Redaktör — 2 exemplar
Kalpazanlar ve elestirmenler. Bati tarihçiliginde yaraticilik ve sahtekârlik. Translated by Emre Yalçin. (1998) 1 exemplar
The Thirty Years War 1 exemplar
Sleuths and analysts 1 exemplar
New Science 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and… (2001) — Redaktör — 56 exemplar
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
Heinrich Glarean's Books The Intellectual World of a Sixteenth-Century Musical Humanist (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
Scriptural authority and biblical criticism in the Dutch golden age : God's word questioned (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Vedertaget namn
- Grafton, Anthony
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Grafton, Anthony Thomas
- Andra namn
- Grafton, Anthony T.
- Födelsedag
- 1950-05-21
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Princeton, NJ
- Utbildning
- University of Chicago (BA | 1972)
University of Chicago (MA | 1972)
University of Chicago (PhD | 1975) - Yrken
- Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University
President, American Historical Association - Relationer
- Erlich, Louise (wife)
- Organisationer
- Phi Beta Kappa (1970)
Renaissance Society of America
American Philosophical Society (1993) - Priser och utmärkelser
- Balzan Prize (2002)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)
Fellow, British Academy (1997)
Rome Prize
Pour le Mérite
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (1993)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 58
- Även av
- 22
- Medlemmar
- 2,927
- Popularitet
- #8,755
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 21
- ISBN
- 123
- Språk
- 7
- Favoritmärkt
- 8
Part of the issue is that this is some seriously dense prose. It cannot be read quickly. Adding to that challenge is the fact that the writer doesn't do a lot of signalling of the point or central idea he's trying to convey in different sections. I needed more help from him to follow his thinking, and I didn't get it. Detail after detail after detail is related, and I found myself hard-pressed ro understand the purpose of all these specifics.
If you have a background in this field of study, you may find this a remarkably enlightening book. If you're coming to the field with little or no experience, it's apt to wash over you without leaving much behind.
I received a free electronic review copy of this title from the publisher via NetGalley; the opinions are my own.… (mer)