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

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

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Author / Creator:	Grafton, Anthony, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. ©2020
Description:	379 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Early printed books. Books -- History. Humanists -- Europe -- History. Printers -- Europe -- History. Books. Early printed books. Humanists. Printers. Europe. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12387355

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ISBN:	9780674237179 067423717X
Provenance:	Copy 1. Binding: Includes dust-jacket.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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."--

Table of Contents:

Introduction Making Book: The Way of the Humanists
Chapter 1. Humanists with Inky Fingers
Chapter 2. Philologists Wave Divining Rods
Chapter 3. Jean Mabillon Invents Paleography
Chapter 4. Polydore Vergil Uncovers the Jewish Origins of Christianity
Chapter 5. Matthew Parker Makes an Archive
Chapter 6. Francis Daniel Pastorius Makes a Notebook
Chapter 7. Arrnius of Viterbo Studies the Jews
Chapter 8. John Caius Argues about History
Chapter 9. Baruch Spinoza Reads the Bible
Conclusion What the Ink Blots Reveal
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index