Книга: Anthony Grafton, Joanna Weinberg « "I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue" : Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship»
Fusing 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 his pedantic namesake in George Eliot's Middlemarch. But in this book, the real Casaubon emerges as a genuine literary hero, an intrepid explorer in the world of books. With a flair for storytelling reminiscent of Umberto Eco, Grafton and Weinberg follow Casaubon as he unearths the lost continent of Hebrew learning - and adds this ancient lore to the well-known Renaissance revival of Latin and Greek. The mystery begins with Mark Pattison's nineteenth-century biography of Casaubon. Here we encounter the Protestant Casaubon embroiled in intellectual quarrels with the Italian and Catholic orator Cesare Baronio. Setting out to understand the nature of this imbroglio, Grafton and Weinberg discover Casaubon's knowledge of Hebrew.... Издательство: "Belknap Press" (2010) Формат: 185x260, 396 стр.
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Anthony Grafton
Anthony Grafton (sometimes Anthony T. Grafton) (born
Grafton was educated at the
Work
Anthony Grafton is noted for his studies of the classical tradition from the
The best introduction to his preoccupation with the relations between scholarship and science in the
He also writes on a wide variety of topics for "
Works
Books
*"Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship", Oxford-Warburg Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983-1993).
*with Lisa Jardine, "From Humanism to the Humanities" (, 1986).
*"Forgers and Critics. Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990).
*"Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in the Age of Science, 1450-1800" (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991).
*"Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers" (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).
*"The Footnote: A Curious History" (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997).
*"Cardano's Cosmos : The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer" (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).
*"Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance" (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).
*"Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation" (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001).
*"What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
*with Megan Hale Williams, "Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea" (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).
*"Codex in Crisis" (New York: The Crumpled Press, 2008).
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Anthony Grafton, Joanna Weinberg | "I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue" : Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship | Fusing 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… — Belknap Press, (формат: 185x260, 396 стр.) Подробнее... | 2010 | 600.3 | бумажная книга |
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