Inky Fingers The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe
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 l...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; Massachusetts ; London, England
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2020, ©2020
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 352 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-24567-9 9780674245655 9780674245662 |