Anthony Grafton Bücher

Selten ging es in früheren Jahrhunderten um die Aberkennung von wissenschaftlichen Titeln, wenn sich die Frage nach der Echtheit eines Textes stellte. Vielmehr scheinen Fälscher und deren Kritiker eine Art intellektuelles Versteckspiel getrieben zu haben ... Anthony Grafton hat eine höchst unterhaltsame Geschichte der Fälscher und ihrer Entlarver geschrieben. Anhand von Texten aus dem vierten vorchristlichen Jahrhundert bis zur Neuzeit untersucht er das Wie und Warum von Fälschungen. Denn so wie die Motive einer Fälschung Karriere, Geldgier, Sucht nach wissenschaftlicher Anerkennung die Wahl der Mittel bestimmen, so bestimmen auch den Kritiker ähnliche Motive er will ebenfalls Anerkennung, Geld, Karriere. Und trotzdem dienen beide den höheren Zielen der Wissenschaft. Der Entlarver ist ohne den Fälscher nicht denkbar, und je raffinierter der Fälscher vorgeht, umso mehr muss der Kritiker sein Instrumentarium verfeinern. Eine Studie über die historische Plagiatskunst.

Elegant and accessible, this book is a powerful and imaginative exploration of themes in the history of European ideas.

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.

"Anthony Grafton explores the art and influence of an opaque historical figure: the magus, or learned magician. A distinctive intellectual type in Renaissance Europe, magi contributed to the humanistic currents of the time and had a transformative impact on public life, influencing advances in sculpture, painting, engineering, and other fields."--

The author of The Footnote reflects on scribes, scholars, and the work of publishing during the golden age of the book.From Francis Bacon to Barack Obama, thinkers and political leaders have denounced humanists as obsessively bookish and allergic to labor. In this celebration of bookmaking in all its messy and intricate detail, renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as diligent workers. Meticulously illuminating the physical and mental labors that fostered the golden age of the book--the compiling of notebooks, copying and correction of texts and proofs, preparation of copy--he shows us how the exertions of scholars shaped influential books, treatises, and forgeries.Inky Fingers ranges widely, tracing the transformation of humanistic approaches to texts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and examining the simultaneously sustaining and constraining effects of theological polemics on sixteenth-century scholars. Grafton draws new connections between humanistic traditions and intellectual innovations, textual learning and craft knowledge, manuscript and print.Above all, Grafton makes clear that the nitty-gritty of bookmaking has had a profound impact on the history of ideas--that the life of the mind depends on the work of the hands.

In this compact study of the Renaissance and Reformation, Eugene F. Rice, Jr. draws together the main lines of change that account for a period of rapid transition from medieval civilization to early modern. From a chapter on science, technology, and the voyages of exploration, Professor Rice goes on to examine economic expansion within Europe, Renaissance society and the new humanist culture, the rise of the sovereign state, and, ultimately, the clash between the established Church and the Protestant reformers.