Inky fingers
the making of books in Early Modern Europe
- ISBN: 9780674271210
- Editorial: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2022
- Lugar de la edición: New Haven. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 392
- Idiomas: Inglés
In this celebration of bookmaking in all its messy and intricate detail, Anthony Grafton captures both the physical and mental labors that went into the golden age of the book-compiling notebooks, copying and correcting proofs, preparing copy-and shows us how scribes and scholars shaped influential treatises and forgeries.
Inky Fingers ranges widely, from the theological polemics of the early days of printing to the pathbreaking works of Jean Mabillon and Baruch Spinoza. Grafton draws new connections between humanistic traditions and intellectual innovations, textual learning and the delicate, arduous, error-riddled craft of making books. Through it all, he reminds us that the life of the mind depends on the work of the hands, and the nitty gritty labor of printmakers has had a profound impact on the history of ideas.
1. Humanists with Inky Fingers
2. Philologists Wave Divining Rods
3. Jean Mabillon Invents Paleography
4. Polydore Vergil Uncovers the Jewish Origins of Christianity
5. Matthew Parker Makes an Archive
6. Francis Daniel Pastorius Makes a Notebook
7. Annius of Viterbo Studies the Jews
8. John Caius Argues about History
9. Baruch Spinoza Reads the Bible
Conclusion: What the Ink Blots Reveal
