Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe
- ISBN-10
- 067423717X
- ISBN-13
- 9780674237179
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 392
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Author
- Anthony Grafton
Description
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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- 2022-04-05
- 392 pages
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- 2020-06-09
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