The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe Anthony Grafton. f = T--- %% o Early Modern Europe * A N T H O N Y G R A F T O N Inky Fingers.
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.
This book traces the relationship between humanism and science from the mid-fifteenth century to the beginning of the modern period and demonstrates that humanism was neither a simple nor an impractical enterprise, but worked hand-in-hand ...
Herbert Hunger, Lexikon der griechi- schen und rbmiscben Mythologie, mit Hinweisen auf das Fortwirken antker Stoffe und Motive in der bildenden Kunst, Literatur und Musik des Abendlandes bis zur Gegenwart, 8th rev. ed.
One of the world's leading cultural historians on writing about history in early modern Europe.
Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided ...
The book also considers the well-established topics of realism and arthouse auteurism, and re-thinks film history by investigating the presence of melodrama in neorealism and post-war modernism.
Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at ...
This is the first modern study of the production and circulation of manuscripts during the English Renaissance.
In What Painting Is, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history.