Elegant and accessible, this book is a powerful and imaginative exploration of themes in the history of European ideas.
In this book, based on the Trevelyan Lectures of 2005, Anthony Grafton explains why so many of these works were written, why they attained so much insight - and why, in the centuries that followed, most scholars gradually forgot that they ...
Elegant and accessible, this book is a powerful and imaginative exploration of themes in the history of European ideas.
One of the world's leading cultural historians on writing about history in early modern Europe.
Grafton explains why so many of these works were written, why they attained so much insight – and why, in the centuries that followed, most scholars gradually forgot that they had existed.
Elegant and accessible, this book is a powerful and imaginative exploration of themes in the history of European ideas.