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Pages: 438
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-26 - Publisher: BRILL

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In Episodes, Ian Maclean investigates the ways in which the book trade operated through book fairs, and interacted with academic institutions, journals and inte
The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy
Language: en
Pages: 561
Authors: David A. Lines
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-01-10 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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A longstanding tradition holds that universities in early modern Italy suffered from cultural sclerosis and long-term decline. Drawing on rich archival sources,
The Worlds of Knowledge and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Age
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Pages: 456
Authors: Dmitri Levitin
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-22 - Publisher: BRILL

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This volume is the first to adopt systematically a comparative approach to the role of ancient texts and traditions in early modern scholarship, science, medici
Book Trade Catalogues in Early Modern Europe
Language: en
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Authors: Arthur der Weduwen
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This edited collection offers in seventeen chapters the latest scholarship on book catalogues in early modern Europe. Contributors discuss the role that these c
Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe
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This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern period. It investigates th