Worlds made by words: scholarship and community in the modern West

Abstract

* Acknowledgments * Introduction * A Sketch Map of a Lost Continent: The Republic of Letters * A Humanist Crosses Boundaries: Alberti on Historia and Istoria * A Contemplative Scholar: Trithemius Conjures the Past * The World in a Room: Renaissance Histories of Art and Nature * Where Was Salomon's House? Ecclesiastical History and the Intellectual Origins of Bacon's New Atlantis * Chronology, Controversy, and Community in the Republic of Letters: The Case of Kepler * The Universal Language: Splendors and Sorrows of Latin in the Modern World * Entrepreneurs of the Soul, Impresarios of Learning: The Jesuits * In No Man's Land: Christian Learning and the Jews * The History of Ideas: Precept and Practice, 1950--2000 and Beyond * The Messrs. Casaubon: Isaac Casaubon and Mark Pattison * Momigliano's Method and the Warburg Institute: Studies in His Middle Period * The Public Intellectual and the American University: Robert Morss Lovett * The Public Intellectual and the Private Sphere: Arendt and Eichmann at the Dinner Table * Codex in Crisis * Notes * Sources * Index

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