The Footnote: A Curious History, Paperback - Anthony Grafton

Contributor(s): Author: Anthony GraftonThe weapon of pedants, the scourge of undergraduates, the b te noire of the "new" liberated scholar: the low...

From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering wor...

A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and their patient zeros), plus chapters on the scie...

Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tas...

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The author of The Footnote reflects on scribes, scholars, and the work of publishing during the golden age of the book.From Francis Bacon to Barack...

Reducere. Girolamo Cardano was an Italian doctor, natural philosopher, and mathematician who became a best-selling author in Renaissance Europe. He was also ...

The style of reading in Renaissance Europe, as seen in the margins of books and in the texts of Renaissance intellectuals themselves, is deftly cha...

Reducere. In 1779 a Philadelphia belle, Margaret Shippen, married a hero of the ongoing Revolution, General Benedict Arnold. Within months Peggy was sending ...

DescriptionThe close links between forgery and criticism throughout historyIn Forgers and Critics, Anthony Grafton provides a wide-ranging explorat...

Reducere. Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. According to ancient sources, she achieved her suc...

DescriptionIn this concise, accessible guide, author Christopher Catherwood takes his readers through the history of the faith, educating them abou...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Anthony A. BarrettIllustration(s): 51 b/w illus. 1 table. 1 map.Number of pages: 368Collection: Tur...

Reducere. If the dead could talk, what would they say? According to mediums during the height of Spiritualism, a lot.In the late nineteenth and early twentie...

Reducere. On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded during a labor demonstration near Haymarket Square. The ensuing gunfire and chaos brought a grisly end to what bega...

DUNCAN HARLEY takes the reader on a grand tour of the curious and the bizarre, the strange and the unusual from Aberdeenshire's past. Read about th...

In this engaging book, Wendy Hughes takes you on a grand tour of the curious and bizarre, the strange and the unusual from Sussex's past. Read abou...

Writer-in-residence Penelope Parish will need to use every trick in her quaint British bookshop to unravel a murderous plot that threatens to ruin ...

Reducere. Runaway. Castaway. Prostitute. Hermit. Desert dweller. Saint. Boundary breaker. Archetypal wild woman. In the corner of a library, in a dusty stack...

Reducere. Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome's Great Fire--and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman Empire Accord...

Reducere. Charlotte has entered a golden age of craft brewing, and while this fermented frenzy may feel altogether new, it evokes a forgotten heritage that d...

Publisher: Footnote Press LtdAuthor(s): Lars HornNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 136 x 215 x 26Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Reducere. DescriptionEccentric Finger Lakes is an armchair travel guide of sorts to the odd, the offbeat, the hidden and mysterious, and the just plain unexp...

Reducere. DescriptionThe origins of Colorado place names offer insightful glimpses into the state's formative years. Emanuel Saltiel named his new community ...

Explore the fascinating history of Northampton in this fully illustrated A-Z tour of the town's people and places.

Reducere. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published The History of Spiritualism in 1926, offering a thorough account of the movement which began in 1848 with the Fox ...

DescriptionSicily grows the world's finest fruit Discover the orange and the thousands of tales told of it--the curiosities, techniques, traditions...

An A to Z of quirky facts and stories about Limerick countyIllustrations: 50 Illustrations, black and white

For the last two centuries, nationalism has been a central feature of society and politics. Few ideologies can match its power and resonance, and n...

Their nickname was the Bloody First, given to them in recognition of their courageous conduct and supreme sacrifice in battle. In the midst of the ...

Hanna Flint speaks from the heart in Strong Female Character, a personal and incisive reflection on how cinema has been the key to understanding he...

Reducere. In 1765, Dr. James Baker of Dorchester stumbled upon Irishman John Hannon crying on the banks of the mighty Neponset River. Hannon, though penniles...

Reducere. Having become 'locked down' to within a few miles of his Sheffield home, the author Peter Machan spent a solitary year exploring the nearby Loxley ...

This book is a guide to over 130 remarkable sights in the heart of the West CountryPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Derrick WarrenNumber ...

Reducere. From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world.A Place for Everything is the first-ever history ...

SPQR stands for Senatus Populusque Romanus, a miscellany of facts all about ancient Rome and the Roman world. A browseable and accessible introduct...

Reducere. The origins of Colorado place names offer insightful glimpses into the state s formative years. Emanuel Saltiel named his new community along the A...

Reducere. Howard Johnson created an orange-roofed empire of ice cream stands and restaurants that stretched from Maine to Florida and all the way to the West...

Reducere. Sherlock Holmes fans know about the "missing years" - the time when Holmes traveled in Asia after his epic battle with Professor Moriarity. Now, th...

This fascinating full-color book tells the complete story behind the most spectacular and innovative Roman mosaic ever found in Britain. The Boxfor...

Strange stories of Welsh mysteries, crimes, characters, achievers, inventors, folklore and legends

An alphabetical compendium of Kentish lore and localities, eccentrics and events, crimes and curiosities.

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work w...

Reducere. The Adventurous Life of a Cape Cod Dog allows the reader to experience Cape Cod's beautiful landscape, ocean, and animals through the eyes of a loc...

In the hours before dawn on June 6, 1944, an unprecedented assemblage of men, weapons, and machines swung into action. The long-awaited, highly sec...

This book examines ecology and culture in the Carpathian Mountains, with a focus on Ukraine's Galician Hutsul region from 1848 to 1939.Publisher: L...

Each of these 101 strange and curious objects from British history has an extraordinary story to tell.