Anthony Grafton

“A vast cabinet of curiosities.”—Stephen Greenblatt“Eclectic rather than exhaustive, less an encyclopedia than a buffet.”—Frederic Raphael, Literary R

A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledgeIn the early

What do cinematic “universes,” cloud archiving, and voice cloning have in common? They’re in the business of foreverizing – the process of revitalizin

Au tournant des années 1980, alors qu'une partie de la jeunesse sombre dans l'héroïne, un étrange syndrome fait son apparition dans les hôpitaux franç

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

In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to w

This book uses broad synthesis and close textual analysis to reconstruct the kinds of books and the ways of organizing scholarly inquiry and collabora

An Open Letters Review Best Book of the Year“Grafton presents largely unfamiliar material…in a clear, even breezy style…Erudite.”—Michael Dirda, Washi

Cardano was an Italian doctor, natural philosopher, and mathematician who became a best-selling author. He was also a leading astrologer, who traffick

This book traces the relationship between humanism and science from the mid-fifteenth century to the beginning of the modern period and demonstrates t

The work of the Renaissance humanists comes to life in this exploration of European letters from the 15th to the 19th century. Grafton defines the cur

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

The close links between forgery and criticism throughout historyIn Forgers and Critics, Anthony Grafton provides a wide-ranging exploration of the lin

From the best-selling author of Cosmopolitanism comes this revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarised world are r

Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesA First World War battlefield hides a deadly secret - one that some are willing to kill forPaul Mit

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'I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language ... a very funny book' William S. Burroughs Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just l

Van de bruisende bazaars van Tabriz tot het mysterieuze eiland Caldihe, waarvan ze zeiden dat er schapen aan de bomen groeiden, brengt Anthony Bale he

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