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The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe focuses on the ways in which culture is moved from one generation or group to another, not by exact replication but by accretion or revision. The contributors to the volume each consider how the passing of historical information is an organic process that allows for the transformation of previously accepted truth.
The volume covers a broad and fascinating scope of subjects presented by leading scholars. Anthony Grafton's contribution on the fifteenth-century forger Annius of Viterbo emphasizes the role of imagination in the classical revival; Lisa Jardine demonstrates the way in which Erasmus helped turn a technical and rebarbative book by Rudolph Agricola into a sixteenth-century success story; Alan Charles Kors finds the roots of Enlightenment atheism in the works of French Catholic theologians; Donald R. Kelley follows the legal idea of "custom" from its formulation by the ancients to its assimilation into the modern social sciences; and Lawrence Stone shows how changes in legal action against female adultery between 1670 and 1857 reflect basic shifts in English moral values.
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Anthony Grafton is Professor of History at Princeton University. Among his many books are Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship and The Footnote: A Curious History. Ann Blair teaches history at Harvard University and is author of The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science.
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- PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0812281918
- ISBN 13 9780812281910
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages336
- EditorGrafton Anthony, Blair Ann
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 326 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. From the library of historian Sally A. Scully with her signature. "The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe focuses on the ways in which culture is moved from one generation or group to another, not by exact replication but by accretion or revision. The contributors to the volume each consider how the passing of historical information is an organic process that allows for the transformation of previously accepted truth. The volume covers a broad and fascinating scope of subjects presented by leading scholars. Anthony Grafton's contribution on the fifteenth-century forger Annius of Viterbo emphasizes the role of imagination in the classical revival; Lisa Jardine demonstrates the way in which Erasmus helped turn a technical and rebarbative book by Rudolph Agricola into a sixteenth-century success story; Alan Charles Kors finds the roots of Enlightenment atheism in the works of French Catholic theologians; Donald R. Kelley follows the legal idea of "custom" from its formulation by the ancients to its assimilation into the modern social sciences; and Lawrence Stone shows how changes in legal action against female adultery between 1670 and 1857 reflect basic shifts in English moral values." -Publisher. Near fine, with personal owner signature; in near fine(-) to vg(+) jacket. Gentle ding to rear upper outer board tip. Seller Inventory # 102747
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Condition: Gut. 326 Seiten; graph. Darst.; 23,5 cm. Gutes Exemplar; der illustr. Umschlag stw. berieben u. m. kl. Läsuren. - Englisch. - The eight essays in this volume focus on the processes by which culture is transmitted from one generation or group to another and on the implications of those processes for historiography in general. Some essays draw on the tradition of such earlier scholars as Aby Warburg, who encouraged a scholarly interest in the transmission of texts, images, and ideas especially those of the ancients as they were adapted in medieval and early modern times. Others extend this approach to the passage of ideas across barriers of class and culture in a single period to the communication of nonverbal forms of behavior like fighting, or to the ways in which unexpected sectors of a culture like its laws act as media to convey a wide set of ideas about individuals and society. The scope of this collection ranges from Anthony Grafton's essay on the fifteenth-century forger Annius of Viterbo, which shows how a little-known figure influenced Renaissance humanists' establishment of a canon of classic texts and thereby altered substantially the course of modern historiography, to Lawrence Stone's essay, which demonstrates how the growth and abandonment of one method of obtaining divorce in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England can serve as a key to changes in basic cultural values. . (Verlagstext) / INHALT : Acknowledgments ---- Introduction: Notes from Underground on Cultural Transmission Anthony Grafton ---- 1. Invention of Traditions and Traditions of Invention in Renaissance Europe: The Strange Case of Annius of Viterbo Anthony Grafton ---- 2. Inventing Rudolph Agricola: Cultural Transmission, Renaissance Dialectic, and the Emerging Humanities Lisajardine ---- 3. Cortes, Signs, and the Conquest of Mexico Inga Ckndinnen ---- 4. "Second Nature": The Idea of Custom in European Law, Society, and Culture Donald R. Kelley ---- 5. The Making of a Political Paradigm: The Ottoman State and Oriental Despotism Lucette Valensi ---- 6. Civic Chivalry and the English Civil War William Hunt ---- 7. Theology and Atheism in Early Modern France ---- Alan Charles Kors ---- 8. Honor, Morals, Religion, and the Law: The Action for Criminal Conversation in England, 1670-1857 Lawrence Stone ---- Contributors ---- Index. ISBN 0812281918 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Originalleinen mit illustr. Schutzumschlag. Seller Inventory # 1215594
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