Worlds Made by Words

Scholarship and Community in the Modern West

Anthony Grafton

    • Acknowledgments
    • Introduction
    1. A Sketch Map of a Lost Continent: The Republic of Letters
    2. A Humanist Crosses Boundaries: Alberti on Historia and Istoria
    3. A Contemplative Scholar: Trithemius Conjures the Past
    4. The World in a Room: Renaissance Histories of Art and Nature
    5. Where Was Salomon’s House? Ecclesiastical History and the Intellectual Origins of Bacon’s New Atlantis
    6. Chronology, Controversy, and Community in the Republic of Letters: The Case of Kepler
    7. The Universal Language: Splendors and Sorrows of Latin in the Modern World
    8. Entrepreneurs of the Soul, Impresarios of Learning: The Jesuits
    9. In No Man’s Land: Christian Learning and the Jews
    10. The History of Ideas: Precept and Practice, 1950–2000 and Beyond
    11. The Messrs. Casaubon: Isaac Casaubon and Mark Pattison
    12. Momigliano’s Method and the Warburg Institute: Studies in His Middle Period
    13. The Public Intellectual and the American University: Robert Morss Lovett
    14. The Public Intellectual and the Private Sphere: Arendt and Eichmann at the Dinner Table
    15. Codex in Crisis
    • Notes
    • Sources
    • Index
  • Cover: Worlds Made by Words
  • A photo of the author

Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Chair of the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University.