- 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: The Book Dematerializes
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
Worlds Made by Words
Scholarship and Community in the Modern West
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Publication Date: 05/31/2011
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