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Inky Fingers - The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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Inky Fingers - The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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An Open Letters Review Best Book of the Year 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
Obama, thinkers and political leaders have denounced humanists as
obsessively bookish and allergic to labor. In this celebration of
bookmaking in all its messy and intricate detail, renowned
historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early
modern Europe as diligent workers. Meticulously illuminating the
physical and mental labors that fostered the golden age of the
book-the compiling of notebooks, copying and correction of texts
and proofs, preparation of copy-he shows us how the exertions of
scholars shaped influential books, treatises, and forgeries. Inky
Fingers ranges widely, tracing the transformation of humanistic
approaches to texts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and
examining the simultaneously sustaining and constraining effects of
theological polemics on sixteenth-century scholars. Grafton draws
new connections between humanistic traditions and intellectual
innovations, textual learning and craft knowledge, manuscript and
print. Above all, Grafton makes clear that the nitty-gritty of
bookmaking has had a profound impact on the history of ideas-that
the life of the mind depends on the work of the hands.
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