The Art of Discovery: Digging Into the Past in Renaissance Europe - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Maren Elisabeth Schwab, Anthony GraftonPublish date:01/28/25Pages:328
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691237169ISBN-10:691237166UPC:9780691237169Book Category:History, ReligionBook Subcategory:Europe, Christianity, Antiquities & ArchaeologyBook Topic:Renaissance, HistorySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCJ8EMSXK7
The Art of Discovery: Digging Into the Past in Renaissance Europe
A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledge
In the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the remains of the Roman historian Livy was unearthed at a Benedictine abbey in Padua. The find was greeted with the same enthusiasm as the bones of a Christian saint, and established a pattern that...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691237169ISBN-10:691237166UPC:9780691237169Book Category:History, ReligionBook Subcategory:Europe, Christianity, Antiquities & ArchaeologyBook Topic:Renaissance, HistorySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCJ8EMSXK7
Maren Elisabeth Schwab teaches postclassical Latin and history of knowledge at the University of Kiel. She is the author of Antike begreifen. Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University. His books include Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe and Information: A Historical Companion (Princeton).
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