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scholarship and community in the modern West
viii, 422 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Introduction -- A sketch map of a lost continent: the republic of letters -- A humanist crosses boundaries: Alberti on "historia" and "istoria" -- A contemplative scholar: Trithemius conjures the past -- The world in a room: Renaissance histories of art and nature -- Where was Salomon's house? Ecclesiastical history and the intellectual origins of Bacon's new Atlantis -- Chronology, controversy, and community in the republic of letters: the case of Kepler -- The universal language: splendors and sorrows of Latin in the modern world -- Entrepreneurs of the soul, impresarios of learning: the Jesuits -- In no man's land: Christian learning and the Jews -- The history of ideas: precept and practice, 1950-2000 and beyond -- The Messrs. Casaubon: Isaac Casaubon and Mark Pattison -- Momigliano's method and the Warburg Institute: studies in his middle period -- The public intellectual and the American university: Robert Morss Lovett -- The public intellectual and the private sphere: Arendt and Eichmann at the dinner table -- Codex in crisis: the book dematerializes -- Notes -- Sources -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-416) and index.