Author: Ann Blair

The close links between forgery and criticism throughout history In Forgers and Critics, Anthony Grafton provides a wide-ranging exploration of the links between forgery and scholarship. Labeling for …

The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe focuses on the ways in which culture is moved from one generation or group to another, not by exact replication but by accretion or revision. The co …

The Theater of Nature is histoire totale of the last work of the political philosopher Jean Bodin, his Universae naturae theatrum (1596). Through Bodin’s work, Ann Blair explores the fascinating and …

This first book-length study of physico-theology questions the widespread notion of a steadily advancing early modern separation of religion and science.Beginning around 1650, the emergence of a numb …

A landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuries Thanks to modern technological advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to informati …

An illuminating exploration of the new frontiers-and unsettled geographical, temporal, and thematic borders-of early modern European history.The study of early modern Europe has long been the source …

An essential guide to the ways information has shaped and been shaped by societies Thanks to recent advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information. How did information become so cen …